Oct
29
I’m Marketing Specialist With 10 Years Experience, But I Can’t Get A Job In Marketing In London?
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I arrrived to London 3 years ago and all those 3 years I was looking hard for a marketing job. I have 10 years experience in marketing (in Lithuania), 2 master degree (marketing and HR), I can speak 5 languages, my CV is really good. Its everything looks right to get a job, but I just can’t get it! I’m working as a butler for 2 years and really feel that I just loosing my experience.
I went to many interviews, but employee just said to me that I’m overqualified or my accent is to strong and so on. I’m applying for a job on internet, as well I sign up with some agencies, but its looks its not good as well.
Please help me with finding a right solution.
Thank you all.
Asta
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7 Responses to “I’m Marketing Specialist With 10 Years Experience, But I Can’t Get A Job In Marketing In London?”
Like the guy said – you are too overqualified and your accent is too strong.
Try to work on those problems first.
Go to a speech therapist in the meantime.
Otherwise, dumb down your CV. You can say you have experience, but don’t say ten years unless the ask. Just say a couple years. (Ten Years sounds like a veteran, while most companies aren’t looking to “retrain” someone to fit their company profile.)
You might also want to work on your appearance… sometimes pushing the polite, ladylike behavior and nanny look in London really helps.
well if they are telling you that you are overqualified shoot for the major companies…ya know increase your standardsand what you are looking for
look dear it depends on urs curicity that how much u r serious abt. to get the job in London so first of all judge urs weak points then remove those if feel if u r having the experience of 10 years so there is not posibilities that u r not capable to get jon there so try more and more http://www.searchenginerankings.com.au
I would seek out a position with multi national firms…it sounds like you’ve interviewed with domestic firms and from what I’ve read, the UK is becoming very xenophobic and anti-immigrant at least for domestic consumption.
Seek a firm that will value your international abilities…
Asta,have you tried job websites like Hotjobs,Monster, Careerbuilder and Craigslist? More information at http://tinyurl.com/emdyn
Even if you are applying for marketing jobs and have that much experience, think about applying for some advertising/ relations positions as well. Sometimes those two areas go hand in hand, and sometimes even the duties are the same. Your experience will get you plenty of $$$ when you find the right fit, good luck!
After reading your message,I feel that you have great talents but lack of direction.You have been looking for solution.But the fact is that you have the solution.Here is the thing to evaluate within yourself.You said you have 10 years of marketing experience and are consistently looking to get a job.Why not use your marketing skills towards having your own home based business,use your talents in your own business and make profits rather then give your talents for someonelse.I have being teaching people to help in establishing their own home based businesses to get them on the track.Think again.
Besides companies donot want to pay a good salary to more qualified people because they can find less talented people to do all kind of job with less pay.Why you want to degrade yourself to a low job when you have a great talent and experience to use for yourself and profit.If this sound something interesting,drop me a line to get more information at ppandya_1@yahoo.com
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