Difficulty finding work. Edit - This is now a baww thread.

[JiveBunny]

I have had two interview failures this week one Monday which was just a half baked job centre plus fairy dream. Two days of "interview techniques" 10 - 5 followed by a guaranteed interview with an agency at the particular warehouse.

I phone the agency booked my self in for registration same day have an interview next week.

Today I had an interview another agency for DHL I was interviewed by a snotty nosed boy with acne he did not put me forward for the induction on Friday. Something about what I was wearing or he was jealous his co worker friend was giving me the glad eye.

Textile trousers, ankle boots black, bomber, jacket scarf, squirt of mouthwash is what I wore.

Yet he put several scabby looking poles through one was wearing semen stained lonsdale bottoms couldn't spell for shit and smelled horrendous.

So another waste of time and fuel. Oh and it started belting it down with snow around twelve just as I was leaving so had a twenty mile ride home in a blizzard.

Now I am sat here feeling depressed. I have applied for four new jobs within fifty miles all posted today and phoned one which has already been filled.

I apply daily mainly warehousing but I am willing to do other things.

Am I trying too hard?

I have had this on and off with work since I was made redundant just over a year ago it is starting to take grind me down.

I never have any money when I earn the money I am paying back my over draft.

I sign on tomorrow my dole money is spoken for all £110 pounds of it.

I have insurance due on April.

I need a job fast.

What else can I do to get a job?
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[Pete.]

Maybe the others were all grown-ups?
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[andyscooter]

wearing bike gear in an interview is frowned upon

whenever ive been ive got someone to give me a lift so can turn up looking smart

as i dont know you personally i can only go by what you post on here but you seem to have a bit of an attitude

so far you have called people who offered to help monkeys (two seperate threads) and abused countless others

and the bloke who interviewed you a spotty nosed boy with acne

as he interviewed you im guessing he was in a mangers position so had got to that point somhow

im guessing you talked down to him

tl:dr lose the attitude for a while
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[daffy]

get a cv wrote n cold call/ send it out. ive been out of work since start of sept and doing that has gotten me a full time job, starting Monday!

[arry]

[Bomberman]

What were you doing when you got made redundant?
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[Chalky.]

[scorps]

What Chalky said
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[chris-red]

+1


Smarten yourself up and drop the attitude.
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[JiveBunny]

[drzsta]

+2, get off your high horse JB

[Bomberman]

[JiveBunny]

Sorry has anyone ever worked for an agency and no the usual process of getting a job via an agency?

Like I said poles were set on wearing joggers and looked like they just got off the lorry.

I didn't look scruffy I was smart enough other alternative get the bus twenty miles walk two to the warehouse to be told the same bullshit.
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[yaigi]

First of all, if you were sat there thinking 'snotty nosed acne faced little shit' then that may well have came across in your attitude so I'd watch out for that (I know some people are just insufferable upon meeting but try telling yourself 'someone loves them' and try and ignore any negative feelings you have about them at least for the interview stage!). Secondly - regarding what you wear, I would say it's probably better to be over dressed than under dressed - had you been dressed smarter than he would have had to come up wit a different reason. Give them no reasons to turn you down.

More often than not, for job rolls were the skill set isn't so important or the interviewees are very well matched in skills the deciding factor is personality - the person doing the interviewing wants to know that they are going to get on with you every day. Sounds like you might need fake it

The usual process of getting a job via an agency is much the same as getting any other job - they put you up for interview if they think you have the skills set, you go charm the pants off the interviewer, you get a job and the agency take a big cut of what your wages would be if agencies didn't exist.
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[andyscooter]

i used to work for an agency

got the job im in now through it

started temp contract for three weeks
work ed my balls off until it was up and they offered me the job

bit less money then i was getting but security and paid holiday so took it

that was 6 years ago

before that i was working for a car dashboard manufacturer and two days short of being there three months they laid all agency staff off

the only job i got by knowing someone was the apprenticeship
i had when i was about 19 at the wheelchair place and i had known them all since i was a kid myself and my old man worked for them

if the company hadnt gone bump i would still be there

every thing else ive done ive done myself dressing smart for interviews polished shoes look people in the eye and be confident but not cocky

dont mumble answers

find out a bit about the company before the interview
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[Bomberman]

[Pete.]

[Bomberman]

Just as a MASSIVE hint to you - compare and contrast this post and poster, with your post and yourself. Might give you a few clues?
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[Alpha-9]

Your attitude is your problem.

The scabby poles got hired over you, showing you are less employable than a scabby pole.

Drop the front and conform.
Also turning up to an interview in bike gear?

At least take the fuckers off, I wear my suit under my textiles.
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[JiveBunny]

I wasn't not polite the instant I clocked him hovering around in his hugo boss suit I knew he was a power hungry maggot parasite.

Eighteen at the most with a managers position turning away experienced workers in favour of immigrants who barely speak any English.

He didn't even give me a chance to open my mouth when he took me for a one to one.

Sat down;

"Based on your appearance I will not be putting you forward for the induction Friday".

All the time half a smug grin across his face I was going to make a scene but have done that in the past it got me no where.
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[andyscooter]

all the poles i know work hard take all the overtime they can and never moan about having to work hard

when my missus got her job at aldi there were two jobs going

a pole got the other one but there were 2000 people applied for each job

so that pole was better for the job then 1999 other people

they may of had more experience then you
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[N cee thirty]

So what if he was smug? he has reason to, you don't

So suck it up and play ball or go make your own business.
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[JiveBunny]

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[duhawkz]

JiveBunny your not related to Usually_Wrong are you ?
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