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GregHesp wrote: »

or are located to far away

Maybe you need to be prepared to move quite a distance for your first job, I moved 200 miles from home to get my job in a specialist area of IT.

Xeorix

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Maybe you need to be prepared to move quite a distance for your first job, I moved 200 miles from home to get my job in a specialist area of IT.

Im prepared to move away from home. I went for a job down in Cheltenham for IT, i'll leave you to guess where.

If they provide traning and its a specialist area then im prepared to move. If its just a job as a web designer earning £16k a year and I have to move to London or the likes then im not willing to relocate for that.

Snakeeyes21

So whats wrong with getting a job thats not relevant to your chosen career? Cleaning, bar work, kitchen work, shop work etc
i guess you think menial tasks like that are beneath you?
if you hold out for that perfect job you will soon find yourself unemployable, not just by employers in your chosen profession but by any employer.
going to uni and then a year plus not working will send alarm bells ringing, are you lazy? Are you up to the job? Do you think your better than everybody else? etc etc the list is endless.
where as if you go to uni then do any job to put food on the table whilst you hut down that perfect job it can only go in your favour.

Raquela

I would agree; right now you need to find a job any job, just to get some experience. Have you signed on as a temp with the agencies? do you ring them every day? Temping is a really great way to get some experience quickly. I'm sure as an IT graduate you can type, right, so you should be able to get some basic office admin temp work.

lynzpower

Lokolo wrote: »

Get a voluntary job in the mean time.

Least its 'free' experience..... which is what you need.

Cant recommend this enough. I got a dregree in politics- and did have a fair amount of work experience, eg shops, offices, bar work etc, and struggled to find a job at all.

I moved to london and temped in offices for a bit, and realised i wanted to go into social work so did a short course ( 13 weeks) and took 3 voluntary jobs. I went from Administrator in a childrens charity to assistant social worker, with a local authority. I would have never got this without voluntary experience.

get out there, earn some skills and learn about the work place.

The other suggestion I had is that coud you get any more tasks at work to upskill yourself in these 7 hours?

Raquela

ooh, forgot to say, another thing that doing a job, any job, even if its a couple of part time things with maybe some voluntary on the side, is it shows how versatile you are; a key employability skill. There's a volunteering website where you can find links to who in your areas needs volunteers, I can't remember the address, but google is your friend no doubt.

Rockporkchop

GregHesp wrote: »

If they provide traning and its a specialist area then im prepared to move. If its just a job as a web designer earning £16k a year and I have to move to London or the likes then im not willing to relocate for that.

Why not? If you get offered something like that in your chosen field then you should grab it, even if you only do it for a few months. It's easier to get a job when you already have one and London isn't exactly the other side of the country from you - what, 3 hours away?

You do seem to be a bit negative and defeatist to be honest - I don't think the title of your thread is entirely accurate.

olly300

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Maybe you need to be prepared to move quite a distance for your first job, I moved 200 miles from home to get my job in a specialist area of IT.

I moved to another country to get mine.

olly300

GregHesp wrote: »

Im prepared to move away from home. I went for a job down in Cheltenham for IT, i'll leave you to guess where.

If they provide traning and its a specialist area then im prepared to move. If its just a job as a web designer earning £16k a year and I have to move to London or the likes then im not willing to relocate for that.

In most IT jobs now you are expected to provide your own training by learning stuff of the web or out of books, or learn off other people in the office.

And you need to get realistic about pay. You have no experience and doing a job which many more experienced people with good portfolios can do so don't expect to get paid a lot.

In fact I've worked on web design with various graphical designers and I'm not a web designer I mainly do back-end and systems stuff but will take anything that fits my skill set to stay employed.

Also lots of big employers will not now look at your for their graduate schemes until you get some sort of experience.

I know other people who did IT degrees who couldn't be bothered to move or travel to get their first job they expected it to be on their doorstep. 10 plus years down the line they haven't got a job in IT are in other sectors with poorer pay there as people I know who are willing to go anywhere for their first jobs are employed.

greyster

GregHesp wrote: »

Im prepared to move away from home. I went for a job down in Cheltenham for IT, i'll leave you to guess where.

If they provide traning and its a specialist area then im prepared to move. If its just a job as a web designer earning £16k a year and I have to move to London or the likes then im not willing to relocate for that.

I really didnt want to move when I graduated but I knew deep down that I would end up in the south east to get a decent job in IT. I moved 250 miles and my second job after uni made me move another 45 miles.

I have/had plenty of grad mates who didn't want to move and the majority did. A couple didn't and in my eyes they've had to settle for severely less wages and a less than inspiring job.

I think when you widen your net your chances will increase. It took me 4 months after graduating from my masters to find my job, around the time when i widened my net.

Moving is not pleasant but you got to be prepared to move far to a not so nice place in order to get a decent job that you a) feel interested in, b) utilises your education and c) pays well.

I think also the current climate is worst than when I had to make the call, so really the above applies more thanever.

I applied for over 100 jobs and got 3 interviews. I was literally spending 5 hours a day applying for jobs. I work for a major telco now and loving it... still in south east though!