Job at my work has come up

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Hey

Im changing to be a teacher.

My Jobs up for grabs but closes tomorrow!

http://ksn.org.uk/ICT-Technician-or-Senior-ICT-Technician---Closing-Friday-22nd-July-at-12-Noon

I hope this is Ok, currently only 1 person has applied which sucks. If no one is appointed this term I'm going to have to handover next term when i wont have time..!

 

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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.

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.

 

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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.

 

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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)

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

 

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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.

Link.

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.

 

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No one applied again.
So readvertised.

I have finished now.

 

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Can the role really be advertised as Senior ICT Tech considered the varied roles you want the person to do

Well.

The HR only has the following roles to use;
Junior ICT tech
ICT Tech
Senior ICT tech.

They need someone to manage to the website and vle and those fall under the senior role. Thus they use that.

These roles are made by the LA, and the school simply uses them.