Gone are the days of scoffing at jobs that don't come with a certain amount of street cred.
In the current climate, securing employment successfully brings with it all the credibility you need to show a future employer you're worth employing.
But it's still important to pitch yourself at the right level.
The 8,000 jobs Best Buy are looking to fill over the next five years will offer supervisory and management opportunities as well as retail assistant positions.
While there will be a big scramble to fill those retail assistant roles, someone, for example, made redundant from a call centre team leader position could promote their skills in customer service and staff supervision to land one of these roles.
Unfortunately, these jobs leave little in the way of hope for recently unemployed accountants and IT specialists, who would not only find it difficult to promote their skills as making them suitable for retail management, but would also struggle to convince an employer that they'd stay on in the long term, once the jobs market has picked up.
Apply for jobs selectively, rather than using a splatter-gun approach. It means you'll conserve your recruitment energy for the positions you have a chance of getting.
