SavvyJobHopper

After some weeks of contemplation and a range of feelings that take you to the brink of destruction I have decided now is the right time to return and help anyone who is at all interested in reading this and currently trying to find work in any of the industries I have knowledge of.

Due to the crap economy we are no longer just facing discrimination within the HR fraternity; (well I say HR but they are just as much a pawn in the game, keeping the big bosses straight on what they can and can’t do), we now face a new problem volume; there are simply too many of us.  I have often sat with a pile of C.V.’s sorting them into a ‘Yes’, ‘No’ and a ‘Maybe’ pile but now the ‘Maybe’ pile has gone and everything is black and white.  The criteria is so strict it does not matter how dynamic your C.V. and covering letter is if you’re not wearing a tie you won’t hit the ‘Yes’ pile!

Employers have not the foresight to see that we all have transferable skills and for those that are a little older and wiser and just not ready for the scrap heap it is a hard pill to swallow.  Don’t get me wrong we would all love to have a life of luxury but few of us are born with that silver spoon anywhere near our mouth.

Over the next few weeks I will be developing this site to include information for job hunting and training to find sustainable employment and if I can help one person in finding a job or new way of life then I will have succeeded. 

As for myself, I will not give up but as I have found out once before in the last recession, the need for my expertise is no longer required, after all employers will hardly train people to be competent to do their job let alone develop them at a time like this.  Most employers do not understand the need for a trained workforce and only train people because they feel it is the thing they have to do to gain the ‘Investor in People’ status so they miss the point completely.  It is merely an expense with no benefits which make you wonder how they made it to a position of authority.  I have only come across a couple of managers who were willing to help other individuals to further there careers. Most Managers are full of their own self importance and point score on how big their company cars are, they line  their own pockets and make sure they employ people underneath them that fall short of their own intellect to guard against them being found less capable.  Born Managers/leaders are few and far between and so most require training to equip them for the task ahead, unfortunately companies promote but do not train and we often hear comments like ‘what did they do to get promoted’ (this is the clean version). Many times I have thought the same and it has happened in quite a few of the industries I have worked in, you later find that nepotism played a large part in the selection and so was born that great saying ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know!

Well I will sign off now to look for information which may help us all on our way to a brighter future.

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Tags: « cv - job hunting - recession - sustainable employment - transferable skills »
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What an experience all the smokers huddle round the door like it’s some great social meeting place, you walk in and you greeted by a very nice man who tells you that you are on the list and you may go to the ball Cinderella.  Then you are sent to the next level were you are greeted again by another very nice gentleman who checks to make sure you are on his list and low and behold we have two lists and your on both, it’s your lucky day!   So you sit down and wait for your name to be called and two very pleasant interviews later you too have joined the exclusive club called the DOLE.   This is all very different to the first time I signed on in the late seventies, back then the people were different and pleasantries were not part of the deal.  When you signed on you were made to feel it was totally your fault you were there under false pretences.  Only three words were ever uttered, NEXT, NAME and SIGN.  Much the same as it was portrayed in the sitcom BREAD.  That reminds me now times are hard I must get a chicken for the centre of the table.

As some of us have very little to look forward to at the minute I must tell you guys out there something really important and you need to know this with Valentines Day coming up, YOU CAN’T EAT FLOWERS, so don’t waste your money.  We need comfort food like chocolate but only the best will do and I think that has to be  Hotel Chocolat, it is heaven and even the worst day can be lost as you bite into that sumptuous silky smooth bar.  Thank goodness for the Aztecs if it wasnt for them inventing the beer-like beverage; chocolate might never have evolved and then were would us women be, we would have to rely on sex! 

Time to recharge and get ready for another day on the trawler and lets hope the net has no holes in it.

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Today is my fourth day of no work and on the scrapheap of life.  I have dropped my little boy off at school and walked the long way home through fields which was very theaputic and all visions of me throwing myself under a train as I crossed the track disappeared.   So here I am trawling the internet for jobs which don’t seem to exist.

I could get really mad at the injustice of it all specially when you hear how some people you once had the misfortune of knowing, lets just call them the Witches of Eastwick, say ‘we won’t miss her after all she didn’t do anything’. Well Miss Smart, for your information, I did do something but it was all beyond you.  So lets put all the bad things behind us and move on because that’s what survivors do, they use the lesson’s they have learnt and are strong enough to realise these little people who have caused them harm are nothing and will be left in their own strange deluded world whilst we travel to the next adventure.

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Well here I am again facing the big bad world without a safety net.  The company I worked for have just decided I don’t have the face they want and when they cut me open I did not have the company name through me like a stick of rock!  Don’t get me wrong I worked hard like all you good people out there, stayed late put in hours at home just to try and bring the company into the 21st century in record time but as usual some people had not got a clue what it was all about and thought they new best.  What’s that saying ‘ If you always do what you have always done you will always get what you have always got’ or something like that.

So here I am wondering in which direction to go thinking do I really want to go to another interview and give another presentation to a bunch of uninterested clowns and answer their question that seem to have no relevance to the job in question.    The answer is simple but who will pay for the lifestyle we feel we deserve so it’s back on the bike and knocking at doors. I now feel like Yosser Hughes ‘gizza job!’ as life becomes as it once was in the eighties and jobs become few and far between and we all shout ‘I can do that’.  Well for all those people who are now unemployed for what ever reason and I know there are many try to let your mind rest and keep telling yourself as I do, it will be ok and I will survive this and I will preserve everything I have.

Sleep tight.

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Tags: « Gizza Job - interview - lifestyle - Yosser Hughes »
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