Sunderland afc
Player Valuation: £8m
Cheers. Off next week and going to start looking. That's the dream, get the money and have a job lined up
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TheAlmightyFloater
Player Valuation: £30m
Been a while since I posted - maybe mid-June(ish) - and at the time I'd graduated and was looking for work.
Since then my savings have vanished and I still hadn't found anything, so my only option was to sign on down the local job centre. Not trying to be disparaging to those on benefits but it's a bit depressing because it's not where I thought I'd be at this stage in life. Early 20's, decent grade honours degree and what I thought was decent prospects but that's life and there are more qualified people than me struggling.
Anyway I've been for a few meetings with work coaches etc and so far the experience has been surprisingly pleasant. I'd heard a lot of horror stories about it from friends and family but all the staff I've met have been really helpful and easy to get on with. I got good advice on improving my CV and got an interview from my first application. It's for a company that I'd love to work for, full time and closely related to my degree. The interview went really well and I've been called back in for a second one.
Not really found the interest in posting on GOT recently, been lurking more than anything for a couple of weeks. I really need a job to give me something to focus on and work towards. All this free time has me kind of locked in my own head and I don't do well with that.
How's everyone else doing?
Since then my savings have vanished and I still hadn't found anything, so my only option was to sign on down the local job centre. Not trying to be disparaging to those on benefits but it's a bit depressing because it's not where I thought I'd be at this stage in life. Early 20's, decent grade honours degree and what I thought was decent prospects but that's life and there are more qualified people than me struggling.
Anyway I've been for a few meetings with work coaches etc and so far the experience has been surprisingly pleasant. I'd heard a lot of horror stories about it from friends and family but all the staff I've met have been really helpful and easy to get on with. I got good advice on improving my CV and got an interview from my first application. It's for a company that I'd love to work for, full time and closely related to my degree. The interview went really well and I've been called back in for a second one.
Not really found the interest in posting on GOT recently, been lurking more than anything for a couple of weeks. I really need a job to give me something to focus on and work towards. All this free time has me kind of locked in my own head and I don't do well with that.
How's everyone else doing?
What's your degree in mate ?
There's plenty of posters on here can give great advice on the job market.
I'm an arl arse now and when I was your age a degree was a passport to a good job ( usually ). Doesn't seem to count for much now unless you're going for a high end professional job - medicine, engineering, architecture etc.
Nice one. Good luck with the second interview
Ashtonian
Banned on request
I will always recommend dropping into the royal with your cv mate and ask to be put on the administration bank . Loads of people do it and they just allocate you work as and when it is needed. But plenty of people alone have ended up working one place and then getting longer jobs or contracts. Quite a few clerks in our place started there got a contract or took the experience and moved up to better chance and contracts elsewhere.
I know it might not be first choice but plenty of work going
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
If you're on a break from GOT just make sure you call in occasionally to say hello. That way we know you're ( reasonably ) OK.
Daft though it may sound, there are plenty of folk here who care about you .... well, a bit anyway
Welcome back mate, my nephew was in a similar situation, he just kept plugging away and going to interviews and eventually things clicked and he landed himself a decent job from an interview where he didn't sense things had gone well.
Don't get too despondent I'm sure if you can be positive and treat it all as a necessary experience that you have to go through after Uni and listen to any good advice you pick up along the way.
Things could be worse,you have worked hard and achieved at Uni,you're not having to do resits which would have held you back..
I really hope you hear some good news soon on the job front,but be patient and believe something good will happen eventually and you can look back on this as a life experience.
BiggyRat
Player Valuation: £35m
Agreed. This, IMHO, is a result of every job now wanting some sort of degree which, again IMHO, has devalued the whole Higher Education somewhat. There's no accounting for those that are happy to start in the mail room & work their way up the system. Now, you need some sort of higher qualification to enter a mail room...nuts!
The way I see it is that those with a higher education should enter a company at one level, but those without can enter the same company at a lower level & work their way up. This, in no way, is meant to be disparaging of those without Degrees, far from it, it's all about relevant opportunity.
Oh, I could go on but I won't...[/soapbox]
Sunderland afc
Player Valuation: £8m
Agree with this. I started at 17 as a band 1 and now currently a band 8. Don't have anything in the way of qualifications really, which I guess will cause me issues moving forward. However, do have 26 years experience which I hope will help.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
If you take the reduction is there a chance you might get back to where you were in future if things were to improve? Or maybe it might open up possibilities to develop/grow in a different direction in the longer term within your current workplace?
Sunderland afc
Player Valuation: £8m
Aye I guess you never know. Without sounding arrogant I know what I'm capable of and it's basically the goal posts shifting that has knackered 3 of us. Anyway, if I do go down and decide to stay, if given the chance. I'll spend the rest of my life there proving them wrong. I worked my way up as I had the right attuide and I will need all that again to take the hit in the pocket and also not to let it affect me.
Even tempted to use that linr if I go down the scale to show them how much I will prove them wrong. The new role at my level would be a challenge but I'm more than capable of doing it. Problem is I've not been able to show it over the last year or so due to having to step in to do the lower grade stuff as if I hadn't then it won't have been done.
Just hope I remain this positive etc as we start the process. That's the problem with mental health issues you are not exactly in control.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
You will have days when it will seem a challenge you can relish, and there will be days when you wonder why you have been dealt this hand through no fault of your own. The key is to get through those days without doing or saying anything silly in my experience, and realising that you are having a bad day, not a bad life.
GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
I was in the exact same situation after graduating.
Signed on and couldn't find any work to do with my degree because of lack of experience.
After 8 weeks on the dole I had to get a job in a café, felt like a failure and thought I'd never get a job to do with my degree.
Worked in the café for 8 months and eventually got myself a really good degree-related job.
It's just all about keeping the faith.
Try get some voluntary experience to do with your degree. It looks really good on a CV and shows you're trying to stay relevant within your chosen industry.
Stretch the truth on your CV too, nine times out of ten they will never check.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
I'm not sure but I think I might be burning out from my job. Just always exhausted. Been in a kind of state of mental exhaustion all weekend. No desire to go out and meet people, cancelled one social gathering and one date possibility, just sitting around at home like I've had a sedative even though I haven't. Like being on a 48-hour caffeine crash or something. This is the 3rd time I've got into this state this year. Has anyone here had burnout? If so what is it like and how have you handled it?