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razorbladekisses wrote: »

I think we should just throw Phil into the BB house next week.

Now there's an idea!

studentphil

Good night, I am to sort out some more applications.

Melissa177

studentphil wrote: »

Alright, so can I do to get a decent job if all what I have is worthless?

FOR F*CK'S SAKE PHIL, DO YOU NOT READ ANY OF THE ADVICE THAT WE HAVE GIVEN ON HERE?!!!!!!

Myself and many others have spent time posting suggestions, and I think it is exceptionally rude for you to come back on here and post comments like that when you haven't taken any notice of them.

Get a grip.

Melissa177

studentphil wrote: »

I go over and over it because I just get so over powered by it all and never feeling success and I just have to vent it somehow. My friends can get jobs at city banks and really top jobs and I just get no where and just makes me some sad with myself.

I know the answer is getting a job and it will cheer me up.

Why do you think they have top jobs? Because they have - *INITIATIVE*

You don't have any initiative, you just have excuses. Get some initiative.

Hapless_2

Phil..this is my last word on this thread but...

Central Student Administration
Financial Aid

Clerk
(Full-time 35 hours per week)

You will be responsible primarily for the administration of financial aid schemes and you will also provide support to the Senior Clerks in the team. You will hold 5 GCSE’s (grade C or above) or equivalent, including English Language and Mathematics. With excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel and Access, you will be a team player and possess excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills. Ideally you will have experience of working in an office environment. This post is available immediately.

University Grade 3 (£13,339 - £14,854 p.a.)

Informal enquiries to , email v.j.lomas@adm.leeds.ac.uk

To apply on line please visit http://www.leeds.ac.uk and click on ‘jobs’. Alternatively application packs are available from email financialaid@leeds.ac.uk

Job ref 017137 Closing date 1 June 2007

Interviews are expected to be held on 12 June 2007

You have until Friday to get your application in!

http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ShowVacancies.aspx?Category=Clerical

lewt

astonsmummy wrote: »

but that doesnt explain why you keep psting the same thing over and over again, ignor peoples suggestions and basically put up with a load of ribbing.
If you truly are real i suggest you sign up to a depression forum and seek help there, there are lots about and loads of people who will be able to help you, because posting on here is clearly getting you nowhere.

the undepressed one will be back in a min

Melissa177

Hapless wrote: »

you will be a team player and possess excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills

No good for Phil then. :rolleyes:

Sammz

Sounds similar to the one I started off in at Uni. Except I had year and a half office experience and 2 years of office courses at college.

Savvy_Sue

studentphil wrote: »

I see what you mean about the burgers now. It is not really a safe hobby for him to have by

Oh for goodness sake, I don't disapprove because it's not safe, I disapprove because I worry he might get arrested! Although I worry more about the drinking than the barbecues, but my disapproval doesn't stop him having friends and going out with them and doing I don't know what!

it's not necessarily safe for him to go 5 minutes down the road to the shops on his own, but he's 17, he'll be leaving home in 18 months, I can't hold his hand and take him everywhere!

studentphil wrote: »

I thought it worked like that and you could learn on the job but it seems you have to be perfect or you have no hope of a job.

I thought they told you there was someone better on the day? So, perhaps that someone better already had till experience, and experience of everything else they wanted doing, and moreover perhaps that person gave a better impression than you at interview.

Truly, unless you are completely different IRL to the way you appear here that would not be hard ...

studentphil wrote: »

There are no lower jobs than office assistant.

Well, with that attitude you're bound to get it!

We have an office assistant, and even though she only works two days each week I really miss her on the days she's not there! I am the administrator, which you may think is only a little above an office assistant - we both do the very mundane things like answering the phone and the doorbell. Neither of us is in next week, and they are REALLY going to miss us.

(In fact I'm not in for another 5 weeks, time off for good behaviour, and boy are they going to miss me! :rotfl:)

studentphil wrote: »

Working in a shop is not going to get me a job at a university. I need office work and not shop work to get me into getting a job at a university.

Ever heard of a University bookshop? Oh, and most have a shop of some sort, don't they? In fact what with universities being money-making industries in their own right these days, I expect most departments have some form of cash income, if not an actual till.

studentphil wrote: »

It is possible for other people everrything always is but not for me as I am useless you tell me, my parents tell me, employers tell me.

It horrifies me that you have spent 3 years studying Philosophy yet have not the slightest grasp of logical language, without which Philosophy founders.

ONE potential employer told you that they did not offer you a job because there was a better candidate on the day. More than one employer has not invited you for interview. Numerous posters have explained to you how selection works. Surely, logically, you can work out what the problem is? IT IS NOT THAT YOU ARE USELESS (although you seem determined to demonstrate that you are unable to "read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" any advice offered.)

studentphil wrote: »

No, I did read it but surely I am not that useless that I am unemployable in some sort of officce worrk that is paid.

No-one's saying you are unemployable, we are simply suggesting that you might be MORE employable with recent office experience. You keep moaning that there will always be someone better than you on the day, and if you sit at your computer feeling sorry for yourself for the next 6 months, guess what? There WILL always be someone better than you on the day.

I spent 12 years doing fiddling little part-time office jobs when the children were young, but I also did voluntary work. On the strength of that voluntary work, I got a full-time job managing a team of secretaries after we moved. When I was describing my new job, one of my sons wanted to know how I'd got to be so important! :rotfl:By working damn hard, that's how, even when I wasn't getting paid for it.

And had it ever occurred to you that voluntary work could lead to a jolly good career? We use a lot of volunteers in my current job. Half of our staff started as volunteers. And they weren't given jobs as a formality: there was a rigorous selection procedure where we bent over backwards to make sure that candidates who didn't volunteer with us weren't discriminated against. And in some cases volunteers have applied and NOT got the job they wanted. So don't start with the "It's always rigged in favour of people who are already 'in'".

razorbladekisses wrote: »

I think we should just throw Phil into the BB house next week.

:T

ellybelly89 wrote: »

it would be intersting :rolleyes:

Yup, he'd be right out of my life for the duration! :rotfl:

Catseyez

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Oh for goodness sake, I don't disapprove because it's not safe, I disapprove because I worry he might get arrested! Although I worry more about the drinking than the barbecues, but my disapproval doesn't stop him having friends and going out with them and doing I don't know what!

it's not necessarily safe for him to go 5 minutes down the road to the shops on his own, but he's 17, he'll be leaving home in 18 months, I can't hold his hand and take him everywhere!

I thought they told you there was someone better on the day? So, perhaps that someone better already had till experience, and experience of everything else they wanted doing, and moreover perhaps that person gave a better impression than you at interview.

Truly, unless you are completely different IRL to the way you appear here that would not be hard ...

Well, with that attitude you're bound to get it!

We have an office assistant, and even though she only works two days each week I really miss her on the days she's not there! I am the administrator, which you may think is only a little above an office assistant - we both do the very mundane things like answering the phone and the doorbell. Neither of us is in next week, and they are REALLY going to miss us.

(In fact I'm not in for another 5 weeks, time off for good behaviour, and boy are they going to miss me! :rotfl:)

Ever heard of a University bookshop? Oh, and most have a shop of some sort, don't they? In fact what with universities being money-making industries in their own right these days, I expect most departments have some form of cash income, if not an actual till.

It horrifies me that you have spent 3 years studying Philosophy yet have not the slightest grasp of logical language, without which Philosophy founders.

ONE potential employer told you that they did not offer you a job because there was a better candidate on the day. More than one employer has not invited you for interview. Numerous posters have explained to you how selection works. Surely, logically, you can work out what the problem is? IT IS NOT THAT YOU ARE USELESS (although you seem determined to demonstrate that you are unable to "read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" any advice offered.)

No-one's saying you are unemployable, we are simply suggesting that you might be MORE employable with recent office experience. You keep moaning that there will always be someone better than you on the day, and if you sit at your computer feeling sorry for yourself for the next 6 months, guess what? There WILL always be someone better than you on the day.

I spent 12 years doing fiddling little part-time office jobs when the children were young, but I also did voluntary work. On the strength of that voluntary work, I got a full-time job managing a team of secretaries after we moved. When I was describing my new job, one of my sons wanted to know how I'd got to be so important! :rotfl:By working damn hard, that's how, even when I wasn't getting paid for it.

And had it ever occurred to you that voluntary work could lead to a jolly good career? We use a lot of volunteers in my current job. Half of our staff started as volunteers. And they weren't given jobs as a formality: there was a rigorous selection procedure where we bent over backwards to make sure that candidates who didn't volunteer with us weren't discriminated against. And in some cases volunteers have applied and NOT got the job they wanted. So don't start with the "It's always rigged in favour of people who are already 'in'".

:T

Yup, he'd be right out of my life for the duration! :rotfl:

Great post SS...but I think your efforts may be in vain