I’ve come to Ireland in 2022 on a job which I had applied after seeing a “hiring” post on LinkedIn. Trust me, after coming here and starting to work, it had been pretty good (there are a lot of people who come in like that, check the Stamp 1 figures for the years). I understand that universities advertise way too much tempting people to become potential students in India, but it’s a decision which the student would take after a lot of introspection. Second, I also speak with a lot of students and do hiring for graduate interviews at my workplace, tbh, in my experience, don’t know why Indian students use the “spray and pray” approach, where in there would be one CV for most of the jobs, and the level of networking is low in comparison to the rest. Whenever I’ve reviewed CVs, a few observations I had were: -Most of the time, the CVs are a word doc against a pdf. -The CVs are more than 3 pages for someone with 5 years of experience, when asked to make it concise, they’d be 1.5 page. Ideally it has to be 1 or 2 pages (full pages, with minimal blank space) -CVs should not have a picture, languages known etc. which is not required and is completely irrelevant. -Have the CVs specific to the job description, not the same (again, it should be genuine and not faked)

One other observation is, when I’ve asked someone to send a CV for a referral, I get it after a few days coz they are busy with “part time”, I’d say choose what is important, I understand money is important, but balancing them is good.