Arrrgghhh so angry, for those who say just get a job stacking shelves

Greenst

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I get so angry looking at posts on this site from people desperate to get a job where replies say "well just get a job stacking shelves". Or "get a part time job" or "a summer job in a supermarket until something else comes up"!

There are no jobs out there! Those in work just don't seem to get it and reading through the posts on here the 'advice' seems to be from people who are happily in work. I have been lucky to have recently found a part time job it's only 2 days a week and min wage, today I got sent home early as the work has just dried up, I am hoping and praying that next week when I go in there will be work and I won't be laid off, and that's after a year of looking for full-time work.

A friends daughter is looking for summer work until she goes back to college, she has already had her EMA stopped thanks to government cutbacks and lost her job recently in a little local supermarket due to lack of business, even though she has retail experience she has tried all the big shops, Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda etc but there's nothing, not even stacking shelves.

I wish people would stop saying find a job in a supermarket, there so many posts on here from people who are completely dumbfounded when they find that there are either no jobs in the supermarkets or they have had interviews or sent their CVs and not got a job, even though they may be well qualified or what some would consider over qualified.

It's NOT easy out there at a time when what used to be considered 'lowly' jobs are difficult to come by and secure.

pleasedelete

Is is harder for students as eMployers know they won't stick around

As with everything it depends where you live, what you will do and how flexible you are

925dancer

I agree with the OP.

Hundreds of applications for every job, employers market making requirements incredibly specific.

There might well be jobs out there, in fact yes there are but by no means are there enough. It's a lottery with the odds not much better than the actual lottery.

I remain polite when I'm told to "just get any job", ah if only it were that easy!

I started trying to get a second part-time job in October, didn't care what it was as I had gone back to college to retrain having been unemployed for a period last year unable to find work. Queue March this year when having only managed to find 2 weeks temping at Christmas I hit financial meltdown and had to leave college.

I have lots of experience and can tailor my application to fit a huge variety of roles, I've applied for approx 120 jobs and had 4 interviews. Still unemployed.

Let's see those on their blinkered high horse try to find a job at the moment.

DCFC79

There are jobs out there, not as many as there used to be though.

Miss_Scrooge_2

Getting a job in a supermarket is actually more difficult because, despite there being vacancies all the time, EVERYONE applies to them and the odds are always against you.

DCFC79

Miss_Scrooge wrote: »

Getting a job in a supermarket is actually more difficult because, despite there being vacancies all the time, EVERYONE applies to them and the odds are always against you.

i think its harder because theres graduates applying for the jobs and so the bar of expectation has been raised, just a wild theory of mine.

Forwandert

DCFC79 wrote: »

i think its harder because theres graduates applying for the jobs and so the bar of expectation has been raised, just a wild theory of mine.

Graduates tend to try and use retail jobs as a gap fillers whilst applying for jobs they actually want, it tends to get a little tedious training people you know aren't planning on staying around for long, i wouldn't say they have any advantage at all when you bear this in mind.

DCFC79

Forwandert wrote: »

Graduates tend to try and use retail jobs as a gap fillers whilst applying for jobs they actually want, it tends to get a little tedious training people you know aren't planning on staying around for long, i wouldn't say they have any advantage at all when you bear this in mind.

oh yes i accept that graduates will use the job as a stepping stone,

starryshell

And don't forget that professionals who apply for jobs such as stacking shelves, etc. are usually told they're overqualified and aren't even considered.

DCFC79

starryshell wrote: »

And don't forget that professionals who apply for jobs such as stacking shelves, etc. are usually told they're overqualified and aren't even considered.

thats another issue as well,

Martin001

What I've noticed is, because I'm in the North-East, employers see 'University' on the CV and just ignore the entire thing. They're tarring people with the same brushes with their little application forms and pidgeon-holing, and as soon as they see you're decently educated and have prospects they say "Well, this person won't hang around" and just ignores the application. I'm more than happy to work a job that is supposedly "beneath" my prospects-level to make ends meet and to get off the dole, but employers don't want that. They just see "Uni equals not staying" and don't even bother to reply to anything...

I've applied for, and I kid you not, ~275 jobs over the last 3 weeks. Of that, I've heard back from 6, and one of those was a job in Canada that I applied for because I have ALWAYS wanted to emmigrate there at some point. I was planning at retirement age (ie in about 40 years) but if I could have landed the job... :}