Forgot how bad job searching was :(

Delvis · 19 Jul 2010 at 11:13

HangTime said:
£15k isn't that uncommon for an internship (which typically pay less than fullon graduate jobs), if you impress you'll probably be at the front of the queue for any permanent positions that become available.

Also the games industry is notoriously badly paid at the bottom end.

I've always wanted to be in the games industry for some reason...God knows why

Mr.Stu · 19 Jul 2010 at 18:27

Title pretty much sums it up for me at the moment.

Returned from Canada after 2 years away from the industry (IT/Networking/Cisco/MS) approx 6 weeks ago to the day. Fast forward to today, ~400 applications, 6 interviews, zero job. Looking like I'm going to have to retrain myself. 2 years of beer and snowboarding seems to have altered my memory somewhat....

Struggling to keep my chin up and considering other industries or dissappearing overseas again - perhaps to teach English in East Asia.

Ev0 · 19 Jul 2010 at 18:30

I'm getting calls about jobs, but they all seem to be in areas of the country I don't really want to move to!

I'm in Devon and have had a great job come up, they want to interview me, but they are in London

I know the job involves a lot of travelling so time in the office probably isn't that high, but not sure what to do. Is pretty much an ideal job for me though

My hope is there can be an element of home working when not visiting customer sites...

And before people say then why did you apply for it, most of these ones just had 'UK' or 'South West' as the area on the ads

mollymoo · 19 Jul 2010 at 18:38

Second interview, got job, I managed this by diversifying slightly and ended up with a better job in a better position than I originally went for, so it's doable.

Guest2 · 20 Jul 2010 at 12:28

I went in today and signed on for the first time. I had filled out about 7 or 8 things i have done to find work and the woman glanced at it for 1 second, I said I rang about interview feedback and have another interview next week. I was out in under a minute. Easy but kind of discusting it is how easy it would be for people to claim JS and not bother even looking for work.

Lets hope my interview goes well that im having next week. I have already researched the company and role but will get more info the days before

-Ad- · 20 Jul 2010 at 13:32

Sukh said:
Hey, good luck, the jobs is a good'un if you can get a grad role. I'm guessing the job is for Tax over at their Theale office? They have been having problems getting people and are recruiting really late this year.

Then leave once qualified as you won't get the recognition and pay rises.

Friend of mine at EY was talking to me about this reasonably. Top of his year, so gets a small pay rise after loads of slogging, but then those standard people on much lower pay get a massive hike up to his level.

Use your contacts then move onwards and upwards is the only way.

Ewanb75 · 20 Jul 2010 at 14:37

Applied for a job a few weeks ago, got an email saying I had an interview, had that this morning at half 9, was told if i was successful i would be contacted in a day or two. Come half 10 i got a call sayin I had it.

Only part time, but its another job.

Delvis · 21 Jul 2010 at 10:56

Guest2 said:
I went in today and signed on for the first time. I had filled out about 7 or 8 things i have done to find work and the woman glanced at it for 1 second, I said I rang about interview feedback and have another interview next week. I was out in under a minute. Easy but kind of discusting it is how easy it would be for people to claim JS and not bother even looking for work.

Lets hope my interview goes well that im having next week. I have already researched the company and role but will get more info the days before

Well...you're supposed to go back every couple of weeks or something with a card detailing what you've done each day?

But yes, its sad how you can just walk in and claim

Guest2 · 21 Jul 2010 at 11:00

Delvis said:
Well...you're supposed to go back every couple of weeks or something with a card detailing what you've done each day?

That was the card I have been filling in, she glanced at it, got me to sign and I was out before my appointment time.

Delvis · 21 Jul 2010 at 11:07

Aye, you could write any old jargon in there

drone · 21 Jul 2010 at 11:31

Delvis said:
Well...you're supposed to go back every couple of weeks or something with a card detailing what you've done each day?

But yes, its sad how you can just walk in and claim

That won't last trust me I've been signing on for a month now and they soon start hammering you

Delvis · 21 Jul 2010 at 11:33

drone said:
That won't last trust me I've been signing on for a month now and they soon start hammering you

I gave up with them, how can they find you a job, with no CV, no qualification list??? Just 'IT Technician' lol...its ridiculous.

Never got anything out of them interview wise

firefilesuk · 21 Jul 2010 at 12:55

Guest2 said:
That was the card I have been filling in, she glanced at it, got me to sign and I was out before my appointment time.

Its not allways that straight forward though sometimes i've been there upto 45 minutes just wating and waiting if its quite busy, got some cheek once about a mobile phone, (yeah guess who pays the bill

).

I'm tempted to write 'bet you cant be bothered to read this' in one of the job diaries but dont think i will, i have plenty of old ones though so just 'recycle' the data :cool:

firefilesuk · 21 Jul 2010 at 12:59

drone said:
That won't last trust me I've been signing on for a month now and they soon start hammering you

They dont really during the first 12 months, after 12 you go to an external provider and when you sign on the ask you who the provider is, mines A4E the one from the programme on channel 4 'fairy job mother'

if they spent 30 minutes with each person everytime you signed on they would have to reduce the JSA by a stupid ammount to pay for all the extra staff, my advisor had a list of about 40 people for that days sign on.

Senture · 21 Jul 2010 at 13:07

firefilesuk said:
They dont really during the first 12 months, after 12 you go to an external provider and when you sign on the ask you who the provider is, mines A4E the one from the programme on channel 4 'fairy job mother'

if they spent 30 minutes with each person everytime you signed on they would have to reduce the JSA by a stupid ammount to pay for all the extra staff, my advisor had a list of about 40 people for that days sign on.

Same here. Been looking for work for 6 months now with zero success up until now. Had one interview on Monday, that was an epic failure. Second one today went well and I got the job. Catch? 8 week internship, zero pay, travel expenses paid in arrears and with only £20 a week to live on after giving my dad over half my weekly money, I some how have to budget in £16.60 for a weekly bus pass with all my other bills. What kind of **** poor programme is this

Drake5 · 27 Jul 2010 at 20:48

Hi guys,

I could do with some advice please.

I am now 3 months unemployed and it doesn't feel like I'm going to get a job any time soon.

I have been sending CV's out, applying for vacancies, the usual. On average I'd say I send about 10 CV's out a week however I never hear anything back and so far I've only had one interview from them all.

I'm considering going on to some sort of training scheme probably doing something I've never done before but am interested in.

Have any of you here done this before? Gone on to a training scheme to try and learn some new skills?

Most of the training schemes I've looked at offer NVQ's, not brilliant but they've got to help.

Delvis · 27 Jul 2010 at 20:55

firefilesuk said:
They dont really during the first 12 months, after 12 you go to an external provider and when you sign on the ask you who the provider is, mines A4E the one from the programme on channel 4 'fairy job mother'

if they spent 30 minutes with each person everytime you signed on they would have to reduce the JSA by a stupid ammount to pay for all the extra staff, my advisor had a list of about 40 people for that days sign on.

Yeah great...exactly why every tom dick and harry on this planet gets JSA basically

Morba · 27 Jul 2010 at 20:58

Have you looked further afield than your local area?
Also, what jobs are there lots of adverts for but aren't being filled? Might be worth seeing what courses you could do to fill one of those positions

Drake5 · 27 Jul 2010 at 21:03

Morba said:
Have you looked further afield than your local area?
Also, what jobs are there lots of adverts for but aren't being filled? Might be worth seeing what courses you could do to fill one of those positions

I haven't really. I've been looking at about 15 miles, but I don't want to travel too far as I'd have to rely on public transport.

And thanks for the tip, I'll do some research to see what courses would be even more of a benefit to me.

Morba · 27 Jul 2010 at 21:16

Ah public transport can be a limiter especially when cost comes into it