How bad is the job situation in your area?

morganedge

There actually does seem to be quite a few jobs (south East, Gatwick area), but they all seem to be very very well paid, professional jobs for people with boat loads of qualifications and experience looking for upper management work etc. Way out of most people's leagues.

There are only a few of the sort of jobs that I can apply for (warehouse,very basic office work etc) and when them jobs are advertised, there are hundreds upon hundreds of people going for them.

November5th

morganedge wrote: »

There actually does seem to be quite a few jobs (south East, Gatwick area), but they all seem to be very very well paid, professional jobs for people with boat loads of qualifications and experience looking for upper management work etc. Way out of most people's leagues.

There are only a few of the sort of jobs that I can apply for (warehouse,very basic office work etc) and when them jobs are advertised, there are hundreds upon hundreds of people going for them.

This is something that is completely not understood by many of my friends who are not in the jobs market, they think they can always get one of these fallback jobs... I say, so you think that, everyone I know thinks that, how many people do you think are applying for these positions? This nice job you have been doing for the last three years or so, what experience has it given you to even get one of these jobs? Did you ever consider you are not qualified for warehouse or admin work, or waitressing, cleaning etc?
I don't mean to be negative to them, just they need to see reality.

looby75

Here, Durham area, it's dire to say the least.

There are jobs being advertised but a lot of them are 0 hour contracts or for very skilled jobs which need a lot of qualifications such as 2 that were advertised today, Chair in Physical Geography and Reader in Physical Geography. What ever they are lol

The rest are for self employed sales jobs.

cgk1

looby75 wrote: »

Here, Durham area, it's dire to say the least.

There are jobs being advertised but a lot of them are 0 hour contracts or for very skilled jobs which need a lot of qualifications such as 2 that were advertised today, Chair in Physical Geography and Reader in Physical Geography. What ever they are lol

The rest are for self employed sales jobs.

A chair would be a job for a senior academic who's more than likely be working for about twenty years and has a string of publications. A reader is a researcher like position which also would more than likely require ten years worth of academic experience and a string of publication. Both jobs are highly specialist and thus closed to about 99.5% of the population.

cgk1

dori2o wrote: »

Tesco in our area recently advertised for 15 jobs (5 full time, 10 part time), nothing fancy just stacking shelves, tills etc. They received over 2500 applications for 15 jobs.

There are a few jobs on the direct.gov website in our area, but a lot are skilled positions, or 'relevant experience essential' positions.

So whilst there may be a few jobs available, the number of people going for these jobs is what makes it harder to get one.

Do Tesco actually do full-time jobs? Except for the managers, where my sister works, pretty much all of the staff seem to top out at 28 hours a week.

looby75

cgk1 wrote: »

A chair would be a job for a senior academic who's more than likely be working for about twenty years and has a string of publications. A reader is a researcher like position which also would more than likely require ten years worth of academic experience and a string of publication. Both jobs are highly specialist and thus closed to about 99.5% of the population.

thanks for the explanation, those kind of jobs do seem to come up quite often in our area but I suppose thats because we have the university here.

cgk1

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

I believe the Welsh valleys are on a par with the likes of Romania economically, nothing other than the supermarkets who employ and then only a fraction.

The pubs that haven't closed down for good usually only open from Thurs to Sun. Houses are tough to sell and the council are sacking everyone then will employ the workers again on less money.

It's bad.

Bluntly, the Welsh Valleys have had it - there are virtually no jobs, and those exist are very low paid. The waves of council layoffs we are about to experience are about to depress many areas even further - it's going to get really really grim.

lazer

slugger09 wrote: »

I've been looking for another job since Christmas, nothing to fancy just perhaps factory or warehouse work, I have saw 1 job advertised which I applied for but never got but thats been it, Checking the jobcentre there seems to be 1 local job per week which 9/10 is a clearner or waitress, there simply is no work out there. I heard on the news yesterday 1 in 4 18-24 year old are unemployed, and unemployment has risen again in N.I for another month with an extra 600 people signing on last month. Its all very very sad, there doesn't seem to be any opertunity out there, I am lucky I have a job at the moment.

What it like where you live?

I just checked the NI job centre and there has been 179 jobs added in the last 2 days, and they seem to be across a variety of areas
And given the size of NI I'd say around 50% of these are accessible from every area, so unless you live somewhere very obscure, I find it hard to believe there is only 1 job a week in your local area, unless of course you are limiting your local area to one town or village.

Are you registered with the recruitment agencies - for warehouse type work try Premiere People.

Saying that - I do understand what you mean, it took me about 6 months to find a new job, but there was jobs to apply for, and i did apply for them but just unsuccessfully!

olias

I live in a northern market town and there are virtually no jobs. Both local papers have at the most 4 or 5 jobs advertised in the sitsvac section and these are almost always either unskilled minimum wage care jobs, or jobs that require specific qualifications coupled with years of experience. If you try the job centre site searching under my town, it may come back with lots of pages of jobs, but you then see that apart from the handful of jobs as per the local papers, the rest are national sales type jobs on commision only or the laughable 'meets national minimum wage' tag.

I am all for the government getting workshy or fraudulent claimants off benefits, but how do they do this if there are no jobs for them to do? Surely what the governement should be doing is encouraging investment and growth in our manufacturing base etc etc etc and then encourage people off benefits and into the jobs that will hopefully then exist. As it is at the moment, there are none!

Olias

abertawe1

i live in swanse there are very little local jobs here even the jocentre site has started putting jobs from other cities on our area to make it look as if there are more jobs here its not looking very i am getting desperate now:mad: