Support Each Other In Looking For Work?

stephyt23

bundly wrote: »

At your age this is terrible. The time when you are supposed to be building yourself a home and a life, and maybe thinking of marriage/family!

I have lodgers over the past few years have had Chinese, Polish and Latvians who can barely speak English... yet they all had jobs. Are employers preferring them, because they are more docile or are prepared to be treated like slaves?

When WILL things start to change? Well, what changed since 1960? Is it to do with the recession? The Tories being in power for so long, or Labour being in power for so long? The influx of Eastern Europeans? I think there are international economic forces at work that are difficult for us ordinary folk to fully comprehend.

It is. A friend of mine graduated from her PGCE a couple of years ago and it took her over 100 applications to get a job. (She's the same age as me) She's now living in Brighton and after applying for just 7 jobs got offered 2!

I do wonder if I have myself to blame for part of it. I started a degree in 2009 and finished the first year. Started year 2 last September and felt the university really wasn't right for me so I looked to transfer to somewhere else. The transfer was rejected as the new uni had covered more than me in year 1 so they felt I wasn't up to speed enough to join the year 2's. I'd applied to start from year 1 with this uni to join this September and am now awaiting an interview with them in May. I do have the option of going back to the old uni in September although I'd much rather start again and be happy with a different uni than return there and be unhappy again.

So in the meantime I'm stuck in limbo trying to get a job. The new uni has it's course part time and is more local so would suit me better as I can work around studying. My boyfriend is just having his first house built and I'll be moving in if I ever get a job to help pay the bills. I just find it hard that I have so much experience working with children and yet I cannot get a job in that area, or any other for that matter!

stephyt23

stephyt23 wrote: »

It is. A friend of mine graduated from her PGCE a couple of years ago and it took her over 100 applications to get a job, and that was applying to anything and everything going, not just school work (She's the same age as me). She's now living in Brighton and after applying for just 7 jobs got offered 2!

I do wonder if I have myself to blame for part of it. I started a degree in 2009 and finished the first year. Started year 2 last September and felt the university really wasn't right for me so I looked to transfer to somewhere else. The transfer was rejected as the new uni had covered more than me in year 1 so they felt I wasn't up to speed enough to join the year 2's. I'd applied to start from year 1 with this uni to join this September and am now awaiting an interview with them in May. I do have the option of going back to the old uni in September although I'd much rather start again and be happy with a different uni than return there and be unhappy again.

So in the meantime I'm stuck in limbo trying to get a job. The new uni has it's course part time and is more local so would suit me better as I can work around studying. My boyfriend is just having his first house built and I'll be moving in if I ever get a job to help pay the bills. I just find it hard that I have so much experience working with children and yet I cannot get a job in that area, or any other for that matter!

So much for me thinking by the time I'm 30 I'd have moved out and be married with at least one child. Can't see any of that happening at this rate

bundly

stephyt23 wrote: »

I do wonder if I have myself to blame for part of it. !

Oh god no! Don't blame yourself! It's the job climate today, complicated and diverse economic reasons why there are hundreds of people chasing every job. It's absolutely not your fault.

I promise you, you would NOT currently be unemployed is this were 1971 instead of 2011. Whether you had done a year at uni or not. Ironically, in my own case, I've never been offered a job since I got my BSc in 1994. Had loads of jobs before that!

I thought they'd be crying out for people to work with kids-- after all, there are millions of the little blighters!

stephyt23

bundly wrote: »

Oh god no! Don't blame yourself! It's the job climate today, complicated and diverse economic reasons why there are hundreds of people chasing every job. It's absolutely not your fault.

I promise you, you would NOT currently be unemployed is this were 1971 instead of 2011. Whether you had done a year at uni or not. Ironically, in my own case, I've never been offered a job since I got my BSc in 1994. Had loads of jobs before that!

I thought they'd be crying out for people to work with kids-- after all, there are millions of the little blighters!

Thank you

I shall blame my parents! They shouldn't have had me in the 80's :rotfl: saying that I doubt it would make much difference seeing how many of us on here are unemployed

lexilex

stephyt23 wrote: »

So much for me thinking by the time I'm 30 I'd have moved out and be married with at least one child. Can't see any of that happening at this rate

Isn't it depressing? I am so broody, and was hoping I would be well on my way to saving my half of a deposit for a house by now, before having kids within the next five years. There's absolutely no chance of that happening now. It's like your whole life gets put on hold.

I feel anxious all the time nowadays, wondering what I am going to do. I have a holiday which needs paying for in full in 7 weeks time, or I lose my deposit. It just makes me feel ill.

I've even thought about looking for work abroad but I don't even know where to start with that one.

Slinky

My husband said this morning he has applied for over 100 jobs in the past 6 months. He's had a small number of interviews. We're still vaguely hoping something may come of one he was supposed to hear about in the middle of last week, but the more the days go by, the less likely it seems it will be him that gets it. They interviewed 4 people, he was one of the two strongest candidates, but then another candidate was possibly going to be considered and we've heard little since. This is for a contract job 200 miles away so we'll have to live apart again. We had it for 3.5 years with his previous job. The MBA was supposed to try and help him find something more local.

Still, it's not just him, one of his fellow students started a contract job last Monday (hooray, at least somebody had some good news). He had a horrendous time trying to find something. One company he had 7 interviews with, then they decided he wasn't right for the job as his previous industry was different to what they were recruiting him for. It took them 7 interviews to notice this?

I left school in the early 80s, but I've never seen anything like this. I started my own business 6 years ago which fortunately has been successful, I spend some of my time scouring the net to see if I can find what he may have missed. His expertise is completely different to mine, but I really sympathise with anybody job hunting at the moment. Employers don't seem capable of taking a 'risk' with anybody who isn't an identical clone of the last person who did the job.

stephyt23

lexilex wrote: »

Isn't it depressing? I am so broody, and was hoping I would be well on my way to saving my half of a deposit for a house by now, before having kids within the next five years. There's absolutely no chance of that happening now. It's like your whole life gets put on hold.

I feel anxious all the time nowadays, wondering what I am going to do. I have a holiday which needs paying for in full in 7 weeks time, or I lose my deposit. It just makes me feel ill.

I've even thought about looking for work abroad but I don't even know where to start with that one.

It really is! I wanted to have kids before I'm 30 as I'd love to have 3, and want to be a young Mom. It was another reason I'd prefer the part time option of uni so I can work around that and be saving, and could even have the option of having kids while I'm studying as it would be easier to manage than people I know who are having children while studying full time. It really does feel like everything is on hold. I'm actually jealous of friends who have children and are married at my age, some of them are even managing to have a career. I just think when will I get the chance to have that?

I've often thought I live in the wrong country lol, I wonder if my skills would get snapped up elsewhere.

bundly

This is all very depressing.

To not be able to do the basic, human things like have a family. Shame on the people who supposedly run this country.

The waste of lives, the waste of talent, the misery and anxiety.

And that we all feel so helpless to change anything. Why are we so helpless? Supposedly a democracy. Nobody wants this situation but what can any of us do?

I didn't realise how lucky I am till recently, I get my income mainly from property, and that was entirely by accident and luck, and my taking a huge chance taking on a massive mortgage (against the advice of all my friends). But my story won't help any of you, unless by chance you are in a position to at least let a room. Easiest and safest way I've found of making money.

stephyt23

The school just called with some feedback. They said it was a good application but they'd have 45 apply for the post. They were concerned that I was in the middle of my degree so wouldn't stay with them long.

I can't bloody win! If I take that off it leaves a year long gap, leaving it on makes people think I'm still studying even though it was an end date as 2010 on applications. I even explained to her that I'm going to restart my degree part time so I still work around it for 4 years but I can't exactly get that across on applications.

My Mom has just said I need to look outside education jobs but I am! I can't get anything doing Admin, there are no retail jobs available and I can't even get an interview for a cleaning job!!!!!!!

Stew68

Hi all.

I've not posted for a few days, mainly because i've been so down and despondent about the whole situation. I'm sorry that everybody is feeling the same way as I do.

I just don't seem to be getting anywhere with anything. It's 9 1/2 months now since I was made redundant and I never ever thought it would be this bad. I seem to be either overqualified or underqualified. I just feel like giving up completely.

I was even considering over the weekend about just selling up and disappearing for twelve months, that maybe when I came back things would be better. I've been good all my life, being careful with my money and all that happens now is I get penalised for it. Just today I found out that because I have mortgage protection insurance i've been penalised by £160.00 a month in my income based jobseekers allowance.

Anybody any idea how you can get accross to a prospective employer that you are a loyal, hardworking individual in a CV? That's what I can bring to any job I do but they just can't see that.

Come on somebody, give us a job.........