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Oct 23, 2006 22:15:17 GMT
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Well ive been unemployed for about a month now... maybe... Anyway I'm 18, got 5 C or above GCSE's which is average i guess, and a certificate in manufactoring engineering from college. Now I'm finding it IMPOSSIBLE to find a job, everyone wants already trained people or people who have just finished an apprenticeship. Can anyone help me out? Ive tried every job site i can think of and all want people as ive said above. I'm not just wanting a job so i can afford to run my car, anything now  i feel desperate as its got to this stage. |
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Oct 23, 2006 22:19:54 GMT
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Are you looking for anything in particular, or just work. It may be worth while speaking to a few recruiting agencies and see what they have on offer.
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down to one car!!
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Oct 23, 2006 22:20:51 GMT
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go to a place that has a position that u would want and offer to work for them for free for a week!
and if they like your work they can offer u a job.
if not they can simply get some one else.
it shows that u are willing to put in the effort and they can get to give you a trial run without the risk....
just an idea but it might just work....
si
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Oct 23, 2006 22:25:13 GMT
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Are you looking for a job in the manufacturing area or just any job?
If your after any kind of job buy the local paper and have a look in the situations vacant sections.
Places like DIY stores and Petrol Stations are always after people.
If your after a job in your specific area of expertise, go and visit some manufacturing companies and ask them if there is any way you can get involved with them.......Sometimes its worth just turning up and start going on about how you've always wanted to work for them and were wondering how you go about it.
There are plenty of jobs out there if you go looking for them!
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Oct 23, 2006 22:32:52 GMT
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A month? thats not too bad!
Ive been out of uni for six months now, a 2:1 degree in motorsport engineering, and experience, and still nowt!
As said previously go for work experience this shows commitment, ethuseasm (sp?) and willingness to work. It will usually lead to a job of some sort.
Job sites and agencies are useless, these people generally don't know what thye want from life and have no passion for anything, this shows in their commitment to the job they do and their clients, i.e. nill!
Go scouting on the interweb and get cold calling, tell them who you are and what you want to do. Companies admire this pioneering spirit and sheer balls.
Wehn hunting for a job you really want, youve got to roll with the punches, and there are a lot of them as when you hit a belter, youll get the job.
don't give up, and don't be disheartened
J
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Oct 23, 2006 22:37:45 GMT
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As said previously go for work experience this shows commitment, ethuseasm (sp?) and willingness to work. It will usually lead to a job of some sort. Job sites and agencies are useless, these people generally don't know what thye want from life and have no passion for anything, this shows in their commitment to the job they do and their clients, i.e. nill! Go scouting on the interweb and get cold calling, tell them who you are and what you want to do. Companies admire this pioneering spirit and sheer balls. This is VERY true. I (and many others) will always choose the person who does their homework and makes their own path over a donut who expects an agency to do the leg-work for them. it's worked for me in the past too... I landed a job with the industry leader in my field by applying 'on-spec' and off my own back. Comapnies like it too as agency fees are crazy considering how long it takes to embellish and pimp a cv... |
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Oct 23, 2006 22:41:57 GMT
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I know the feeling, I was given my redundancy notice 3 weeks ago now, got another week left. I've been to loads of job interviews but no one wants me Registered with loads of agencys, sent loads of letters and done loads of cold calls, but there just isn't any work. I've been a CAD engineer for 7 years now. Got a HNC in Mechanical Engineering and stacks of other quallifications, but they would rather get in new young people that cost pennys that they can train rather than someone that knows what there doing, can be left alone and gets on with the job but costs a lot. Gotta get something sorted soon though, this mortgage isn't going to pay its self. |
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ryan
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Oct 23, 2006 23:06:49 GMT
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I completely agree, i'm in the same situation, finished 6th form this summer got a handfull of A-levels but yet i cant get hold of a job that i would like. does start to get tediuos when you speak to loads of companys and get nothing back. It is one of those things where persistence will pay of in the end  |
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Oct 23, 2006 23:08:27 GMT
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First you need to decide what to do. Then when you know what you want to do, go and do it with enthusiasm, charm and wit and you'll succeed.
curse word the GSCEs. Always remember enthusiasm, charm and wit.
And a clear direction.
Charlie
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Oct 23, 2006 23:10:30 GMT
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"dash"?
I said F uck
What is this forum coming to when a grown man isn't allowed to swear?
Charlie
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thanks for the replys people. Id like to do classic car restoration, but ive emailed several companys and none of them were intrested in me. I'm not qualified but I'm willing and i have many many pictures of work ive done at home. At the moment i just want a job, my car went pop a couple of months back and ive ran a little daewoo since and i just hate it. I want to run my capri again, anyway its stored away at the moment and when it comes back its going to get fixed and once its fixed it has to go my parents tell me. However i want to run it so its the daewoo that will go as its just down to room, only problem is this is putting a deadline on when i can find a job as ill need a car and i cant have 2. Ill look in the paper last time i looked there wasnt anything, and ive just been on the jobcentre website and theres nothing. I'm willing to just do anything  looks like I'm not the only one whos just out of education and get find a job then too. |
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as said above really, choose the companies you would like to work for and get speaking to people - offering a free months work is a very good suggestion. Actually speaking with people is the only way to make anything happen in this life. don't email either, its just an excuse for you to claim you've done something and them to hit the delete button!
BTW - i know Millers Oils are looking for a head of marketing at the moment.
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How hard is getting a job?!slater
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Why don't you do an apprentiship? its the best thing ive ever done. You will have no trouble at all with getting one with your qualifications. I know its too late now this year so get a job in tesco or somewhere to tide you over to next september.
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Its not too late this year. I am interviewing for an apprentice in about 2 weeks. Most companies synchronise their apprenticeships starting with the GCSE/A level results but we were unable to recruit so I am at second advert now. There will be others. Have you spoken to your local Connexions Centre? www.connexionsdirect.co.uk/ and find your local from there. You will get careers guidance and help with CVs, applications, interview prep etc. Its free - use it. I was made redundant for the second time last year. I got the second job I interviewed for and I was out of work 7 or 8 weeks. I have a ton of experiance and was willing to work for below the going rate for my job so long as I was back in work and doing something I'd enjoy. A couple of guys who were cut the same time as I was still have no permenant full time work. Its a bad market, especially for experianced people. I interviewed a few months back for a post where I had asked for GCSEs and 2 years experiance. I got guys with post graduate qualifications and some stuff I had to go look up on the internet! One guy I interviewed was about 50, had been out of work 2 years and this was his third interview in that whole time. He about cried when we asked him why there was nothing on his CV for the last 16 months... He'd been IT manager for a large engineering firm, it went bust, now he's applying for entry level jobs at £14K pa On the other hand employers are crying out for good people. It may not seem it right now but they are. Some of the people who even made my shortlists recently I wouldn't give a job to in a million years. I know of jobs which have been advertised 3 or 4 times because they can't find the right people. Good luck. |
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i would suggest an agencie aswell thats how i got my job
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If you need to keep the wolf from the door while looking for the "right job", have a look at your skill set - not just your quals. Anything in there you can do? Welding? Why not set yourself up.
We went through a rough patch over the last year, Mrs ZS can make curtains like nonbody, so, a small ad in the local paper, loads and loads (I mean loads) of leaflets through doors and The Curtain Lady was born. She's booked until Easter now!!
Working in MacD's will sap your will to live and restrict your ability to move on. Working for yourself will show potential employers that you have motivation, determinationa and you will learn loads of skills useful to them as well as others like bookkeeping, cashflow management time management etc.
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phatphord
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also worth a thought as its around that time is start a short course or night school to get yourself a few more experience related quals and experiennces...Avoid stuff thats gonna sap your will to live as ZS says, I tried the call centre thing and it near drove me mad...Keep hunting and you'll find summat,keenness shows through.
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the biggest problem you are facing right now is motorvation,i was sacked (long story) and unemployed for 3 months right over the christmas period.i found it very hard to keep getting up,buying the papers and chasing for interviews.in the end i set myself a routine.i would get up early as usual ,take the missus to work,stop off at the paper shop for the local rags etc and spend all morning looking and chasing.in the afternoon i would do my typing and posting.and then the rest of the time before i went to pick up the missus was surfing tinternet ,fish4jobs etc .setting yourself tasks and targets for each day helps too.patience will out and you will find a job,i had to make a huge change in career to get one but so far so good.it means you have money coming in and that makes jobhunting sooo much easier.
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redundant, twice in 3 months, after 5 years solid work.
Been out for 1 1/2 months now and only managed 6 interviews, despite sending out approx 100 job applications.
problem is, I'm a job taught, industry experienced 10 years in the biz Web developer. In that situation, you don't get time for additional book learning. You learn and research what you need to do the task in hand, and no more.
But just before I got laid off the second time, the degree results were out.
So suddenly, there are a bunch of kids, with more skills, some with sideline work experience, and willing to work cheaper because they are "first jobbing". WTF chance does someone, nearing 40, starting to go grey and needing enough to meet a mortgage stand, when up against a spotty oik who works for enough to pay rent on a bedsit and enough nights on the lash that they can come in bragging about their hangovers.
I guess I might just be too old for the industry I've been in. Sickened.
Thing is, the only other jobs I know really well is supermarket shelf stacking, and working the counter in a bookies. I stopped sweating my curse word off for minimum wage when I was 20, and being spat at, sworn at and curse word on (when not being robbed) by the regulars lost it's charm when I didn't need the money to top up the student grant.
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redundant, twice in 3 months, after 5 years solid work. Been out for 1 1/2 months now and only managed 6 interviews, despite sending out approx 100 job applications. problem is, I'm a job taught, industry experienced 10 years in the biz Web developer. In that situation, you don't get time for additional book learning. You learn and research what you need to do the task in hand, and no more. But just before I got laid off the second time, the degree results were out. So suddenly, there are a bunch of kids, with more skills, some with sideline work experience, and willing to work cheaper because they are "first jobbing". WTF chance does someone, nearing 40, starting to go grey and needing enough to meet a mortgage stand, when up against a spotty oik who works for enough to pay rent on a bedsit and enough nights on the lash that they can come in bragging about their hangovers. I guess I might just be too old for the industry I've been in. Sickened. Thing is, the only other jobs I know really well is supermarket shelf stacking, and working the counter in a bookies. I stopped sweating my balderdash off for minimum wage when I was 20, and being spat at, sworn at and curse word on (when not being robbed) by the regulars lost it's charm when I didn't need the money to top up the student grant. what web dev skillz do you have meatball. Can't promise owt but we do have the odd web project from time to time and it's always nice to know? |
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i feel desperate as its got to this stage. 
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