No luck finding a job, sigh

How is your CV?

I've blacked out the personal details, e.g. Name/Address/Contact details/schools

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Personally for the GCSEs I would just write '11 A*-C grades at GCSE including Mathematics and English'.
Also your CV looks decent to me, maybe its the layout?

It looks like you've applied for role in a bunch large businesses. How about working at a sole trader, such as a fish and chip shop, convenience store or a barbers? I live in Birmingham too and i don't really know anyone who has found it difficult to find a mediocre job. I know for a fact that many young people work in McDonalds and Pizza Hut.

Frankly working with a sole trader would probably be better - you get to build a relationship with the manager/owner and things like wages and hours are a lot easier to discuss/change.

I am only 16 and working at a local fish and chip shop - and I earn £7/h.

I notice lots of grammar mistakes in your CV. Maybe proofread and sort them out might help a little.

if you don't mind, could you post some of the stuff? English isn't my greatest subject


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Penultimate sentence of personal statement is a fragment, not a full sentence.

Random capital G on Greeted.

Some of your bullet points are not sentences but others are. Fragments are OK in bullet points but be consistent.

Random semi-colon in one bullet point.

Your "doing" is redundant wrt your A level (you already mentioned studying and that verb still applies later in the sentence).

I notice lots of grammar mistakes in your CV. Maybe proofread and sort them out might help a little.

I've blacked out the personal details, e.g. Name/Address/Contact details/schools

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Bit conflicting with the person above, but I think first person is fine. There's not really another way to say a lot of things. I've written in first person for all my CVs that got me jobs.

Your CV looks fine, it is a bit wordy and can be significantly cut down in places, which might make employers overlook some important detail because they can't be bothered to read it all. Do you have any other experience from school you can add (even voluntary, like e.g. a school prefect or sports team captain that you can add under 'other positions of responsibility' or similar?) which would help bulk it out?

My main recommendation would be to write a different personal statement for each role you apply to - e.g. emphasise if your previous sales assistant role is in a sector very relevant to a job you're applying, say why you want to work for certain companies. Emphasise your experience in customer service and communication with different groups of people in your personal statement which you don't really do at the moment, but that will be the key thing they're looking for.

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1 major error on your CV

You talk in the first person, employers don't like that (my boss himself told me this and I've come across it a lot online too).

Apart from that

Also

It's too bland, add a bit of colour, something which will stick out. Only include skills/qualifications which are relevant to the field you want to be in.

Small details like your computer capabilities, driving license and if you own your own vehicles also go a long way.

Good luck.

How would you recommend approaching them, just asking if they have any vacancies and hand in my CV?