I’ve applied for a part-time role in the university where I want to study, working in the college where I will be a student.  It is the same role as I did in my last job, I have all the ‘essentials’ and the only desirable I don’t have is ‘worked in Higher Eduction before’.

I hope to get short-listed for interview.  If I do, it will be a novelty.  Once upon a time if I submitted an application for a role, I got an interview.  Now I submit dozens and hear nothing.  This is particularly worrying when one has all the essentials, desirables and relevant experience.  I must be doing something wrong.

When I was doing recruitment I had the chance to see the current trends in applications, the current jargon to use and the fashion for answers.  I see none of that now.