Forgot how bad job searching was :(

A2Z · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:16

It is quite funny and weird.

Last year after I graduated, I started looking for a job about August, and I was getting calls nearly every day to come in for interviews, quite a few of them I had to reject!

I decided to not get a job and go travelling, came back in January. Was looking 4 weeks before I managed to get my first interview, luckily they loved me and I got the job! They said 300 people had applied :eek:

Its a basic it support job for £17k...

And about 1 month ago my company had to recruit again for my exact same position as someone else was leaving...they recruited a guy...and said now 1000 people had applied :eek:

manic111 · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:25

HangTime said:
Out of interest, for all the graduates I'd like to know what they would consider to be an 'acceptable' starting salary for their first job after uni. By which I mean, not the salary you want, or feel you are entitled to, but the level at which you would accept an offer.

Personally I'm after a bare minimum of £16k, although to take something at that wage I'd need to be assured that there were opportunities to advance quickly, and that the company was going in the right direction. I wouldn't take that for a dead end job, or for something I don't enjoy.

borich_planner · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:27

A2Z said:
It is quite funny and weird.

Last year after I graduated, I started looking for a job about August, and I was getting calls nearly every day to come in for interviews, quite a few of them I had to reject!

I decided to not get a job and go travelling, came back in January. Was looking 4 weeks before I managed to get my first interview, luckily they loved me and I got the job! They said 300 people had applied Its a basic it support job for £17k...

And about 1 month ago my company had to recruit again for my exact same position as someone else was leaving...they recruited a guy...and said now 1000 people had applied

I left uni in 2006 and before i finished my course i lined up 6 interviews within a month (I only applied for these 6 jobs and all offered interview) I went to the first got offered 18k and the second two days later offered me 22k) I think the times of getting jobs so easily has long gone

Borich

Delvis · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:29

sr4470 said:
Well, only 2 more months till the academic year begins...

Heh...I very much doubt I'd be going back into education

Delvis · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:35

oh...And what other sites can people recommend? Ones that are more 'non' agency based...

I'm actively on Monster, CWjobs and Reed...However with CWjobs im also on a few other sites I believe.

Thanks all

Indy500 · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:41

Delvis said:
Heh...I very much doubt I'd be going back into education

The degree I've been accepted for is fairly hands-on and doesn't have 20 hours of lectures each week, so I'll have plenty of time left for employment..

Delvis · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:46

sr4470 said:
The degree I've been accepted for is fairly hands-on and doesn't have 20 hours of lectures each week, so I'll have plenty of time left for employment..

Ah nice one

Indy500 · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:48

Delvis said:
Ah nice one

Still classed as full-time though, for some reason..oh, and you get MCSE\CCNA\Oracle thrown in as well

WalesOwl · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:03

I just got a job at a crematorium XD

Indy500 · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:10

WalesOwl said:
I just got a job at a crematorium XD

Doing what exactly?

Delvis · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:11

sr4470 said:
Still classed as full-time though, for some reason..oh, and you get MCSE\CCNA\Oracle thrown in as well

That is pretty cool...hope it goes well for you.

WalesOwl said:
I just got a job at a crematorium XD

Nice one, congratulations

Indy500 · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:15

Delvis said:
That is pretty cool...hope it goes well for you.

Thanks.

I don't think you mentioned already, what was your recent job involving?

darreny · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:18

i find the not knowing whats going on after you've applied to be torturous, i dont like not being in control of my destiny i guess

Delvis · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:20

sr4470 said:
Thanks. I don't think you mentioned already, what was your recent job involving?

The one I started in March was for a LoudSpeaker company, building and testing professional loudspeakers basically

..Shame, cause the company is good theoretically.

darreny said:
i find the not knowing whats going on after you've applied to be torturous, i dont like not being in control of my destiny i guess

Heh, it is bad

It's when you don't even get a short email saying "no" just to confirm

WalesOwl · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:22

Doing what exactly?

THROWING TEH BEDIES INTO TEH FLAMEZ

No seriously I go out to the cemetary and database the names. Theres not a lot of data on who is in which grave before 1978ish.
And paperwork for dead people aswell.

It's not bad actually, just occasionaly sad when you see graves for people like 12yrs old and stuff............

EDIT:Thread stopper lol.

manic111 · 5 Jul 2009 at 13:43

Delvis said:
oh...And what other sites can people recommend? Ones that are more 'non' agency based...

I'm actively on Monster, CWjobs and Reed...However with CWjobs im also on a few other sites I believe.

Thanks all

Have a gander on Milkround; you can't "sign-up" for them, as it were, but they have a lot of good jobs on there.

Really good as they tell you what company you're applying for, unlike a lot of websites, so you can tailor your application.

Delvis · 5 Jul 2009 at 14:14

manic111 said:
Have a gander on Milkround; you can't "sign-up" for them, as it were, but they have a lot of good jobs on there.

I'll have a gander, thanks

Fiocca · 5 Jul 2009 at 17:52

I've been looking for about 2months after redundancy. I have no quals but i worked my way up with one company over 6 1/2 years. Because no companies are recruiting for positions that i previously worked in i'm stuffed. I'm on the dole and it's so depressing, i feel like giving up tbh.

I have some money from my redundancy left but my outgoings are nearly 600 a month so i have a couple of months left before i'm screwed. My relationship is sufering too because i can't do anything so it's just a complete load of ****. If you have a job, no matter how pants, think yourself lucky cos it's not a nice feeling goin to the job centre with the drunks and constantly being rejected or unacknowledged by employers

Wiggins · 5 Jul 2009 at 19:41

In this current climate I believe its more of who you know in order to secure a job at the moment.

I spent nearly 6 months looking for work and sent hundreds of applications off only to get 3 interviews.

It was my wife asking at her company if there was any work and I ended up landing a job setting up appointments for hearing asessments. Mundane call center work but its better than dipping into my savings and its a job at the end of the day. Pickers can't be choosers even if its a job at 14k a year.

Delvis · 5 Jul 2009 at 19:46

Wiggins said:
In this current climate I believe its more of who you know in order to secure a job at the moment.

I spent nearly 6 months looking for work and sent hundreds of applications off only to get 3 interviews.

It was my wife asking at her company if there was any work and I ended up landing a job setting up appointments for hearing asessments. Mundane call center work but its better than dipping into my savings and its a job at the end of the day. Pickers can't be choosers even if its a job at 14k a year.

It's looking like I literally am going to have to take anything...

Problem is There aren't many sites that list those types of jobs =/...