Backchat - Customer quotes

• Sent: 23 October 2009 10:07
• To: Simon Flockton
• Subject: Your personal action plan

Thank you Simon

I enjoyed the course very much. I also learnt a surprising number of common sense (the type you know is common sense only when you hear it) tips and hints and a long list of pitfalls that now I do not need to step into. Let's put it this way – if my next job depended solely on the contents of my CV and/or my preparation for an interview I would not have any problems now thanks to Mairead's to the point, patient and helpful delivery yesterday.

Thanks for the follow-up too

Regards

Nigel McLeod

• Sent: 19 October 2009 12:39
• To: Heather Hardie
• Subject: CV Workshop

Dear Heather

I wanted to thank you for last weeks CV session (I was in the Tuesday afternoon group).

The advice you gave was excellent, and I found that I had really improved my interview technique and confidence in time for my interview on Thursday. So much so that I have a second stage this Wednesday!

I really found the entire process very helpful. Thank you for your time.

Regards

George Whitelaw

• Sent: 12 October 2009 17:01
• To: Heather Hardie
• Subject: CV advice Session

Hi Heather,

Thank you for the time and effort you put into delivering the employability session on preparing CVs. It was educational and enjoyable. I picked up useful aspects that will help in rewriting CV.

Kindest regards

James Allassani

• Sent: 12 October 2009 10:42
• To: Heather Hardie
• Subject: Update

Hi Heather

Hope you had a wonderful weekend. First of all I would like to thank you very much for your help and advice in my job search. Last week, I applied for 3 roles advertised on the website and within minutes received calls from the respective agencies asking me to come and register with them. This came as a real surprise to me as before my sessions with you I did not receive any responses, either by phone or email to the jobs I applied for. I believe my newly formatted CV and your expert advice on cover letters seem to be working. Now, I wait eagerly for the agencies to line up interviews for me.

Best regards

Roohi Shaikh

• Sent: 05 October 2009 11:53
• To: Cara Deane
• Subject: Touching Base

Hi Cara

Just writing to tell you exciting news- hired on spot at interview Friday night - starting full time Monday 12th... salary is amazing so I'm over the moon but sorry I am not available for you anymore... :( once again always a pleasure working for you and GY... I am constantly recommending you guys and talking you UP as you are the best agency I have come across in London and believe me, I have registered with countless ones!! I would love to remain in touch with you Cara, my shining star... thanks again for all your help!

Warm regards,

Belinda Bishop

• Sent: 02 October 2009 13:29
• To: Heather Hardie
• Subject: RE: Finding Us the Right Person

Hi Heather

Brilliant – thanks again for your help on this hire – faultless as always!

Catch up when I get back.

Cheers

Jodie Smith
The Climate Group

• Sent: 01 October 2009 09:50
• To: Mairead Barden
• Subject: regarding your workshop, need a little help please
• Importance: High

Hi Mairead

I attended your workshop group on Monday morning, since then I applied your techniques into my job search and have so far 1 interview next Monday and maybe a 2nd as well. So I would like to say thank you to you and your team, you're doing an excellent job.

Warm Regards

Haroon Rashid

• Sent: 30 September 2009 17:03
• To: Mairead Barden
• Subject: Interview

Hi Mairead,

Thanks for the interview tips, I managed to get a second interview with the firm which I went to today. Thanks for all your help. I shall keep you posted!

Best regards,

Jenisa Thumbadoo

• Sent: 24 September 2009 11:44
• To: Cara Deane
• Subject: THANK YOU!!

Hi Cara

I attended the CV and cover letter seminar on Monday. I would like to say a MASSIVE thank you as since I attended I re-wrote my CV and cover note and now I have an interview. Again thank you so much for your help.

Kind regards

Kelly O'Keefe

• Sent: 18 September 2009 12:51
• To: Cara Deane
• Subject: Re: Gordon Yates Training Follow Up

Your training must have been fairly effective, because I have a job now.

CV workshop was very helpful. Immediately rewriting my CV and reposting on various job sites my phone started to ring. Interviews - having prepared questions and a technique to answer competency based questions was very useful.

Dave Coote

• Sent: 16 September 2009 13:10
• To: Lucy Wilson
• Subject: Re: Ester Shem-Tov - Personal Action Plan

Thank you for forwarding the completed job plan. I will be contacting the session leader, Heather, individually, but wanted to say I found the afternoon very informative and well run.

I've come away better equipped to face the tough job market. Heather introduced new job searching techniques and useful websites and was truly motivating in her approach.

I will let you all know how it goes.

Kind regards

Ester Shem-Tov

• Sent: 11 September 2009 15:20
• To: Mairead Barden
• Subject: Thank you

Dear Mairéad

Thank you so much for your time yesterday at the seminar in Hammersmith. It was very helpful and I thought you did an incredible job of dealing with a diverse group of people with very different needs.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards,

Sascha Hecks

• Sent: 11 September 2009 12:47
• To: Cara Deane
• Subject: RE: Training

Hi Cara

Thank you so much for the guidance provided yesterday in you session. It is great to know there's an agency out there to help with innovating new ideas to allow people to stand out amongst the crowd.

Best regards,

Amara Khokhar

• Sent: 09 September 2009 10:14
• To: Heather Hardie
• Subject: RE: Personal Action Plan

Hello Heather

I enjoyed the training very much and amended my CV accordingly.

I am happy to say that I have an interview on Monday where I am planning to put into practice all interview techniques that Mairead taught us on the day.

Thanks for assistance.

Regards

Maria Moreno

• Sent: 09 September 2009 12:23
• To: Sarah Mustafa
• Subject: Monday's course

Hello Sarah

Lovely meeting you on Monday. I learnt lots on the course. My new CV has given me some results already. I have an interview tomorrow and another one on Tuesday.

Many thanks

Teresa Ballonga

• Sent: 03 September 2009 10:32
• To: Claire Pickerill
• Subject: Thank you

Dear Claire

I wanted to take this opportunity thank you again for all your useful tips and information at the workshop yesterday. Approximately an hour after I left the workshop, I was called for a preliminary interview with a company over the phone and I felt really calm and relaxed while doing it. I also used the STAR technique to illustrate my points when asked about transferable skills and have been asked to come to a second interview. Thank you so much.

Kindest regards,

Stephanie Agyeman

• Sent: 28 August 2009 16:48
• To: Claire Harrop
• Subject: Re: Job search support Follow-up

Dear Claire

Thanks a lot for your e-mail! Your workshop was very useful, especially the part about covering letters. The part about CVs was useful as was the covering letter one. As a matter of fact I just got reception job. It's been a week since I started my new job. Please continue your workshops and I wish you all the best.

Best Regards

Violeta Sabonyte