Job at my work has come up

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the reason they have so few applicants is that a) you can't just send a CV as an application (Seriously? Why not? It's pretty de-factor across the industry, but whatever), and b) the advertised salaries are incredibly low.

My most junior member of staff (taken on with no enterprise experience, only retail consumer computer sales/support) is earning above the upper end of your "senior" position, and we're not exactly in a metropolitan technical hotspot.
 
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It doesn't state they are pro rata though so those salaries aren't that bad if that's your take home along with 13 weeks holiday a year.
 
paradigm said:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the reason they have so few applicants is that a) you can't just send a CV as an application (Seriously? Why not? It's pretty de-factor across the industry, but whatever), and b) the advertised salaries are incredibly low.

My most junior member of staff (taken on with no enterprise experience, only retail consumer computer sales/support) is earning above the upper end of your "senior" position, and we're not exactly in a metropolitan technical hotspot.
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Its a job in a school who's HR is Warwickshire County Council.
Its lower paid because of that, also its TERM time only.. So in fact the Senior role is a 24k job but prorata.

Its the Education sector. Pay is pretty poor.
 
I get that it's term time only, but in my eyes that warrants HIGHER pay.

If the only time I get to take off is school holidays, where getting away costs more, yet I have less disposable income. Lose lose. My wife left her job in the education sector (not IT based) because of the above.

Those salaries are utterly pathetic, even with the number of "holidays" taken into account.
 
tom_e said:
It doesn't state they are pro rata though so those salaries aren't that bad if that's your take home along with 13 weeks holiday a year.
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working in a school is not pro-rota, you still get paid and are employed during the 13 week holidays and all job roles at schools are just that, so £15k divided by 12 months = £1250 per month before deductions.

The issue is the per hour the pay could be £11.50 per hour, but because the job is in a school it maybe only contracted for 25-30 hours per week.

I have experience of this because my wife works in a school.
 
A school that had 7 students study ICT at A level last year with fairly average grades and there's only one applicant for the job...
 
£17K to be a senior IT technician?

Should be more £22K - £24K

The £12K is a complete joke, some IT apprenticeships pay that!

Should be £15K - £18K

e; just read the job description and it seems like basic stuff, I think they should consider changing the job titles and keep the same pay grade.
 
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Problem I see is that similar wages in Birmingham are significantly more than that... It's not all that far on a bus/train.
 
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working in a school is not pro-rota, you still get paid and are employed during the 13 week holidays and all job roles at schools are just that, so £15k divided by 12 months = £1250 per month before deductions.

The issue is the per hour the pay could be £11.50 per hour, but because the job is in a school it maybe only contracted for 25-30 hours per week.

I have experience of this because my wife works in a school.
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It depends on the role, some schools do and some schools don't.

I work full time, so in the holidays. Other members of support staff don't get paid anything during the 13 weeks they are off here (Teaching assistants and the like)
 
Sadly school pay for IT Technicians has always been bad. When I was an IT Tech at a school my salary topped out at around £19.5k a year, and I didn't get the holidays off, I just got 5 weeks holiday a year.
 
Kuros said:
It depends on the role, some schools do and some schools don't.

I work full time, so in the holidays. Other members of support staff don't get paid anything during the 13 weeks they are off here (Teaching assistants and the like)
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here its 38Hr pw.

The pay is then divided by the 12 months and you get holidays off.
So yes the pay is smaller for when you are at work, but you keep getting paid when your off.

It suits some people more than others
 
I think the problem is that it is paying pretty low for what you do (even paying lower than my last IT job, which was not a particularly well-paid job either).

Good luck in your new career though. :)

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linktoinsanity said:
I think the problem is that it is paying pretty low for what you do (even paying lower than my last IT job, which was not a particularly well-paid job either).

Good luck in your new career though. :)

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I did try and tell them, but it seems to be the going rate for IT in education :( The local authorities see it as a low end support role which is a shame because without us the school wouldn't function.
 
It's not too bad for a college leaver or someone wanting to get a foot in.

There's basic helpdesk jobs up here in the NE though that pay £9.10+ an hour.
 
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