Poor jobs market

Gavin83

True. I've seen people applying for technical IT (ie: not entry level) roles when they have no previous experience in IT or even qualifications in some cases. At least apply for jobs which are realistic.

Polarbeary

Firetastic wrote: »

I once went for an interview and 300 people applied for the job. The guy said he was going to interview every one and he would come in on his days off to do so.

That is actually insane!

Firetastic

Afterwards I actually thought that wasn't based on how good my CV was. It's not just me who's having problems.

Polarbeary

I'm on the books with 3 agencies for admin/PA/secretarial work and they are all saying the temp desks are quiet, no new jobs coming on, candidates keep telling them that. I've heard of employees in reputable private equity firms who haven't been paid for two months! Candidates with great CVs, degrees etc who have been made redundant or had job offers cancelled. I'm comparing this to a couple of years ago where I would have agencies ringing me all the time about jobs.

Hardly any new jobs are being posted on Indeed.

I've been lucky and have had a perm job offer today. After a couple of months with 15 interviews and about 200 applications I am thankful I can stop the horrible task of job hunting. I have never found it so hard to find a job.

Firetastic

Polarbeary wrote: »

I'm on the books with 3 agencies for admin/PA/secretarial work and they are all saying the temp desks are quiet, no new jobs coming on, candidates keep telling them that. I've heard of employees in reputable private equity firms who haven't been paid for two months! Candidates with great CVs, degrees etc who have been made redundant or had job offers cancelled. I'm comparing this to a couple of years ago where I would have agencies ringing me all the time about jobs.

Hardly any new jobs are being posted on Indeed.

I've been lucky and have had a perm job offer today. After a couple of months with 15 interviews and about 200 applications I am thankful I can stop the horrible task of job hunting. I have never found it so hard to find a job.

Good luck with your new job Polarbeary.

Sanne

Polarbeary wrote: »

I'm on the books with 3 agencies for admin/PA/secretarial work and they are all saying the temp desks are quiet, no new jobs coming on, candidates keep telling them that. I've heard of employees in reputable private equity firms who haven't been paid for two months! Candidates with great CVs, degrees etc who have been made redundant or had job offers cancelled. I'm comparing this to a couple of years ago where I would have agencies ringing me all the time about jobs.

Hardly any new jobs are being posted on Indeed.

I've been lucky and have had a perm job offer today. After a couple of months with 15 interviews and about 200 applications I am thankful I can stop the horrible task of job hunting. I have never found it so hard to find a job.

Congratulations and hope all goes well with the new job.

SomeRandomGuy

Gavin83 wrote: »

True. I've seen people applying for technical IT (ie: not entry level) roles when they have no previous experience in IT or even qualifications in some cases. At least apply for jobs which are realistic.

Of course you make an entirely valid point. However for a lot of unemployed people there is so much pressure from the job centre to be seen to be applying for jobs. If you don't apply for enough jobs (however ridiculously unqualified or unsuitable) you get sanctioned and left with no money..... not just for a week but for many, many weeks. I suspect that is where a lot of bad applications come from - well that an applicants who are simply desperate or deluded about their own abilities.

Polarbeary

This job seems nice but it isn't exciting me. I know I'm lucky to have found something but the pay is lower than my previous role. Right now I think I need to accept I've found something decent and stick with it. My Dream Job hasn't come back to me yet and that could be a few months to start IF I get it.

Ivana_B_Rich

Polarbeary wrote: »

This job seems nice but it isn't exciting me. I know I'm lucky to have found something but the pay is lower than my previous role. Right now I think I need to accept I've found something decent and stick with it. My Dream Job hasn't come back to me yet and that could be a few months to start IF I get it.

I'm in a similar position, so I totally sympathise.

I'm well aware I should be grateful to have an offer (good salary, great commute and seemingly nice company) and there are others out there who would be delighted right now but I know it's not the job I want.

I HATE being unemployed and the whole job seeking process is so emotionally draining it really gets me down, I'm just not sure that's a good reason to take the job.

Sorry to all of you who are trying so hard right now for my first world problem. I'm wishing you all lots of luck

Polarbeary

Ivana_B_Rich wrote: »

I'm in a similar position, so I totally sympathise.

I'm well aware I should be grateful to have an offer (good salary, great commute and seemingly nice company) and there are others out there who would be delighted right now but I know it's not the job I want.

I HATE being unemployed and the whole job seeking process is so emotionally draining it really gets me down, I'm just not sure that's a good reason to take the job.

Sorry to all of you who are trying so hard right now for my first world problem. I'm wishing you all lots of luck

It's rubbish isn't it? I'm sure there are many who would want this job but I don't. But I need it! No new jobs seem to be coming out, jobs at other large companies are put on hold after I've got an interview, I can't keep doing this and being out of work longer and longer and using up my savings.

Well done for getting a job in this climate. Take it, wait a year or two and then hopefully the market will have picked up and the EU referendum will be done (?) and the USA election dust will have settled. Hopefully the economy will improve. Somebody told me I will think myself lucky if things get worse over the next few months as I'll be in a stable, secure, perm job!

If we are headed for a 2016/17 recession we are all in for a bumpy ride...