Where do you look for jobs?

westv

InsideInsurance wrote: »

It all depends on your function/ industry/ grade.

Personally I renew my CV on Monster and change my status on LinkedIn and clear my diary for a week to field all the calls from agents. Some will have roles of interest, some are just fishing and others are totally inappropriate.

I wish I had your luck!

I just find that my technical reinsurance excellence is just ignored by insurance employers and agencies.

InsideInsurance

Reinsurance is a black art

For those with more transferable skills there are certainly tiers within Financial services.... banking -> Lloyds/ London markets -> GI -> Life

Think RI is such a curve ball it probably doesn't fit on the scale :P

westv

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Reinsurance is a black art

Yes, that's the normal reaction I get from employers when applying for roles!

InsideInsurance

I am not surprised, I worked on a project to redesign the outbound reinsurance processes/ software for a client and those guys just talked another language to the rest of the world.

For some of the more in depth discussions between my client and the software vendor about the software packaged capabilities, only the RI manager, the software company's Product Manager and (thankfully) my Business Analyst knew what the hell was going on.

westv

It wasn't until I got made redundant that I wished it wasn't such a 99% City of London based sector.

brutus1983

My brother was laid off 6 months ago he went out in the real world with a bag full of his cvs instead of sending off emails or phoning up he went knocking on doors walking round and asking in person handing his cv over by hand he was only unemployed for a week

fleesaurus

brutus1983 wrote: »

My brother was laid off 6 months ago he went out in the real world with a bag full of his cvs instead of sending off emails or phoning up he went knocking on doors walking round and asking in person handing his cv over by hand he was only unemployed for a week

Exactly. Handing in CV in person is a lot more effective. The general consensus is it's becoming a tradition to apply online, but if you read statistics, people applying in person are unemployed for a shorter period of time than those applying online.

Horace

I use Indeed.co.uk, Fish4jobs, jobcentreplus. I am also registered on the NHS website, some university websites and on Civil Service Gateway. I also look in newspapers - typically the free one that comes through my door but if I was looking for a job in London then I would look in The Times newspaper or The Guardian.

westv

brutus1983 wrote: »

My brother was laid off 6 months ago he went out in the real world with a bag full of his cvs instead of sending off emails or phoning up he went knocking on doors walking round and asking in person handing his cv over by hand he was only unemployed for a week

What sort of jobs? What sort of companies? As has been said several times that does matter.

westv

fleesaurus wrote: »

.....if you read statistics, people applying in person are unemployed for a shorter period of time than those applying online.

Where are those stats then?