Support Each Other In Looking For Work?

katkim

have-hope wrote: »

lexilex,

I bet your parents have no realisation of what it is like to get a job at the moment. Must admit I never appreciated that job seeking could be so hard until I start looking and I have lots of past work experience. If you're in employment it's a hard to imagine the droves of people applying for so few jobs.

Something good will happen - you have to believe that

I do think that unless you're in this sitution that you have no idea of what it's like to find a job at the moment. I'll have to admit that didn't until I started looking and quickly realised how little full-time, permanent jobs were about.

Location, good terms and conditions, job security, interesting work...pffft, all that went out the window pretty quickly. I do laugh when posters in general discussion threads on JSA or unemployment say 'well, job-seekers shouldn't be so fussy' - Heck, I'm moving 9000 miles for a job that pays a third less of what I earned in my last one. I'm not the only one either. This time last year, I would never have guessed that out of my department that I'll be off to china and 4 others are headed to NZ, South Africa and Netherlands. Even though I do view it as an adventure, it's sad in a way.

Sometimes it does make my blood boil when long-term job seekers are equated with 'workshy' or classed as benefit scroungers. Of course there are those who don't want to work, besides from working the system. However, it's not unusal these days to be searching for work for months (proper blood and sweat and tears as this thread will testify...well, ok, thankfully not the blood but you know what I mean...) and not find anything for genuine reasons - lack of jobs, stiff competition etc.

Saying all that, even this must end. So, I really do believe we will all find something eventually. It's tough, but hang on in there, just hang on.

ferien_uk2011

lexilex wrote: »

I live at home (which I never dreamed I would still be doing aged 22)

I'd say 22 is an acceptable age to still be living at home. I'm 27 and still live at home (although I have moved out several times!)

palna

people complain i dont have a job and i cant even argue with them and say how hard it is as they all have jobs.

first78

Well another no for me! Still it's Friday, I'm reasonably healthy, I have a loving family and there are people all over the world who are worse off than I am. I'm trying to stay positive and focus on the things I have got.

Fingers crossed for some good vacancies next week peeps

jenhugs

Lexlus, don't be too down about still being at home at 22. The news reported the other day that the average first time buyer these days is 38. I was very shocked at this, and most children are not leaving the family home until there 3o's. Unfortunately a sign of the times, I am 33 and was lucky enough to buy my own house age 21, I do feel for everyone these days. Keep your chin up.

Drea, sorry you did not get those two jobs, it is so hard when you work so hard. The right job will come along, that is what I tell myself.

I got the application for the job I rung up about, I must say it is exactly what I was doing 4 weeks ago. Everything it is asking for I have got so we will see. Only down side is it is full time, anything is better then nothing at the moment.

Has anyone got any funny stories about job interviews. I turned up for a job in a university all prepared and glammed up, only to be greeted by a lady who was staring at me funny.

" I have come for the administration Interview." I state.
"Oh she says I will just speak to someone about that." Off she goes into another room closing the door behind her, whilst I sit patiently with sweaty hands. She re-enters the room.
"You do know your interview was yesterday and not today?"
"Oh" I say.
"Yes" she says "and you obviously have not got the job."
I was mortified only 21 just graduated from Uni, I remember walking up the street crying thinking what an idiot I was. Two weeks later I had another job, I do believe that job was never meant to be :rotfl::rotfl:

TakeittotheLimit.

This was a long time ago about 1983.

I got a call off the careers office(lol showing my age) as I'd just finished school saying that I had to go for a job as a Tiler(I wanted to be a Painter and Decorator and was actually waiting for a start date at the local college)and if I didn't go my dole money would be stopped.

So off I go to the `wrong` side of town where this job was,I find this tiling shop and goes in all nervous as this was my first interview there's a guy in the shop so in my bravest voice "I'm here for the tiling job,the careers office has sent me "
This guy says "I'm busy at the moment but Steve is in the back,go in there and talk to him!"
So I goes into the back of the shop which is filled with tiles all over the place and a scruffy looking guy is cuting some tiles on a saw type of thing.....he then says "how do I cut this tile?" "Do I want it length ways or across ways" and "How many tiles should I do?"

Well this went on for about 30 or 40 tiles I thought it was some sort of test so said yes length or sideways whatever.
Eventually the bloke from the front of the shop comes in and says "Are you ready for the interview?"

Well this Steve explodes "!!!!!! I thought he was the customers son and I've just ruined about £70 of tiles"
Needless to say I never got the job.:p

loops87

i just found a brilliant job, like absolutely perfect for me, but I only saw it about 10 minutes ago, and it closes at midnight tonight. no way I could do a decent application in 20 minutes. Dammit! it would have been so good. wish i'd seen it earlier. I keep doing this! (

Braintree

katkim wrote: »

I do think that unless you're in this sitution that you have no idea of what it's like to find a job at the moment. I'll have to admit that didn't until I started looking and quickly realised how little full-time, permanent jobs were about.

Location, good terms and conditions, job security, interesting work...pffft, all that went out the window pretty quickly. I do laugh when posters in general discussion threads on JSA or unemployment say 'well, job-seekers shouldn't be so fussy' - Heck, I'm moving 9000 miles for a job that pays a third less of what I earned in my last one. I'm not the only one either. This time last year, I would never have guessed that out of my department that I'll be off to china and 4 others are headed to NZ, South Africa and Netherlands. Even though I do view it as an adventure, it's sad in a way.

Sometimes it does make my blood boil when long-term job seekers are equated with 'workshy' or classed as benefit scroungers. Of course there are those who don't want to work, besides from working the system. However, it's not unusal these days to be searching for work for months (proper blood and sweat and tears as this thread will testify...well, ok, thankfully not the blood but you know what I mean...) and not find anything for genuine reasons - lack of jobs, stiff competition etc.

Saying all that, even this must end. So, I really do believe we will all find something eventually. It's tough, but hang on in there, just hang on.

I'm not moving as far as that but I've been shocked at the lack of help/funds for people who need to relocate for a job offer, especially if it will get them off JSA! Wasn't this a government that said, in a similar recession in the 1980s, "Get on your bike" and a current government that is shutting down Jobcentres, removing what little help that was there:eek::eek:

I would have had to turn down a job in London if I didn't have a friend I could stay with, who I literally cannot thank enough, which would have seen my benefits stopped because I was given no funding for a deposit/rent in advance and I've been told I can't get a crisis loan because it isn't a crisis! I wonder how many have had to turn down jobs because they didn't get the help they hoped they would get in a situation like this.

I was getting £52 a week, saving this *in case* I got a job offer would have been impossible but there certainly weren't any jobs to apply for where I lived either so looking further afield, as far as I'm concerned, was my only option.

morizot

Found out yesterday that the tests asked for be interviewers are to protect the companies. The tests results can be used by HR that they have not shown discriminatation against any particular group of people.

morizot

lexilex wrote: »

Thanks guys.

I live at home (which I never dreamed I would still be doing aged 22) and my parents are really on my back at the moment. I am pretty sure they think I sit watching daytime TV and playing on facebook all day when they are at work. They have told me I need to set my sights lower, which would be fine if I had only been applying for great jobs on huge salaries, but the truth is far from that. I've just written out a list of the jobs I've applied for recently to show them, 4 and a half pages of A4 crammed full of applications. It just makes me angry that people think I am one of those doleys who have no intention of ever working, when I am trying so damn hard to find a job, and hate this existance every single day.

Perhaps when your parents are in an amenable mood, you can ask them about their interview experience, how many jobs they applied for, the questions they were asked, what experience/skills they had, what the job market was like, what tests they needed, how many other people applied, why they got their job, what made them stand out. If you could then tell them your experiences perhaps they could compare, would understand. They might even have some constructive tips to pass on:D.

For my first job way back in mists of time, it was a simple discussion, no telephone, no panel, no tricky questions, no tests. For the job I am in now i was offered the job at the end of the interview (and I arrived late for the interview by about 20 mins). I had chosen a profession with a severe skills shortage (I don't think that situation exists any more).

even in my industry people who ten years ago, found jobs easily, now find it far more challenging due to globalisation

Do you parents know anyone else in the same situation?

Also speaking as a parent, I know we are all too aware that we pass on our strengths and weaknesses to our children. Your parents, by criticising you they are criticising themselves. What were they like at your age (I know one of my children is very similar to how I was and am)? (they probably won't admit to this one)

Good luck with educating your parents