The all new TG's gorra job, worra bout you thread

[Snoopy]

[Pastis]

Part of me is also dreading the idea of having to go through all this again in a year if I do get it.

Which part exactly? And what are the other parts doing whilst the dreading part is displaying reticence?  

[Bar Wench]

The job security bit. The idea of being unemployed again in a year is not one that fills me with joy.

Also would I have to sort out my own tax and NI? The list of questions to ask the agency gets longer and longer and I get less and less enthusiastic.

[Snoopy]

On a fixed term contract the employer is responsible for deducting Tax and NI. Only self employed persons need to do their own. There is no question.

One possible reason for this being a fixed term contract via an agency is that it reduces the fees payable to the agency by the employer. No agency is permitted to charge the employee for finding them a job. Employment agency fees are typically charged as a percentage of the salary. Most work to a sum equivalent to the first three months salary. 50% is charged when a person is taken on and the second 50% is invoiced at the end of six months employment. If the employee does not complete the "probationary" period (usually 13 weeks) then the Agency does not get the second payment. For Fixed term contracts, where no probationary period applies, it is normally treated like a "Temp" appointment and a flat fee is negotiated and paid once an appointment to the vacancy has been confirmed.

Other reasons for a fixed term contract might be that the employer is engaged on a research project that has fixed costs and thus a predetermined end date. This is quite common in pharmaceuticals (eldest daughter worked for Pfizers for some 3 years after joining them initially on a 1 year fixed term contract. She took maternity leave and returned after my Granddaughter was born. She only left them when she moved from Kent to Buckinghamshire)

[tel]

I have just spent the afternoon filling in an application form (girls school in Cheam). I had filled in most of the form and then I tried to paste in my bit about how I suited/fitted the job spec.
Bloody form went ballistic, all the boxes etc went out of alignment and jumped across pages.
Started again and found that things only went awry when you input more than 10 lines (A4 page approx). I am not generally regarded as a novice when it comes to these types of problems but I could not find a way round it.
Very frustrating to put it mildly.

Oh, and when I tried to email it across, the address was "unreachable"!
Sent it to the bursar instead. 

[Pastis]

I'd be inclined to print the form out, complete it in your best cursive script and deliver it by hand explaining that they clearly need someone of superior technical capabilities such as your good self 

[The Moan Ranger]

I have just spent the afternoon filling in an application form (girls school in Cheam). I had filled in most of the form and then I tried to paste in my bit about how I suited/fitted the job spec.
Bloody form went ballistic, all the boxes etc went out of alignment and jumped across pages.
Started again and found that things only went awry when you input more than 10 lines (A4 page approx). I am not generally regarded as a novice when it comes to these types of problems but I could not find a way round it.
Very frustrating to put it mildly.

Oh, and when I tried to email it across, the address was "unreachable"!
Sent it to the bursar instead. 

There are no real girls in Cheam, only mothers-in-waiting 

[Snoopy]

 

[tel]

I have just spent the afternoon filling in an application form (girls school in Cheam). I had filled in most of the form and then I tried to paste in my bit about how I suited/fitted the job spec.
Bloody form went ballistic, all the boxes etc went out of alignment and jumped across pages.
Started again and found that things only went awry when you input more than 10 lines (A4 page approx). I am not generally regarded as a novice when it comes to these types of problems but I could not find a way round it.
Very frustrating to put it mildly.

Oh, and when I tried to email it across, the address was "unreachable"!
Sent it to the bursar instead. 

There are no real girls in Cheam, only mothers-in-waiting 

You obviuosly go there more often than me.

[TG]

The job security bit. The idea of being unemployed again in a year is not one that fills me with joy.

Also would I have to sort out my own tax and NI? The list of questions to ask the agency gets longer and longer and I get less and less enthusiastic.

I suppose I would ask myself which would I prefer ; a year in full time employment but having to do my own tax or a year on my arse with little money and all that goes with it?

Bring on the tax forms!

[tel]

I have been shortlisted for an interview next wednesday. First one for about a year.

[Miss Demeanour]

Excellent news.....

We will be rooting for you 

[tel]

Thank you, these days, I need all the support available.

Rooting - such an evocative word. 

I am now off to a "job fair" at Fairfield Halls in Croydon.

I think it is merely a flimsy excuse for Mrs Tel to resume her retail therapy.


PS
Do I use the word "flimsy" too often?

[Snoopy]

Thank you, these days, I need all the support available.

Rooting - such an evocative word. 

I am now off to a "job fair" at Fairfield Halls in Croydon.

I think it is merely a flimsy excuse for Mrs Tel to resume her retail therapy.


PS
Do I use the word "flimsy" too often?

Apart from the two occasions in the quoted post you have used the word flimsy once before and that was on August 20, 2009 at 03:47:36 PM. 

I wouldn't say that was too often but only you know what the word conjures up in your mind.

[Miss Demeanour]

He's getting ready to go browsing Snoops