Employers no longer offering interview expenses, Travel to Interview scheme ended

wantsajob

Hammyman wrote: »

Your fault for looking for jobs 800+ miles from where you live. An employer in London will have plenty of applicants suitable for the job within 60 miles so they have no reason to be bothered about the travelling costs of an applicant from Scotland.

I would actually go as far as saying it would HARM your application asking for travel expenses for interview because it shows a lack of enthusiasm, an "I'll come to the interview but only if you pay me" attitude.

Maybe those are the only jobs in his/her field? Maybe there is no similar jobs closer.

IMO it is to a company's benefit to pay people they think would be good for the job, and who want to work there, so they can bring in talent. I cannot see why people would think you would only come if expenses for getting there were paid, after-all it is only reasonable expenses being requested - not a pi$$ take. It's not our fault fuel costs and train costs are so high these days - and at levels people without jobs can ill afford.

Does a willingness to up and move over 800 miles, away from friends and family, for the sake of a job, not give a good impression to an employer?

Googlewhacker

wantsajob wrote: »

Maybe those are the only jobs in his/her field? Maybe there is no similar jobs closer.

IMO it is to a company's benefit to pay people they think would be good for the job, and who want to work there, so they can bring in talent. I cannot see why people would think you would only come if expenses for getting there were paid, after-all it is only reasonable expenses being requested - not a pi$$ take. It's not our fault fuel costs and train costs are so high these days - and at levels people without jobs can ill afford.

Does a willingness to up and move over 800 miles, away from friends and family, for the sake of a job, not give a good impression to an employer?

It does but whats the point when I have 6 people on my doorstep that have just as good a CV?

Andy_B_4

This is what my problem has been for the last year and a half.

I work as a web designer for a College in the north east. Unfortunately, all the jobs are down south. I'm registered on tons of online job sites like reed.co.uk and monster.co.uk which I check more or less every day and in the past month or so, the number of jobs related to my field up here were 1. Comparatively, down south and in the Surrey region there's tons of jobs.

Regarding the jobs up here in web design, nine times out of ten they want a graduate or you'll apply and get nothing back. Given that I a have 4 years of experience and now being made redundant due to a restructure in the college, applying for work interviews can't be done with any frequency for me - maybe once or twice a month.

Getting interviews isn't a problem for me though, but given I am not being given the jobs or any useful feedback I am left wondering what to do.

Part of me think it's because of these places lumping me with this unspoken reputation of institutionalized, jobs worth attitude of people in the public sector which is unfair because I know plenty of hardworking people in the public sector - I'm one of them. Just a paranoid guess, but yet another thing I have to contend with.

Another thing, that I don't already live down south - I'm guessing the employer sees this as inconvenient.

But in my case, I have a brother living in Ascot so I can relocate IMMEDIATELY. So it's a lot of stress wondering where the hell I am going wrong. And now I am losing my job and wanting to find work asap, the fact such a scheme has been pulled makes me wonder what I'll do next.

Working in a job unrelated to my field most like - nothing against doing that as work's work, but in terms of what I aspire to continue with - web design, it feels like career suicide.

Good to know my educational/commercial experience equate to nothing and there's support out there...

HappyMJ

Andy_B wrote: »

This is what my problem has been for the last year and a half.

I work as a web designer for a College in the north east. Unfortunately, all the jobs are down south. I'm registered on tons of online job sites like reed.co.uk and monster.co.uk which I check more or less every day and in the past month or so, the number of jobs related to my field up here were 1. Comparatively, down south and in the Surrey region there's tons of jobs.

Regarding the jobs up here in web design, nine times out of ten they want a graduate or you'll apply and get nothing back. Given that I a have 4 years of experience and now being made redundant due to a restructure in the college, applying for work interviews can't be done with any frequency for me - maybe once or twice a month.

Getting interviews isn't a problem for me though, but given I am not being given the jobs or any useful feedback I am left wondering what to do.

Part of me think it's because of these places lumping me with this unspoken reputation of institutionalized, jobs worth attitude of people in the public sector which is unfair because I know plenty of hardworking people in the public sector - I'm one of them. Just a paranoid guess, but yet another thing I have to contend with.

Another thing, that I don't already live down south - I'm guessing the employer sees this as inconvenient.

But in my case, I have a brother living in Ascot so I can relocate IMMEDIATELY. So it's a lot of stress wondering where the hell I am going wrong. And now I am losing my job and wanting to find work asap, the fact such a scheme has been pulled makes me wonder what I'll do next.

Working in a job unrelated to my field most like - nothing against doing that as work's work, but in terms of what I aspire to continue with - web design, it feels like career suicide.

Good to know my educational/commercial experience equate to nothing and there's support out there...

Join the club. Yes it is career suicide to put it on your CV shelf stacker for 1 and a half years so what you need to do is just 1 day a week voluntary work for a local charity helping them with Web Design. You can then put Web Designer for charity xxx from jan 20xx to dec 20xx and list what you did. You do not need to mention it was only 1 day per week. Also, do not put your address on your CV. You could when asked mention both addresses to which you have access to.