Employment

[Visitor Q]

Righto then.

I'll try to keep this to as few options as possible (I know there will be shoehorning).

How secure is your job at the moment that you know of (ie are you in retail/construction etc), or are you currently looking for work?

Lowest demand since 1997 apparently

Fan-fucking-tastic
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[CaNsA]

Im secure in my job at the moment, but as i am a IT contractor i will be looking for another contract in the next couple of weex as my current one finishes in mid april.
Hopefully it wont be to difficult and coupled with the amount of Security clearance i have coming out my ass i wont be limited buy the sector i can work in.

Fingers Crossed

[owdamer]

We're quiet in some areas but busy in others where i work.
We processed returned electrical goods for catalogs (check for faults, repair if faulty, repackage for resale) and this side is still quite busy. We also repair and resell large lcd & plasma tv's for a few manufacturers. Again we're pretty busy. we were selling about an thousand a week at the end of this year and were looking to up that to 1400. Bit quieter on some other conracts though. customer repairs and some supermarket returns.

(Mind, i've been off sick since mid November so things may have changed......)

[The Shaggy D.A.]

You missed "Looking for work, not claiming JSA".

[Fawbish]

Fairly securely employed, until the end of my Apprenticeship (which is a very hazy subject, considering it goes on when and what qualifications I send off...there isnt a specific date.

Im not naive though, they could fuck me off as soon as they liked.

Recently survived redundancies, so at the moment, not massively fussed.


Can see my company not doing so well next year though, as the economy continues to degrade. I work in the airport baggage handling industry, people just wont travel as much or as frequently without as much disposable income, thereby meaning airports do not have surplus for large systems, meaning less contracts.



My actual role is fairly usable, as Im an electrical design engineer....though my skills are fairly transferable, thankgod.

I would probably have a fair bit of trouble getting employment if given the hoof, and would have to settle for a lower paid job doing a less responsible job.

Not good with the amount I owe
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[tatters]

Very unsecure job at the moment current company lost the contract for the site l work on though it is,nt really there fault as the client cut the engineering/services budget from £1.2 million a year to £600k and then want them to accept unlimited liability which is madness for a 650 million pound site.

might get the option to tepee over but the new company pay much lower wages prefering to use cheap foreign engineers for £22k than paying British electricians the going £32k+ rate.
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[Visitor Q]

[colin1]

I was on JSA, then I stopped claiming it, and soon after got a job.

Being on JSA can get a bit too comfy, if you have cash that can be burned by coming off JSA, it does tend to focus the mind to getting a job.

Coming off JSA did give me the kick up the arse I needed to make more of an effort in my job search.

I start my new job on Friday. I think its going to be good, pay is best I've ever had, it may even be a real graduate job. I'll soon find out.

Its a sales job of sorts and there is no such thing as a secure job in sales, but in my first year, my targets are training targets not sales targets, so its like being paid to train.
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[Visitor Q]

[Skudd]

I'm self emplyed so always looking for work but dependant on demand. At the moment it is a bit slack but starting to pick up. The scare mongers are doing no good. It is alright these people going on and on about how bad things are but it doesn't help any recovery. we know things are poor at the moment but being force fed it all the time really doen't help.

There is money out there to spend just people are scared to spend.
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[JonB]

I've got three serious options lined up for when I leave uni, with 2 assessment days/interviews coming up. Another job that i'm pretty certain I can secure if I put my mind to it. The luxury is that I know I will enjoy every job on the table so will have the lovely situation to be able to pick what I want to do, provided I get the offers.

I can't see Bonny how you are struggling to find work you've got a decent degree. If I wanted more options for work it's so easy...
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[Itchy]

Accountancy is tenous , very , firms aren't hiring new and don't seem to be replacing lost staff...

Insolvency however is doing incredibly well.

Maybe you should look father a field , I ended up in Germany and Asia in a particularly terrible period of unemployment.
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[JonB]

The lowest job i'm looking at starts at 22k, the highest starts on about 26k.

It's not about being a history graduate, i'm looking at jobs that any degree can have a pop at. Which is kind of why I didn't want to tie myself down with a degree that would make me feel obliged to continue into a line of work somewhat related to my degree.
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[Visitor Q]

[GhostRider]

[Annabella]

[Visitor Q]

Aye ghostrider. All sound advice. Just not particularly good at the moment. Every job has 40-50 applicants (Reed keeps track) within a couple of days.

Also, I'm of the second branch of graduates. Those who believe a BSc is worth sweet titty fuck all in your field.

Luckily I have a fair lump of experience in the field, which should help.

But yeh, I'm applying for /any/ lab position at the moment. Got lumbered working as a post bitch for a month (with occasional autoclaving and incubator cleaning) to try and get some lab experience.

Sadly they noticed there was a recession pretty much just after I started
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[GhostRider]

[skinny]

I did think I was OK but the past two months of getting my pay in dribs & drabs says other wise.
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[Visitor Q]

[Fawbish]

Start simple mate, I know it might sound a tad childish, but to "Human Resources Department/To whom it may concern/The actual Companies name" are all legit ways to start. Theres no way you can always pinpoint who you want to be writing to, as you have no way of knowing if they even have those Job titles, let alone anyone with any sense. EDIT sometimes scouring a company site (if they have one) can lead you to names and titles etc, but again, if its a large-ish company they wont read it themselves.


One thing I learnt is that a lot of companies are far less formal than they would want to appear to be.

You could send in an eloquently written letter, but it will still be a monkey that reads it.
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[GhostRider]

[J0Al1]

With no money in the pot to give anything mroe than a mear few hundred pounds pay rise last year. . my company is recruiting 5 new people now! and are offering loads more then the ppl that are aready there get . . . . assholes.

Hertford - IT project work - if ya interested VDI stuff - I wont like you if you join

[_Will_]

Securely employed, but still looking.
Lowish pay i'm not happy with, but finding anything half decent is becoming a bit of a joke
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