Once you stop viewing secretarial recruitment agencies as blood sucking leeches and see them as the people with the contacts in the right places, you are onto a winner and can put your job searching on speed.

Design your CV as well as you can.

Search for a secretarial recruitment agency, just like you would any other contacts search, use linked in or another business network to call up specialists in your area.

Hit their website and see if they come across as specialists and professionals of secretarial recruitment.

Choose 2-3 secretarial recruitment agencies you would like to work with.

Send your CV into your chosen secretarial recruitment agencies.

Be careful not to work with too many secretarial recruitment agencies or they will all present you for the same job, this looks unprofessional and desperate.

Follow up your presentation with a call. Yes call in, make friends, get touchy feely, get them to speak with you and profile you in advance. Ask questions about the telecoms employment market and ask directly for CV feedback. I can promise you that while secretarial recruitment agencies receive 1000s of CVs in every single day, very few admin secretarial job applicants take the time to actually call in and introduce themselves, they just wait to be found. But how does that headhunt happen? More often than not it's not just because of a machine searching through a database it's a person sitting down and thinking about who they know, in their own contacts first. So if you are a recent, opportunistic admin secretarial job applicant, you are guaranteed to spring to mind. It's the guaranteed quickest route into a short lists.

After you have been submitted to a short list for an admin secretarial job, keep closely in contact with your secretarial recruitment agencies, cooperate with them and fit in as much as possible.

Starting up a good relationship now will pay you back in the future, the better your relationship with your secretarial recruitment agencies, the more information they will tell you:

• This can provide you with insider tips that other admin secretarial job applicants don't have.
• This can get you ahead of other Candidates.
• Your secretarial recruitment agencies will be more inclined to spend time preparing you for interview, if they actually like you.
• They will keep you up to date with the entire process.