The Silent Phone Agony - Anybody Suffering It?

bordercars

plenty of work if you want it. i have needed a fulltime taxi driver since an accident in feb 08, we dont have a window cleaner round here either, and its not as small village, town with a pop of about 10000 and probaly half are retired elderly , sold up their london prop and living the life in rural suffolk.

lufcgirl

Truegho...I remember you saying your from Liverpool, is that correct?

If so I was there last week and I saw theres a brand new Tesco opening in two weeks down by the Albert Dock way (well it was on my route from hotel to Beatles museum so must be!!)...how about you contact them about applying for that?

I also saw vacancies advertised for Virgin Media and I walked past an Adecco which had a window full of jobs when I was walking towards the docks again.

I've thought about moving somewhere else in the country for work, Liverpool seems amazing to me! Theres a new museum opening and numerous tourist spots that are gonna want people over the summer too.

El_Rey

LUFCgirl - I live in Liverpool, so if you need to know anything send me a PM. What sort of work would you be looking for here?

lufcgirl

If I was to move, I'd probably want a team leader/assistant in a call centre. I like doing it but it'd have to be seriously worth my while to move there! Liverpool is a lovely place though, can't fault it at all from when I was there.

Or working in the Maritime Museum or with ships, I'm obsessed with the things!

blue_ashleigh

teabelly wrote: »

You can't do the same thing everyday and expect different results. It seems applying for advertised jobs and sending your cv off isn't bearing fruit. Do something different.

Any suggestions?

lufcgirl

Speculative letters, contacting companies direct?

Putting on a nice suit, shiny shoes and armed with 20 copies of your most up to date CV and go round every agency in your town. If your registered already give them a copy of your CV and make sure they're aware your still available.

wigglebeena

Self-employment. You can carry on applying for regular jobs, apply for WTC instead of JSA, possibly get some start up money from the benefits office and it gives you something else to think about rather than the job search. Even if you don't bring in enough to make ends meet you're developing new transferable skills, maintaining self-respect by bringing something in and can fill in the financial cracks with WTC.

And those new skills may impress a potential employer. You're demonstrating a willingness to get off your a*se and try something new, at least.

onlyforboards_2

bordercars wrote: »

plenty of work if you want it. i have needed a fulltime taxi driver since an accident in feb 08, we dont have a window cleaner round here either, and its not as small village, town with a pop of about 10000 and probaly half are retired elderly , sold up their london prop and living the life in rural suffolk.

There are four full-time jobs advertised on the job centre website within a 20 mile radius of where I live, which is a highly populated industrial area.

Unfortunately as nice as it sounds where you live, not everyone is able to live there.

Horace

Watched phones never ring..that's the nature of them. You need to be more proactive and inventive with regards to jobhunting especially in these troubled times - you need to make yourself less ordinary and more extraordinary, the way to do that is to tramp about handing out your CV, targetting places that you would like to work, ring them, send your CV to them on the offchance especially if you demonstrate in your covering letter that you are keen to work for them.

Be prepared to think outside the box and take any job that is available.

Louise22

It defo differs to what area you are in - there seems to be lots of work in Manchester. Not many people can just up sticks and move though.

Hope your phone starts ringing soon, Truegho!