Support Each Other in Looking For Work - Pt 2

JamesK10

Things are looking up, just in a strange way! The agency advertising one job that was patently fake for the amount of times it turned up, emailed me directly to offer something else. Sadly it's not for me (and was cold-called by someone doing the same job) but that makes a change.

Plenty of longer term temp placements around, if I get one that's six months long, then that's the best I've done since graduating, to have money for the whole of winter and start again next Spring. Still focussing on the permanent jobs, now that the Olympic extensions to deadlines will finish for the bank hols and the normal lists will start again a week tomorrow.

yerblurt

Hi.

Never really posted on MSE before, posted my situation here;
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4132057

I'm looking for jobs, any jobs really...

JamesK10

Working next week but that was as scheduled, once this batch finishes it'll be September - but a couple of really good jobs have been re-advertised which means they're either fake or the agents have been told to re-advertise by the companies - if I've applied before, should I apply again to keep my hand in?

I don't know whether apps from the first time the job was advertised are scrapped or recorded. If there are less jobs around because of the bank holiday cutoff I'm thinking re-apply though, although they'd be second priority to brand new jobs.

JamesK10

Another week's work came in after the scheduled stuff, so things are fine, this weekend it's back to catching up on the full time lists that won't be back up to full speed before next Tuesday. Someone agreed to look at my CV not for a job but for an employer's eye view if there's anything stopping me getting interviews, you can only cut out so much before you just have to leave it the way it is.

Felt good to have money coming in and be able to save it for the bills that land at the end of the month, so onwards and upwards!

JamesK10

Off goes another application but now all the general sporting hoopla has finished and the tennis happened overnight, I can get back to the apps properly targetting the very best before going back to list drilling.

Not bothered about phoning agencies about jobs now to make sure I'm not wasting my time and theirs (ie, if the jobs have gone or were fake). There was one good role at this other place, sent my CV in on request but if they don't respond in a week I'll happily go to a different branch in the same chain, their job is to find a job and if the first agent can't be bothered the next one might! Just glad things have generally started back again.

Treehugged

Hi fellow JH, I just wanted to share my good news. I have been offered a role, which I interviewed for last week and will be starting on Monday. It's within my sector: NFP and it's a project manager role that's funded until 2014, which helps!

Now, without sounding smug or judgmental, I do think that one of the reasons for finally landing a job is because you'd have to surgically remove my laptop from my lap because I was that obsessed with finding work. (Almost) day in day out I was online looking for work or filling out job applications forms, emailing my CV, etc. Sometimes I'd apply for the same role twice!

All to say, don't give up , keep going. If you are able to, try to adjust your mindset and view the task of job-hunting as looking for the proverbial needle: If you look hard enough you'll eventually find it.

Remember to get out of the house a few times a week, even if it's to chill out at your local library. It beats looking at the four walls of your house and brooding.

Most of you know this already but it's aimed at those who are despondant

EndlessStruggle

Well my new job happiness has worn off in a big way lol. I'm having non stop problems with members of staff there!

JamesK10

EndlessStruggle wrote: »

Well my new job happiness has worn off in a big way lol. I'm having non stop problems with members of staff there!

I'm surprised you even had a honeymoon period to begin with, work is work, you need it to pay your bills and you have it now, you go in and stand up for yourself in as assertive a way as you can, that won't land you in a tribunal.

After going direct to company sites yesterday I've stopped looking at just job emails and now drill through the list of whatever's newly posted to agency sites, looking at the last four days' ads at a time but only applying to those from the last 48 hours. Hopefully that will generate some more responses.

JamesK10

Gone for the only Royal Mail Xmas work that I could travel to without a car, I'll see what comes of that, if it doesn't happen at least I went for it. Feels better to be focused on the search and just keep applying until I'm too tired in the evening and have applications out there.

JamesK10

Treehugged wrote: »

Now, without sounding smug or judgmental, I do think that one of the reasons for finally landing a job is because you'd have to surgically remove my laptop from my lap because I was that obsessed with finding work. (Almost) day in day out I was online looking for work or filling out job applications forms, emailing my CV, etc.

Sometimes I'd apply for the same role twice!

All to say, don't give up , keep going. If you are able to, try to adjust your mindset and view the task of job-hunting as looking for the proverbial needle: If you look hard enough you'll eventually find it.

Remember to get out of the house a few times a week, even if it's to chill out at your local library. It beats looking at the four walls of your house and brooding.

Most of you know this already but it's aimed at those who are despondant

Congratulations and in fact, did you ever get any interviews at the roles where you applied twice? I've done this myself but only because they were advertised at two different sites a few months apart. When you never hear back it's hard to know if it was you, or the job not being real.

Early dinner over with and back to the ads!