Support Each Other In Looking For Work?

TakeittotheLimit.

What makes them think that looking for shop work,cleaning jobs etc is any easier to get?

I've been after a crap job since losing my job and there is NOTHING out there,I rang about a van driving job at a local charity and it had over 200 people apply for it,depressing stuff.

Still I'm sure next months jobless figures will be down again,nothing like a bit of !!!!!!!! to please the press.

lexilex

TakeittotheLimit. wrote: »

What makes them think that looking for shop work,cleaning jobs etc is any easier to get?

I've no idea! I tried explaining to her I've been applying for this already but it was like talking to a brick wall.

I also told her about my interview at Next, which was a group interview. The other applicants were middle aged and had worked in shops all their lifes. She said if she had the choice between me or them she would choose me, somebody young with new ideas. I said, so why did they get the job then? No answer.

I cannot compete with somebody who has years of experience in these areas. That's what she didn't seem to understand. She said employers want somebody fresh, not stuck in their ways. Well clearly not.

DCFC79

Nearly completed the application i got yesterday without any disasters

livermum

I should have been preparing for my interview tomorrow all day today but I have got toothache again and I can't concentrate on anything! I have got an appointment at the dentist in the morning and will be telling them to take it out as I can't cope much more. I just hope that the anaesthetic wears off before my interview at lunch time as I don't think that drooling will go down too well!

November5th

The strange recruiter finally got back to me. I quote: "after having an internal meeting about his meeting with you the company have decided to change the job description"
They have simply added experience in something, which I don't have.
Promise second round on what they said was an urgent role, then add something completely unrelated to the original role to the job spec?

I am just relieved this episode of weirdness is over. I can now email the company with a thank you note with no problem :j

I have also had some time to think about the interviewer where I was rejected over the lapdancer quote.
The recruiter is actually the internal HR Manager on a contract. He screened me and wanted me for the role, thought I would get it hands down. My interviewer's favoured candidate did not come through the HR guy. HR guy says favoured candidate is not qualified.
I was not interviewed by the person I would be reporting to, nor even be working with to a large extent.

So another thing us job seekers have to handle is bad recruitment processes. The above represents a weeks work and undue stress.
So while there are things I need to improve, sometimes the internal politics of companies mean that sometimes you just don't really have a fair chance.

Firefly_777

lexilex wrote: »

I've applied for graduate schemes but hear nothing. Assistant Psychology vacancies, or similar, are really rare up here. I think there have been two since I graduated. I would love one of these roles, but I know I have no chance whatsoever. I've been applying for anything even slightly linked to what I studied such as teaching assistants (I spent time on placement in two schools), anything to do with employment or learning disabilities.

It just upsets me so much that all mark hard work was for nothing.

I had to stop myself at least three times from crying at the job centre.

Sounds like you have the experience, you just need to big it up. Unfortunately, there will always be that problem where someone has more experience than you, but not all employers go for the same thing, maybe you will have additional skills they want that the other person with experience doesn't have. You never know!

Firefly_777

What is a floorwalker (obviously I have looked at the person spec and job description - just a strange title)? There are 50 vacancies in Bath on the NHS website. Surely that's a typo? I've applied for it anyway.

lexilex

Did anybody save the email address of the BBC rep who posted on this forum yesterday about a new tv show? I think I am desperate enough now to make a fool of myself on national television but the post seems to have gone.

DCFC79

Firefly_777 wrote: »

What is a floorwalker (obviously I have looked at the person spec and job description - just a strange title)? There are 50 vacancies in Bath on the NHS website. Surely that's a typo? I've applied for it anyway.

Floorwalkers provide on-the-ground support for acute trust staff during the days and weeks following go-live of the Cerner Millennium Electronic Care Records system, and are an essential part of any go-live.

from here

Firefly_777

Cheers DCFC79, your link explains it a lot better.

Lexilex, I'm not sure where that link has gone, maybe it was a scam or maybe they had enough people, something like that would surely be on the first page...