Too good for the job

[Amp34]

For the lols I once applied to Lidl, they wrote back saying I was not what they're looking for. Going by the expressions on the faces of the sole member of staff I ever see working at my local Lidl I see they are looking for zombies instead of someone who could work any part time hours to make some extra cash and lives a few houses away from that store!

Yep, it's a catch 22 for graduates, especially at the moment. You can't get a part time/braindead job because you have a degree and they expect you to leave as soon as you find something better (which is true tbh), yet you can't find the better jobs because you don't have enough experience...

I'm pretty certain that if the christmas temp job was permanent I wouldn't have got it, being the only candidate that had a degree!

Fun, Fun, Fun...

 

[r3loaded]

yet you can't find the better jobs because you don't have enough experience...

This. How the bloody hell am I meant to have "experience" if I'm not even given the opportunity to get some?!

Internships appear to be a complete washout this year too, just like last year. Applied to like 12 different programmes, only 3 even had the decency to send an e-mail acknowledging that my application is being processed :/

 

[mrk]

I got a job today!

Got a call at 10am for an interview at 4PM, I got confirmation before 5PM that I had the job and start tomorrow at 9am doing internal IT support and hardware maintenance (AD/Servers/Mobile comms etc).

The company turned down some people they interviewed last week because those people were overqualified and wanted much more than the company was willing to offer!

GREAT SUCCESS!

 

[Sem]

I got a job today!

Got a call at 10am for an interview at 4PM, I got confirmation before 5PM that I had the job and start tomorrow at 9am doing internal IT support and hardware maintenance (AD/Servers/Mobile comms etc).

The company turned down some people they interviewed last week because those people were overqualified and wanted much more than the company was willing to offer!

GREAT SUCCESS!

well congratulations

i hope i am as successful with my 2 interviews in the coming weeks

 

[Rameses]

Well having read the OP would it not have been clear to the interviewer' that your there because you want the job? Even if he thought you were too clever for the job?

I guess I'd have been stumped as what to say back, but thats easy in hindsight!

I wouldn't worry about it!!!

 

[Amp34]

This. How the bloody hell am I meant to have "experience" if I'm not even given the opportunity to get some?!

Internships appear to be a complete washout this year too, just like last year. Applied to like 12 different programmes, only 3 even had the decency to send an e-mail acknowledging that my application is being processed :/

I actually got an internship the year before last (between my second and third year) when our careers fair had about two dozen companies come to it (where I found out about the internship) yet that hasn't helped. Quite telling though that last years and this years careers fairs had about 6 companies turn up...

What sector are you interested in? I know part of the problem with me finding a proper job at the moment is the collapse in oil prices a couple of years ago and the dip in the oil/gas industry, which collapsed just before I graduated... I'm pretty certain if I had been in the year above and graduated in 2008 I would have got a job almost straight away.

 

[stoke1863]

Classic case of a superior being scared that there employee knows more than then. Thus insuring job security by not hiring,


Happens at our place

 

[HarryPainful]

I had something similar to this once, went to an interview for an IT related job and had one of the best interviews i have done (normally bad at these kinda things) and the guy at the end just said

"I would love to hire you but we already have someone for the job, I just wanted to see if you were interested and how you would do in the interview"

I was like

Told him after that, he just wasted my time and its no way for a manager to act, clearly showing my rage at him.

I would have ripped him a new one tbh.

And to the OP, yet, been there done that

 

[HarryPainful]

It isnt, really. 2 months ago I started my new job which involves a LOT of SQL. I'm suprised at how much of it I'm picking it up, given that all I knew when I started (And they knew this) was what it stood for and what it could be used for.

This.

It's actually pretty simple unless you want to do some crazy programming or faff around with complex clustering.

 

[r3loaded]

What sector are you interested in? I know part of the problem with me finding a proper job at the moment is the collapse in oil prices a couple of years ago and the dip in the oil/gas industry, which collapsed just before I graduated... I'm pretty certain if I had been in the year above and graduated in 2008 I would have got a job almost straight away.

Finance.....that prolly explains everything

 

[mrk]

Well good luck to you guys tbh, it's hard finding a new job, I've been searching for almost 2 months!

Today though I got a call about another job that's moments away from the place I just started at. My current one starts as a temp but goes on to be permanent but with these things you never do really know but either way I am going to call back and find out more about it and make a wise decision on what to do.

Permanency of the job I just got relies on the new finance manager not being very IT savvy because the one who is leaving in 3 weeks is and my manager has said today that finding a finance manager who knows their IT is hard so my position is quite secure most likely although I should still not discount the worst happening!