Support Each Other In Looking For Work?

asparagusnextleft

I've just found this thread.

I've been looking for a job since September last year. 2010 was a bit of a strange year - my husband's job changed dramatically which meant he could become home based so we relocated back up North from London (something I've wanted to do ever since moving there, I hated it). So, we bought a house and I packed my job in, we moved. Then, my husband was made redundant. Not the major disaster it sounds as he'd been there a long time so he was looked after financially.

I honestly didn't think finding an administrator/office manager job in my home town would be so difficult. The recruiters haven't been helpful, one even said they want someone with 'senior management experience' for an office manager job paying £17k!! !!!!!!? All the jobs advertised seem to want financial or legal experience whereas my experience is in publishing.

I'm feeling completely fed up and demotivated now. I'm at a point where I can't even be bothered looking on the job sites. I don't even get any JSA now as we are over the savings threshold so am just signing on for my NI. I'm absolutely fed up of going to the Job Centre so I am thinking about signing off.

Sorry about this completely unhelpful post, I just wanted a little vent :mad:

DCFC79

saxonrosecliff wrote: »

I've stopped buying the local paper now unless there is something in it. I know its a bit cheeky but I go to Tesco, read the adverts and put it back if there is nothing for me to apply for (this is a moneysaving site and it does save me money!).

I started my voluntary work today - assisting a tutor with teaching the internet and email (and possibly other computer programs) at Age Concern (or Age UK as its now called) and I really enjoyed it. I got home and there was a telephone message from a company I applied for a job at. I'd love to know why I get interviews for jobs that I don't really want but never hear anything from jobs I'd be good at and would enjoy!

I'm fed up as well and it one more person says to me "at least you can sit in the sun" I swear I will kill them. I'm fed up with sitting in the sun, reading, cleaning the house, applying for jobs and generally thinking what I can do next! That's today's rant over.

there did used to be at least 3 pages of jobs(proper job ads) and then a page of just the small jobs ads(so 4 pages in total) but lately its been just 2 or 3 pages in total

DCFC79

Found another job to apply for so i need to get teh letter done for that but not sure if i can muster the energy to do it now

EndlessStruggle

Vent away. I just fill my time that's not job related/voluntary work doing Surveys, hunting for freebies and discounts, entering competitions. Fills the time, I have got some lovely freebies so far

My Mum buys the papers so I steal the job pages

My local papers have 1-2 pages at the most and some weeks it has none just a jobs box and nothing there :rotfl:

saxonrosecliff

I remember the good old days when the jobs pages were a supplement in the middle of the paper of around 10 pages. Today there was three pages at the back of the paper and that's a good week.

I hope that now I've started voluntary work (spurred on by the people on this thread so a million thank yous) I'll be spending less time at home on my own and won't get so bored. I was really suprised at Age UK as they let me have a lunch and pudding at lunchtime free of charge in the restaurant (local senior citizens are bought in my minibus for lunch).

Welcome asparagusnextleft and TGWTARN. There's a great bunch of people on this thread!

Braintree

Well after ranting earlier in this I managed to get a job today! Doesn't start until June so don't want to count my chickens too much and it means relocating, with er...no money for a deposit to my name but I will manage.

A relief because I was told yesterday that after 13 weeks of signing on I'd have to do weekly sign ons! The bus fare each week alone made this a horrifying prospect so whilst I will still have to do that for the next few weeks it won't be 'forever'.

I just wanted to wish everybody luck, I've not posted much but I've found this thread so useful and informative and wanted to say that if I can get a job (admittedly not the best paid but I'm very much on the bottom rung on the ladder to my ideal career when before I was just looking longingly at the ladder) then so can everyone on here. You are clearly all bright, hard working people and the circumstances are tough. I got so immune to rejection that it can't be healthy. It is a tough market out there and despite what Cameron says we aren't all in this together. Only a select group understand how tough the job market is and those are the ones that need to stick together, not those who don't and never will understand how tough it is out there.

DCFC79

Braintree wrote: »

Well after ranting earlier in this I managed to get a job today! Doesn't start until June so don't want to count my chickens too much and it means relocating, with er...no money for a deposit to my name but I will manage.

A relief because I was told yesterday that after 13 weeks of signing on I'd have to do weekly sign ons! The bus fare each week alone made this a horrifying prospect so whilst I will still have to do that for the next few weeks it won't be 'forever'.

I just wanted to wish everybody luck, I've not posted much but I've found this thread so useful and informative and wanted to say that if I can get a job (admittedly not the best paid but I'm very much on the bottom rung on the ladder to my ideal career when before I was just looking longingly at the ladder) then so can everyone on here. You are clearly all bright, hard working people and the circumstances are tough. I got so immune to rejection that it can't be healthy. It is a tough market out there and despite what Cameron says we aren't all in this together. Only a select group understand how tough the job market is and those are the ones that need to stick together, not those who don't and never will understand how tough it is out there.

well done, do you have far to relocate

EndlessStruggle

Congrats on the job

Voluntary work is great. Depending on where you are there can be a lot about but the main ones that pop up seem to be Charity Shops, Age UK & National Trust ones.

Chartered_Eng

asparagusnextleft wrote: »

One even said they want someone with 'senior management experience' for an office manager job paying £17k!! !!!!!!?

I'm feeling completely fed up and demotivated now. I'm at a point where I can't even be bothered looking on the job sites. I don't even get any JSA now as we are over the savings threshold so am just signing on for my NI. I'm absolutely fed up of going to the Job Centre so I am thinking about signing off.

Sorry about this completely unhelpful post, I just wanted a little vent :mad:

Please rant away, that's part of the point of this thread. You are writing to people who understand, not politicians with no concept of real life.

Asking for higher levels of qualifications / experience is the same as the last big recession in the mid 1980's. It's a way for employers to easily filter out a mountain of applications for a job. It's lazy but time is money and we all know where that went (pick your favourite bank).

Being dejected is very natural but don't give up, and most of all don't stop signing on as you may need that NI contribution later to get a full pension.

Chartered_Eng

saxonrosecliff wrote: »

I hope that now I've started voluntary work (spurred on by the people on this thread so a million thank yous) I'll be spending less time at home on my own and won't get so bored. I was really suprised at Age UK as they let me have a lunch and pudding at lunchtime free of charge in the restaurant (local senior citizens are bought in my minibus for lunch).

Good to hear that you are enjoying the voluntary work and well done bagging lunch. A true money saving expert