There are plenty of jobs out there!

pineapple

Rupert_Bear wrote: »

If there are no jobs out there how is the the Job centres have vacancies.

In my experience a lot of them are minimum wage or thereabouts. Plus say you are a well qualified professional and go for one, the employer will think (probably rightly) you are just applying as a stop gap.
As for the rest, the competition is horrendous. Not only that, the job doesn't always exist. In my last job, my voluntary sector employer restricted advertising to the job centre because they wanted to restrict applications. In fact they were just going through the motions, because the person they wanted to offer the job to was an ex employee already working in the office on a short term contract.

Evilm

Notmyrealname wrote: »

When someone on Reddit said that every job they found needed experience and if I didn't believe them to look on the job search, I did just that. In less than 30 seconds in one category I found three that said no experience or training was provided. And I live in a sparsely populated rural county.

And I bet that was Door to door or Telemarketing? Not everyone can do those jobs (or get to them if they rely on public transport).

gettingready

Rupert_Bear wrote: »

As long as it is honest be prepared to do anything.

And I would not.

I did not spend years training/getting to where I was before losing my last job to now, at my age start looking at NMW jobs, sorry.

debtfreenow

I guess the obvious answer to anyone making such a comment is "Tell you what...I'll do a deal with you if you like. I tell you my job requirements and what I have to offer in the way of qualifications/experience and you find me a lead for a suitable job then. I'll pay you a bit of commission when I get offered the job and have started work in it then....".

To me, I would take that as a challenge to earn myself a bit of extra money and would be looking for a suitable job for the person concerned in order to help my own bank balance. The snag to that though is I wouldn't say something like "Plenty of jobs out there..." to someone anyway!

My guess is that anyone who received a "Let's do a deal then..." response to a comment like that would just say nothing and find an excuse to slope off out of sight though.

dandelionclock30

I honesty think if you have the skills where you can go for it and if you can get the work self employment is a good option. However, I know a lot of trades people and they say that they have trouble getting paid when they do private jobs!.

LisaB85

doom wrote: »

Have you never dusted or vacuumed your house, surely you have 'experience' !!

I'd be tempted to apply stating that lol x

LisaB85

Swings and roundabouts....I live in the country and don't drive so it limits my options and my nearest town is a declining seaside town, I can get to the city but the salary needs to reflect the extra travel expenses and needs to be near the bus/train station.

Anyway..

Up until last week I had 1 interview a week from the beginning of January but in the last week all the vacancies advertised have been engineering jobs.

I have seen office jobs where I fit the description incl having clait plus then they require you to know sage. Sage is fairly basic and wouldn't take long to teach I think they college courses to learn sage payroll were a total of 12 hours.

Edit, just checked and there is a sage payroll course starting in May an 8 hour course over 4 weeks.

I had to learn 2 government systems in the past so why can't other companies give someone that little bit of extra training.

dickydonkin

pineapple wrote: »

In my experience a lot of them are minimum wage or thereabouts. Plus say you are a well qualified professional and go for one, the employer will think (probably rightly) you are just applying as a stop gap.

Spot on - I can speak from experience there!
Factor in as well that if you are of a 'certain age' - the already difficult jobs market is much more so.

Age discrimination is supposedly outlawed - but I can assure you it is thriving in respect of recruitment!

dickydonkin

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

I honesty think if you have the skills where you can go for it and if you can get the work self employment is a good option. However, I know a lot of trades people and they say that they have trouble getting paid when they do private jobs!.

And getting funding from financial institutions for help in starting up.

gettingready

pineapple wrote: »

In my experience a lot of them are minimum wage or thereabouts. Plus say you are a well qualified professional and go for one, the employer will think (probably rightly) you are just applying as a stop gap.

Exactly - and the JC suggested I tone down my CV to get more interviews..... yeah - that I am not going to do, sorry.

Quite often when I called somewhere that I have applied, I was simply told that I am way overqualified/overexperinced for the job so was not shortlisted for an interview on that basis. Fine with me - till the RIGHT job comes along. NO way I am going to "tone down" my CV to get a NMW job, sorry.