Depends again, place I mentioned earlier has had positions open for years, people just don't like the sound of it.
The irony is, there are plenty who sign up for less enjoyable work in the same business.
Had enough of boss.
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The irony is, there are plenty who sign up for less enjoyable work in the same business.
Well it's only a christmas temp job so it'll probably finish without my doing just after christmas (they are unlikely to need me as the job I and 2 other temps do is usually done by just one the rest of the year), however i'm still actively hunting for a proper job (I have 26 new companies for speculative emails and 3-4 actual jobs to send) so hopefully I can bail out sooner.
I'm in a similar situation to you, 23 and left uni this summer (you left last did you not?) and part of the reason I didn't apply for a masters is because I'm already 2 years "behind" and wanted to get on the career path ASAP. It's ****** annoying that I'm now stuck in a job I don't like and I've wasted at least 6 months.
you must have been the slowest paperboy ever
Well they have to look at why people don't want to work for them. Maybe start adding up the dots a bit better. Increase wages, change the working conditions and job package, change how its advertised, change the job title even. Loads of things they could do instead of just lumping it and getting current staff to work overtime (and relying on them to say yes to doing it)
Well it's only a christmas temp job so it'll probably finish without my doing just after christmas (they are unlikely to need me as the job I and 2 other temps do is usually done by just one the rest of the year), however i'm still actively hunting for a proper job (I have 26 new companies for speculative emails and 3-4 actual jobs to send) so hopefully I can bail out sooner.
I'm in a similar situation to you, 23 and left uni this summer (you left last did you not?) and part of the reason I didn't apply for a masters is because I'm already 2 years "behind" and wanted to get on the career path ASAP. It's ****** annoying that I'm now stuck in a job I don't like and I've wasted at least 6 months.
Sept 08, so year before you I think, yeah. This recession lark is royally doing my head in - it hurt me at university, and continued to do so out of university too. :/
It doesn't help, that my flatmate from university of two years has just managed to land himself a 44k pa. job and from where I'm sitting it really looks like he's just fallen right into it. Don't get me wrong: I'm very happy for him and certainly not begruding him. I'm just a little baffled how some people manage to have so much luck whilst I'm obviously struggling.
I didn't have a problem with the recession at uni however wasn't working through it (worked in the summer of 2008). As for friends i'm quite lucky (well unlucky) in that all my friends from uni are in the same boat, only one person that isn't doing a masters/PGCE has actually got a proper job as far as I know and none of the others were hopeful when I spoke to them at the end of september. My home friends are in a similar position, with the 4-5 with "proper" jobs having them or at least a year or so, the rest in the same situation (working a 10-30 hours a week in retail. Oh the joys of being a student again...
Sent off 18 speculative CV's and 1 job application so fingers crossed that there is at least an interview out of all of them...
Sent off 18 speculative CV's and 1 job application so fingers crossed that there is at least an interview out of all of them...
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5 out of your 6 total posts here all promoting and linking back to your site... nice free advertising you're getting here.
