I finished uni about 9 months ago, with an economics degree and since then I've been applying to some of the jobs I really want to do, and after some stupidly long and slow processes they were unsuccessful (these were very competitive, and I wasn't really ready for it) now in the mean time I have been looking for some alternative short to medium term jobs with pretty much no success.
I have applied to loads, but nothing seems to work out, I even got rejected by Sainsbury's. Part of the problem is I don't really want to do the jobs I'm applying for, all I can find are sales or recruitment roles, which brings me to my first question: where can I find roles that are not in sales? I'm loooking on Reed, Indeed, Totaljobs, etc but there doesn't seem to be much choice. Is there somewhere else to look?
(I applied for a sales role and was unsuccessful, and the company directly offered me a conference producer role in the firm but was later unsuccessful with the next stage for that)
My next question is really how do I come across better in [phone] interviews? I've read some articles/thread/stickies and tried to incorporate those tips but that is by far my weakest point. Companies always seem very impressed with my initial application, then it just flops off from there.
I forgot to add, I am now thinking about doing a masters degree in computer science this year, as there seem to be loads of computer based jobs, and I would enjoy that more, but I am not certain about the value of doing it.