Support Each Other in Looking For Work - Pt 2

looby75

Drea wrote: »

Aww looby, I can't believe you're still looking try to keep your chin up, maybe look into doing Avon, Betterware, etc for some extra cash? I've applied to sign up to Avon. I figured if I'm out of work for a while at least I can say I've been doing something if questioned about it.

It's much worse now that it was 9 months ago and it was bad then! I don't know how I'll find anything especially when any reference I give for my last job will say "failed to pass probation period"!

Last time around I felt quite confident and it still took 5 months to get something, just feel down this time.

even the avon aren't recruiting new people in our area, they already have too many! I went to a recruitment night a while back and the rep admitted that the area is saturated and they will only take people on who are willing to only sell to friends and family and not door step

It sucks about the reference too, but employers aren't stupid (well some aren't lol) and I'm sure they will have seen that kind of thing happen before, if you are up front about it it might not be such a big deal.

Drea

looby75 wrote: »

even the avon aren't recruiting new people in our area, they already have too many! I went to a recruitment night a while back and the rep admitted that the area is saturated and they will only take people on who are willing to only sell to friends and family and not door step

It sucks about the reference too, but employers aren't stupid (well some aren't lol) and I'm sure they will have seen that kind of thing happen before, if you are up front about it it might not be such a big deal.

Oh I didn't think of them not recruiting... I don't have friends and family close enough.

Yeah I'm not sure whether to be honest about it or whether to try and get away with older references.

looby75

Drea wrote: »

Oh I didn't think of them not recruiting... I don't have friends and family close enough.

Yeah I'm not sure whether to be honest about it or whether to try and get away with older references.

it might be different when you live, I'd give it a try anyway. The rep did offer "territories" in a town about 15 miles away, but I don't have a car so it wouldn't be possible for me.

November5th

Drea wrote: »

Oh I didn't think of them not recruiting... I don't have friends and family close enough.

Yeah I'm not sure whether to be honest about it or whether to try and get away with older references.

Just say that the new management were looking to reduce the headcount or something and it was just bad luck, most will sympathise. Are you able to use one of the old managers for refs?
Hopefully they will just ask hr for from and to dates...

Slinky

Sorry to hear you're back looking again Drea.

If you're going to do Avon self employed, you'd need to register as self employed and pay NI contributions (forget which class they are) at £2.50 a week.

My husband's on a contract that's supposed to be between 1-3 months, he's about 6 weeks in, so we're still continually looking. He's got a company who have interviewed him on the phone for another contract who want to see him in person, but the date's been rearranged 3 times already, currently waiting for another date.

JamesK10

Bad luck Drea, but they're a bad memory now, just tell any future interviewer exactly what happened, which is that incoming new management decided to make a change for their own people and you would have liked to have stayed as you "always give new jobs a year" rather than chopping and changing.

Sadly in this economy firms think they can treat people like dirt, any company with a probation longer than six months, I just view it as a contract job.

I'm working on two apps at the moment, both reasonable jobs, one was highlighted by an agency but on the actual company site it says no agencies. So I'm going direct but will check other jobs at the site that made the recommendation as it's the first real hit since I started looking for full time stuff after graduation. Temping in the meantime.

November5th

Presentation for interview went well, so if nothing else I have made an improvement in that area. Onward and upward

Stew68

Hard luck Drea, it is true that at the moment employers can do what they want with no care for the people who do all the hard work. It's not nice but it's the way of the world out there.

I'm still looking for a permanent job that is more suited to my skills, i've been in this temporary position for about eleven months now and was due to be laid off at Christmas but got kept on at the last moment, never too sure when the axe is due to fall again.

Unfortunately it is even harder out there now than it was at this time last year. I haven't even had a call back from one of my applications since the start of last December. Very difficult to keep a positive slant on it all.

Good luck with the job hunting everybody.

Drea

Well done November fingers crossed!

It's a shame that employers can do what they like and treat people how they like, I guess it's their market at the moment though.

It's nice to see some of the old regulars (although in a way not nice at all!) :hello:

JamesK10

Best new job this week was the second one at a place where I'd seen a good one, but the deadline was tomorrow. The new one is almost a carbon copy of a job I'd done five years ago so I concentrated solely on that because I could walk into it and do it tomorrow in my sleep.

Still spent five hours on the covering letter making it perfect without copying and pasting my entire CV before I sent it off, but you have to just move on to the next one nowadays and not look back.