Well paid job?

As it's the national minimum wage you can get paid more than that standing next to a busy road wearing a domino's pizza sign!
 
£6.08 per hour! I'd almost fly to London every day to that kind of handsome wage ;)

Loads of tech jobs over hear are the same - you must have a quality degree, 2 years of top class experience, be willing to bend over backwards on hours and we'll pay a whole fifteen grand :rolleyes: I feel sorry for people job hunting :(
 
The sad thing is some people who can't even get on the job ladder, may be considering that :o

Although afaik Computer Science still has the highest number of graduates getting employment within 6 months?
 
Haydz said:
The sad thing is some people who can't even get on the job ladder, may be considering that :o

Although afaik Computer Science still has the highest number of graduates getting employment within 6 months?
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I'm pretty sure Medicine is still top, looking at uni league tables 100% get a job within 6 months.
 
I think employers expect too much in general, there should be laws that say they have to accept someone unqualified now and then to make things fair, a bit like with other kinds of discrimination.
 
Say what you want about underpaid IT jobs, they're gateways to often very lucrative niche markets. Getting exposure to enterprise applications and system frameworks is invaluable. I work in systems development, started at 16 working as an apprentice administrator in HR working for their systems team earning £6,000 a year and now I'm 23 earning £50k a year in an industry where you can quite easily snap up 6-12-18 month contract work for £500-1k a day if you wanted to make the switch.

There's a lot of technically minded people out there cramming themselves into first line support because they feel it best suits their skill set, when in fact if they took the risk and explored new technical territory they'd realise it's just as straight forward and full of development opportunities.

Now it just seems like I posted that job :p to provide counter-balance, yes it does seem very underpaid. But I'd do it over working at Tesco or wearing a sign any day of the week, and there's a lot of us techys doing that!
 
Sawell said:
Say what you want about underpaid IT jobs, they're gateways to often very lucrative niche markets. Getting exposure to enterprise applications and system frameworks is invaluable. I work in systems development, started at 16 working as an apprentice administrator in HR working for their systems team earning £6,000 a year and now I'm 23 earning £50k a year in an industry where you can quite easily snap up 6-12-18 month contract work for £500-1k a day if you wanted to make the switch.

There's a lot of technically minded people out there cramming themselves into first line support because they feel it best suits their skill set, when in fact if they took the risk and explored new technical territory they'd realise it's just as straight forward and full of development opportunities.

Now it just seems like I posted that job :p to provide counter-balance, yes it does seem very underpaid. But I'd do it over working at Tesco or wearing a sign any day of the week, and there's a lot of us techys doing that!
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So making a comparison at 16 you had this level of qualification and experience.

Qualifications and Experience:
* Degree in computer science, information technology or engineering
* Must have installed, worked with and maintained Virtual Servers, Microsoft (MS) server and desktop technologies and Linux; MS Exchange, Active Directory, MS 2008 Windows Servers, Linux Server, MS SQL & MS SharePoint, backup, firewall and security.
* MSCE qualified if possible
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And with that level of qualification and experience you would be willing to accept minimum wage?

Personally I'd rather starve :)
 
Haydz said:
The sad thing is some people who can't even get on the job ladder, may be considering that :o

Although afaik Computer Science still has the highest number of graduates getting employment within 6 months?
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its like 75-90% depending where you get your degree from (excluding some of the awful unis)
 
Djwayne said:
So making a comparison at 16 you had this level of qualification and experience.



And with that level of qualification and experience you would be willing to accept minimum wage?

Personally I'd rather starve :)
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I barely pay attention to the 'required' elements of a job posting anyway, let alone at minimum wage. Nearly every job I've ever had has required me to meet criteria I didn't match, my last one wanted me to speak German. It's just something you learn to brush off when you understand the market and how recruitment/IT works (perhaps I'm lucky since I work in HR IT so understand both). Don't ever be put off or swayed by the 'essential/desired' section of a job description. It's there to sift out useless people. The more you match the better, but it's very hard to find people who match everything, employers know this.

Besides which, at 16 I was earning half the salary of that job and I was very happy to take it. At 18 I was earning maybe 10-11k.
 
They'll fill that easily - it's better than no job after all.

However, whilst they may fill it easily, I'll be suprised if they retail any candidates for more than 4 weeks as they'll continue looking for jobs and leave as soon as they find another.
 
Its more than I get paid now :o

But then I don't live in london and im only part time in a different job role....but still its over a £ more.
 
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