Is there a lack of ordinary jobs in your area?

falko89

What I mean by an ordinary job is a job anyone could do or a job that would require very little training.

If I look at the last half dozen jobs posted in my area I get.

Italian/English Junior European Sales Executive
Registered General Nurse
Teacher
Practice Nurse
Care home manager
Vice Principle

And you get another 6-7 of these posted daily within a 10 mile radius but ordinary jobs are rare, And if you look at Reed.co.uk which shows the actual amount of applications you get anywhere from 1-5 applicants, hardly anyone's applying for them.

kingfisherblue

There are usually several care work jobs,a few delivering leaflets type jobs, and occasionally something a little more challenging that would require qualifications. In fairness to the care work jobs, they are a mix of basic level jobs and those that need more experience and at least NVQ2, sometimes higher.

Our local paper comes out once a week and there are maybe fifteen jobs in total, but this could be due to the high cost of advertising in the paper. An advert about two inches high and three inches across costs about £500+VAT.

falko89

Our local paper that used to have 3 pages of jobs now has half a page, and its taken up with 2 proper jobs and the rest with crap from Red and Avon.

marybelle01

falko89 wrote: »

Our local paper that used to have 3 pages of jobs now has half a page, and its taken up with 2 proper jobs and the rest with crap from Red and Avon.

What you find in the newspaper is no longer any test of the jobs market. Newspapers are exceptionally expensive ways of recruiting for any job, and the lower paid the job is the more expensive this method is. I live within strking distance of four major cities, and not one of them has the sort of newspaper job advertisments that they used to. But this is because many employers aren't using them. The place I work (16,000+ employees) never advertise in newspapers. For exceptional and highly paid jobs, they occasionally use specialist media. Otherwise every job, from low to high, is advertised on the website and via the Jobcentre and that is it. We can get more than enough applicants without any other advertisements and it costs nothing.

thegirlintheattic

Other way round up here. Loads of un-skilled jobs - nearly nothing that requires any skills or more than a handful of GCSEs, with salaries to reflect that. Then the council wonders why there is a 'skills drain'.

falko89

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Other way round up here. Loads of un-skilled jobs - nearly nothing that requires any skills or more than a handful of GCSEs, with salaries to reflect that. Then the council wonders why there is a 'skills drain'.

Around here a lot of people who are skilled etc commute into the city daily for the fact the moneys a lot better, and if you think about it, if you have people from towns across the country commuting into the city daily there is gonna end up a lack of jobs in the city, so then you have skilled locals in the city who can't get work and loads of jobs out side the city that no ones to fussed on doing because of the salary, that seems to be what's happening around here at least.

And as for the unskilled work, well most of us have something we are qualified,trained in etc, 90% of what I apply for is unskilled, just something that would do for a while until something better came along that would match my skills, but if you have everyone doing this your gonna have a hell of a lot of competition in the unskilled market for what few jobs there are.

falko89

marybelle01 wrote: »

What you find in the newspaper is no longer any test of the jobs market. Newspapers are exceptionally expensive ways of recruiting for any job, and the lower paid the job is the more expensive this method is. I live within strking distance of four major cities, and not one of them has the sort of newspaper job advertisments that they used to. But this is because many employers aren't using them. The place I work (16,000+ employees) never advertise in newspapers. For exceptional and highly paid jobs, they occasionally use specialist media. Otherwise every job, from low to high, is advertised on the website and via the Jobcentre and that is it. We can get more than enough applicants without any other advertisements and it costs nothing.

Yes well I also notice the same, most jobs end up in the job centre as its free to advertise, well I say most jobs, it seems to be care workers, and part time unskilled work such as cashiers, cleaners etc.

jfh7gwa

marybelle01 wrote: »

not one of them has the sort of newspaper job advertisments that they used to. But this is because many employers aren't using them. The place I work (16,000+ employees) never advertise in newspapers. For exceptional and highly paid jobs, they occasionally use specialist media. Otherwise every job, from low to high, is advertised on the website and via the Jobcentre and that is it.

That pretty much mirrors my experience over the last few years.

High-end jobs (skilled/experienced roles) get:
- put on the website
- usually sent to the recruitment agents (basically our authorised head-hunters - not recruitment agencies that do temp jobs or scatter-shot stuff)
- uploaded to LinkedIn, either for paid ad or on the company page bit (not all all the time - seems to be hit and miss about which dept has given the go-ahead to recruit)
- team leaders get an email to ask if they have any professional/networked folk they'd like to flag the vacancy to.

Unskilled, line-worker/temp roles get sent to the Job Centre, put on another section of the website, and emailed around everyone (all employees).

Oh, and all vacancies are added to the internal vacancy section of the intranet, of course.

Nowhere in that mix are newspapers.

falko89

Look at this crop of !!!! posted yesterday.

Registered General Nurse
Registered Nurse
Technical Engineer
Care Home Manager
Registered General Nurse
Charge Nurse
Technical Manager
Deputy Care Home Manager

That was all that was posted yesterday in a 15 mile radius of where I live. And people on here wonder why I have trouble finding jobs to apply for.

Dunroamin

falko89 wrote: »

Look at this crop of !!!! posted yesterday.

Registered General Nurse
Registered Nurse
Technical Engineer
Care Home Manager
Registered General Nurse
Charge Nurse
Technical Manager
Deputy Care Home Manager

That was all that was posted yesterday in a 15 mile radius of where I live. And people on here wonder why I have trouble finding jobs to apply for.

Only looking in a 15 mile radius for your job hunting is very restrictive even in good economic times - in a recession it's madness!

falko89

Dunroamin wrote: »

Only looking in a 15 mile radius for your job hunting is very restrictive even in good economic times - in a recession it's madness!

I can't drive.