Head/Brickwall: advice for my Wife's job search (experience)
Discussion
Brain-pick required!!!! 
Bit of background - my wife has re-trained to move into NVQ assessing in Health & Social Care.
17yrs of NHS/private experience + NVQ3 quals, A1 assessors award and PTTLS (teaching qual)
She's still working full-time in the Nursing private sector.
However, she's fully aware that no companies will really look at her until she's got assessing experience behind her...... a chicken/egg situation.
So, she's pro-actively contacted some training centres and managed to take on (for free and in all fairness, at her own expense - travel) a few students.... just to gain the experience.
She had an interview on Monday, and basically she didn't get it due to her lack of student-experience.
She's a bit confused as to how she can possibly do any more, as she works full-time, and has done all she can (or so we think) to gain the experience with candidates......
Any suggestions on what else she can do? Is there a "trick" she's missing?
The one thing that sprung to my mind, and tbh, I don't like it as we're both people of integrity, is to embellish her CV with more experience (her one reference has eluded to this fact anyway).....
Is this an acceptable practice? I can't believe it is though!
Suggestions?
She is emailing the company back, thanking them for their time and the opportunity, and is going to ask them what she can do in order to be considered for any future positions within the company.
Any advice would be fabbo.
Dano
Bit of background - my wife has re-trained to move into NVQ assessing in Health & Social Care.
17yrs of NHS/private experience + NVQ3 quals, A1 assessors award and PTTLS (teaching qual)
She's still working full-time in the Nursing private sector.
However, she's fully aware that no companies will really look at her until she's got assessing experience behind her...... a chicken/egg situation.
So, she's pro-actively contacted some training centres and managed to take on (for free and in all fairness, at her own expense - travel) a few students.... just to gain the experience.
She had an interview on Monday, and basically she didn't get it due to her lack of student-experience.
She's a bit confused as to how she can possibly do any more, as she works full-time, and has done all she can (or so we think) to gain the experience with candidates......
Any suggestions on what else she can do? Is there a "trick" she's missing?
The one thing that sprung to my mind, and tbh, I don't like it as we're both people of integrity, is to embellish her CV with more experience (her one reference has eluded to this fact anyway).....
Is this an acceptable practice? I can't believe it is though!
Suggestions?
She is emailing the company back, thanking them for their time and the opportunity, and is going to ask them what she can do in order to be considered for any future positions within the company.
Any advice would be fabbo.
Dano
It is often the case that we have more experiences and competencies than we fully realise and thus sell ourselves short on CVs and interviews. Your wife I am sure will have supervised and mentored, if not assessed more junior health staff at some time in her career. She just needs support to help identify that and then quantify it for her CV in a way the demonstrates those competencies. Happy to help more formally if you wish to make contact via PM. Good luck!
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