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Offline Miss Demeanour

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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1275 on: October 15, 2009, 09:04:33 AM »
Really sorry Tel ...
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1276 on: October 15, 2009, 09:41:50 AM »
Am somewhere between suicidal and homicidal at the momemnt.

Still, I have orders to smash up a load of scrap wood in the garden.

Letting rip with a 2lb club hammer probably suits my mood at the moment.
It's knowing wheere to stop that's the problem.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1277 on: October 15, 2009, 10:17:00 AM »
If it screams then it's time to stop!

Hard luck tel ~ don't give up tho'.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1278 on: October 15, 2009, 10:21:36 AM »
Bad luck Tel.

Keep at it. You only have to succeed once.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1279 on: October 15, 2009, 12:58:05 PM »
Prospects are looking up for me it seems. The company I had an interview with yesterday want me to spend the day with them next week.  cloud9:


I also had an urgent text message from one of the employment agencies I registered with this morning. Almost three months of being on the books specifying IT or office management/administration and getting nothing from them. Guess what job do they send me details of. A cleaner/housekeeper role lasting for a week.  Banghead

Maybe I should look into setting up my own employment agency, Doesnt look like I could do a worse job than they seem to do.  rubschin:
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1280 on: October 15, 2009, 01:06:02 PM »
Employment agencies need to be registered ~ it is simple but registration does cost and there are hoops to be jumped through.

Of course you could join with someone already registered ............... Now who do we know  rubschin:
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1281 on: October 15, 2009, 01:08:55 PM »
Well having just emptied out my pockets I have a ?10 note, some loose change and a bit of fluff.  whistle:
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1282 on: October 15, 2009, 01:24:32 PM »
Fluff as in  eyes:

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Fluff as in  tunble:
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1283 on: October 15, 2009, 01:26:36 PM »
Seriously tho' I was registered but let it lapse with retirement. I ran my own "specialist" agency supplying Tutors when we first came to North Wales.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1284 on: October 15, 2009, 01:30:22 PM »
Its only an idle thought but all I've seen the agencies do so far is send me out an automated email. Apart from one call from one and a letter from another at the beginning this text was the first contact I've had in weeks and certainly the first from this agency.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1285 on: October 15, 2009, 01:57:22 PM »
The problem the agencies have is that they only get paid for each employee placed so they are not going to put themselves out looking for a job for you ~ no matter what they claim ~ they are more interested in working the other way round. First they get the contract from the employer and then they look in their files for the closest match they have in their lists of people who have registered as looking for a job. With the employment market the way it is the agencies are running on low staff levels themselves and will thus concentrate all their effort into finding vacancies safe in the knowledge that they will be able to fill them as there are people aplenty seeking jobs.

You, as a person, are frankly of no concern to them. As a peg to shove into a hole then you may have a value. Trouble is they have very few holes at the moment. Sorry if this realistic view offends or upsets anyone but it is the truth of employment agencies. Finding you, the individual, a job is NOT what they are geared to do. Finding someone (anyone) to fill a vacancy is what they are about. That is why the highest earners in employment agencies are those that go out and find the vacancies rather than those who look after the jobseekers.

I have never seen anyone in an agency say "Now where can I find a job for Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms XXX?". Their minds don't work that way as their question is always "Now who do we have on our books that we can send for an interview for this vacancy?" That's why you need to register with as many agencies (specialist agencies if you have a particular skill to sell) as you can and keep going back in, preferably weekly, to chase them along and keep your file up front. Don't be afraid to call in when "passing" just to chat and make sure you keep your file with every one of them updated with any recent experience gained, courses taken etc. You really do have to "work" the agencies to get anything from them. That is how you get from being just a file into being someone they will think of first. Otherwise any vacancy that comes in they will offer to the last three people they spoke to who look halfway to being what the client has specified.

Here endeth the lesson.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1286 on: October 15, 2009, 02:18:15 PM »
True enough, but even with that there would be a degree of targetted searching. There wasnt anywhere on my registration form that would even hint that I would be interested in a temprorary housekeeping/cleaning role. Surely common sense dictates that you only send out text messages to the people who would be looking for that kind of role otherwise you are just wasting money.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1287 on: October 15, 2009, 02:24:16 PM »
Enrolling with Scrubbers R Us was probably not the smartest move then  whistle:
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1288 on: October 15, 2009, 02:28:28 PM »
Texting is cheap and if you send a text to multi destinations it costs no more. They have a temping vacancy ~ it isn't worth much to them in terms of income so they apply minimum effort and text everyone who they have a mobile number logged for ~ somebody thinks "well it's a bit of cash and perhaps I can get away with signing on and not telling the Job Centre, after all it's only one week" and calls them to take up the vacancy ~ job sorted.
It's lazy, it's probably immoral but it's the way these things work I'm afraid. I'm willing to bet that whoever does respond positively to the text will get an offer of an interview within a week or so because they will now be classed as "co-operative" and their file will move from the cabinet to someone's desk.
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Re: TG's gizza job thread.
« Reply #1289 on: October 15, 2009, 02:29:48 PM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on October 15, 2009, 02:24:16 PM
Enrolling with Scrubbers R Us was probably not the smartest move then  whistle:

Cheeky mare.  lol:
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