Originally posted by captain
Australia is the same. You send out CV's and they send you NOTHING in return. Not even a "thanks, but no thanks"

Manners "died" in the 60's!!!
Too right ... my partner was unemployed for over a year (he is a qualified I.T technician, and not only that, an absolute genius with computers!) and he sent out about 10 job applications a day.

That's around 3,000 job applications!

Interviews? 3
Return letters? 20 (approx)
Phone calls? 10 (approx)

You do the math!!! In the end I just got him a job at Telstra when I was working there...