Morrisons jobs

rb1

Thanks for this Littlevoice. Morrisons website also makes a big thing about them being an equal opportunities employer etc etc. I will certainly complain to anyone I feel should know.
:rolleyes:

Emmzi

LittleVoice wrote: »

Almost certainly a breach has happened - if they haven't advertised the the vacancies at the Jobcentre. They are a disability symbol user and so presumably signed up to notifying the Jobcentre of all vacancies.

Being a two ticks employer does not mean you have to advertise everything at the job centre!!

This is misinformation. It means if someone meets minimum requirements and are disabled you will see them for interview - but does not mean you *have* to advertise in certain places.

seven-day-weekend

My son works at Matalan and has done so for over two years. His contract is only for eight hours a week, although up until recently he has been doing 16-24 hours most weeks,sometimes more.

When work is slow he is put back onto just his eight hours. When it picks up he is offered more.

He'd be well pleased (not!) if he was left on eight hours a week and extra hours were offered to a student.

An example of my own; I recently applied to the Council Clerical Relif Pool at the Council I used to work for (20 years in various capacities) before taking early retirement. They always used to have vacancies and in fact it was considered a good way into getting permanent employment with the Council.

I was told that they were not recruiting and that any temping jobs that came up were given to existing employees whose jobs were vulnerable because of the recession. I personally think that is fair enough.

I feel sorry for your daughter, but I don't think anything is 'unfair', there is a recession on and therefore there are less jobs, I think it is sensible and ethical for companies to look after their own first. As for employing relatives, well they have to select somehow and that is the way they have chosen.

I hope she gets something soon.

lucy*locket

Hermia wrote: »

I think in the current climate it's just very hard to get any jobs. I personally wouldn't bother taking it further and instead get your daughter to work on her CV (could she do some voluntary work in a shop to get some retail experience?) and try every avenue.

Can I also suggest that you have a word with your husband about his actions? We take on a lot of school-leavers and students where I work and a parent getting involved like this would totally scupper the kid's chances. We do have parents who ring up and ask for the application form and then ring up again to ask about an interview etc. We also have parents who ring up or come in demanding to know why their child hasn't got the job. We do not give a job to the kid if this happens. Firstly, because if they don't have the confidence to phone us up or fight their own battles then we wonder how they will possibly cope with dealing with the public. Secondly we don't want to take on someone whose mum or dad will blame us if their son or daughter is dismissed or has a bad appraisal.

Yes I'd feel the same, I recruit staff for my department at work and if a parent approached me about someone's application I wouldn't look on it favourably....indeed this has happened a few times in the past and the young people in question didn't stand a chance after that especially as lots of other people had applied who were more suitable for the job. I'm not employing the parent after all so why would I want to deal with them?

When vacancies come up I generally advertise them in the local press so that it's a level playing field, then if someone applies through a member of staff they understand that they won't have preferential treatment.I've had a couple of bad experiences in the past where people have been recommended then turn out to be unsuitable for the job, makes it really difficult when they have to be disciplined or dismissed. But probably not a problem for a large company like Morrisons who would be a bit more ruthless I imagine.

Your daughter could sit by the phone for a week and make personal phone calls to employers and companies enquiring about vacancies...I employed two of my staff in this way, one just happened to call as I was about to advertise a job, the other one I kept her details 'cos she sounded promising and I approached her when a job came up later. Saved me £280 for an advert:D

It depends on how people come across on the phone too, I need to be able to have an intelligent conversation with anyone applying for a job and "connect" with them, if I can't then I won't even invite them in for an interview. A recent vacancy attracted 24 applicants, if they sounded promising on the phone I invited them in to meet me straight away, if they didn't come across very well then I sent out an application form first to sift through later. Sorry but that's the reality of it. It's a numbers game too, only 1 job so 23 people were disappointed.

I also agree your daughter should consider any job, sometimes getting your foot in the door leads to other opportunities. I'm in a management position now but started out as an ironing lady, then catering assistant, then by sheer hard work/long hours/positive attitude I worked my way up. My student daughter works at the same place as a cleaner, NOT what she wants to do in life but she's the best cleaner she can be and it looks great on her c.v., shows she's willing to do the dirty jobs (cleaning loos in a girls' school makes you or breaks you:eek:). HTH

jumpycheese1

I work in a supermarket and we had 3 colleagues retiring (1 bakery, 1 deli and 1 fresh foods) and another who had to leave due to ill health (deli). As there is a job freeze, they aren't being replaced. So colleagues are being trained up in how to use the deli and bakery. I have even seen my deputy store manager covering someone's lunch at the deli counter.

I haven't been asked yet.

jumpycheese1

Speaking from someone who I knew who worked for Morrisons (my ex) 70% of new staff that joined the store since he worked there had either a parent or sibling working there - or at one of the next 2 nearest stores.

I don't like that approach as the mother could be an excellent employee, doesn't mean to say her children are good. He said some of these with parents and siblings in the store took the p1ss and got dismissed. Then the store complains about being short staffed yet head office will not let them recruit more people!

Investigate your shoddy policies over recruitment

nexuss

On the whole Morrisons have proven figures that their recruitment policy has performed well when it comes to staff retainment and overall behaviour of staff.
When they operated blanket advertising for staff they had huge problems with the quality of staff for some reason so they opted to go down the road of inviting applications from relatives of current workers.Last time they advertised in newspapers they had 14,465 applications for 25 jobs.

CG19a

Think of it this way. Maybe your daughter has had a lucky escape. Would she want to work somewhere like this now?

Smashing

CG19a wrote: »

Think of it this way. Maybe your daughter has had a lucky escape. Would she want to work somewhere like this now?

Someone who takes care of their staff by not recruiting from outside at times of recession?

I would.

maryhillgirl

My three sons all worked "on the bins" during their university vacations. They registered with the agency who supplied the temporary workers, and started work next day. Once they had proved they were reliable and good grafters, they had no problem getting back in the following year. Yes, it was a hard job but they loved the company of the wide variety of characters they met while working. It might be an idea for those students looking for temporary posts to find out about similar employment in their local area by ringing their council. There's a high turnover of staff on the bins, largely because some folk can't hack it, but it's worth a try.
PS Girls are very welcome as well, apparently!