Forgot how bad job searching was :(

Street said:
Well after there being absolutely no jobs about for the last month, I checked for new ones when I got back to work this week.. There was one there and I applied for it, they phoned me back straight away and I've got an interview next week! :D

Hope I get it as its about 15 miles closer to my home, less hours and £4k more per year than my current job! :)
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Schweet :)

Whats that doing my I ask? The new one
 
Delvis said:
Nice one :)

Go to the interview, see what the job is all about...

What is the job title out of interest?
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Data Co-ordinator - Flow Survey

It's for a large international water company but role is more to do with analysing data and IT work.

Starting salary is £15k but that is pretty much equal to what I am getting now but like I said, its permanent just has slightly odd hours.

Going to have a drive over there at the weekend to so I know what the crack is with getting there. Then again, with those hours I mentioned you would completely be missing the traffic so thats good.

Ah well, not had an interview for a while so its all good practice. ;)

Hows your job going by the way? :)
 
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After 2months without work, i finally landed myself another fulltime job today.

Working in a hotel managing the gym, spa and pool area.

45 hours a week, 9 - 5 mon - fri, i get full access to all facilities. start on £7.44 an hour.

Good thing is the hotel is 25mins away so commuting isnt a problem.
 
You think Job hunting is bad?
I've got TWO jobs I cant give away at the moment, 45 hours per week, 20k basic + commision, pension and company sick pay.
Nobody wants them, makes you wonder just how much people actually do want to work.

Well it doesnt really, 13+ years of Labour giving people everything they need to sit on their arse doing **** all means there is a huge number of people under 30 who simply have no concept of work.
 
sr4470 said:
What are the requirements? Seems to be good to be true, if my last job was any indication.
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Driving a 7.5t truck delivering food to various places, commision is paid once the value of stock delivered exceeds a certain value, basically translates as, have a busy day, get paid more.
Its with one of the largest companies in europe as well.
 
atpbx said:
Driving a 7.5t truck delivering food to various places, commision is paid once the value of stock delivered exceeds a certain value, basically translates as, have a busy day, get paid more.
Its with one of the largest companies in europe as well.
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I don't have the right licence, would this be a problem?
 
atpbx said:
Driving a 7.5t truck delivering food to various places, commision is paid once the value of stock delivered exceeds a certain value, basically translates as, have a busy day, get paid more.
Its with one of the largest companies in europe as well.
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I dont suppose that's anywhere near the midlands by any chance.
 
atpbx said:
Yes, because you couldnt drive the lorry, the parent company is looking into funding training fot the right candidates if the situation doesnt improve.
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Having done a quick search, the training\licence would cost me £1k...to be blunt I don't have that kind of money, so I could only apply if they were willing to fund the training. I do have knowledge of domestic freight operations from my time working in warehouses, if that helps.
 
sr4470 said:
Having done a quick search, the training\licence would cost me £1k...to be blunt I don't have that kind of money, so I could only apply if they were willing to fund the training.
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As I said, they are looking in to it.

A result of yet more short sighted legislation I am afraid, there is now only a small percentage of people under the age of 30 with the required license as it is something you would have to make a conscious choice to take the license rather than have it as an entitlement and be able to fall back on it.
 
atpbx said:
As I said, they are looking in to it.

A result of yet more short sighted legislation I am afraid, there is now only a small percentage of people under the age of 30 with the required license as it is something you would have to make a conscious choice to take the license rather than have it as an entitlement and be able to fall back on it.
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Well the age was lowered from 21 to 18, so the cost is the barrier, and as an 18 year old I didn't have £1k to spend on any kind of training, so I got into work that didn't require that cost. I see these freight driving jobs advertised all the time, so I suspect the existing base of trained drivers already have enough work.

I'm afraid I haven't driven freight before, as I said the closest I've gotten to that is prepping deliveries on the warehouse floor and handing them over to the drivers.

Since you keep banging on about the under 30s, tell me, who is the one with the entitlement complex? The company supposedly offering £20k who won't spend £1k on training the right person, or me, someone who'd do the work if they could afford the certification? Clearly they aren't that desperate for staff then.

I don't live in Lincolnshire either, nowhere near, so I also don't have the money to relocate. Bit of a catch 22 really, isn't it?
 
sr4470 said:
Since you keep banging on about the under 30s, tell me, who is the one with the entitlement complex? The company supposedly offering £20k who won't spend £1k on training the right person, or me, someone who'd do the work if they could afford the certification? Clearly they aren't that desperate for staff then.
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Wait a minute, I'm not and was not asking anyone here to apply, merely pointing out that:

There are a whole load who complain about there being no work, when there is work.
A lot of under 30's and I should say even people in their 30's as well simply want money handed to them on a plate with no effort made on their part.
Due to short sighted legislation, IE the removal of the 7.5t entitlement on your standard driving license after 1997 renders those that DO want to work unable to apply unless they have previously made a secondary investment or have savings to take the test now.

Now the situation I was in when I saw I needed to get an HGV license was, and if you search the forum I posted when I decided to do it, was to pay for it.
 
As of last week I've started job hunting again as I left my previous position in September with 6 weeks holiday so decided to take the rest of the year off :)

The directors of my previous company annoyed everyone so much that practically the whole IT department quit. The directors had little IT experience, when we only had 6 staff it didn't show but after we grew to 16-17 and restructured it was blatant. I knew exactly what was going on and gave my team leader a months warning which he did nothing about and so IT collapsed.

On top of why everyone left I also left because of pay reasons, despite being the longest serving person in my department I was earning the least, it wasn't even the going rate. When I asked for a pay review they refused and wouldn't match the rate of the rest of the staff. So I've left and interviewing for jobs £5k+ of what I was earning and have left them with a £5k agency fee to replace me :)

So far I've found the IT market around herts/london quite busy, there's lots of jobs but lots of applicants.

MW
 
I've got an interview tomorrow for a job as a desktop support engineer

this question or one similar might come up

The deputy equities manager demands access to a legal shared drive, as he does not have the correct permissions, it is late at night and you are the only one left in the office what would you do?

If the decision makers are unreachable, what would you do?

If the deputy equity manager tells you a multi-million pound contract depends on him getting access to this shared drive, what would you do?

If he then gets the equities manager who starts shouting at you and threatening to get you the sack, what would you do?
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how would i deal with this what's the best answer to give

im thinking i shouldn't give him access as the permissions are there for a reason
but then i should be flexible in some situations
 
i got made redudant in December at my old place. I was running the online store more data entry and research then web coding but also did a lot of design work for emails and magazine adverts.

Just trying to find something part time to fit around my last year of uni. Im struggling to find anything, i don't even mind going back to retail jobs as i just need the money at the moment
 
Sem said:
I've got an interview tomorrow for a job as a desktop support engineer

this question or one similar might come up



how would i deal with this what's the best answer to give

im thinking i shouldn't give him access as the permissions are there for a reason
but then i should be flexible in some situations
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What is the company policy for granting access to the legal drive? Would you need appropriate sign off for access to be granted? If you do then you don't grant access until you have that sign off... You say sorry, do your best to get that sign off asap and let the rain of insults wash over you.
 
Munkeh said:
What is the company policy for granting access to the legal drive? Would you need appropriate sign off for access to be granted? If you do then you don't grant access until you have that sign off... You say sorry, do your best to get that sign off asap and let the rain of insults wash over you.
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AND ....
letting people get their hands on data that they're not supposed to could lead into a fine of up to £500,000.

Your answer is that you will try and make contact with a higher authority but if you can't you will make it your very first job when they come in.
 
Thread bump!!

Was wondering if any of you chaps could offer some advice on approach methods. I'm tired of working retail part-time and my art/design work isn't getting me anywhere as I'm still a student.

There's an incredibly high number of car dealerships around my area but none seem to advertise jobs frequently. I'm sure there must be organisation, meet and greet or other part-time roles available other than full-time sales.

Would it be worth contacting dealerships individually or just a waiting game really to see if anything comes up?
 
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