Applying for jobs.

Anonymous

Hi.

I'm starting to get application forms and that for a summer job when I come back from Manchester but it's all confusing.

First thing is, anyone know if places like Tesco and Sainsburys have plans so if you get a job and you are a student in the holidays they can relocate you to a store near where you are studying when term time starts again?

Also, I'm wanting to apply for jobs now, but since I'm at college I cant start untill like july when I come back, so I suppose I have to tell them I'm unable to start a job if I get accepted untill say the 1st of july, some application forms dont ask you when you are available to start, should I include a note or something with the application form?

These application forms seem to have quite abit of detail on, like your education and that, tesco not so much, so should I include CV's with them?

Any insight would be aprechiated

Thanks
Will.

Anonymous

Will, just do exactly as it says on the application form, I doubt they'll want a CV but it'll say if they want one.

Big firms like Tesco and Sainsbury's will allow you to transfer between term time and holiday time...

ride_whenever

get a job in a bike shop instead, far more interesting, and once you include the staff discount, it works out that you make a lot more money...

Anonymous

I'd like to get a job in a bike shop, but I dont know any that would employ me?

I dont have any cycling qualifications.
I've never had a job before
Any shop that knows about me and my Aether wont employ me

I'd not know where to start.

finchy

Thought about getting some work on a farm? With a reduced influx of immigrant labour this year farmers might still be looking for people for the summer period.

teagar

Getting jobs anywhere is a ballache at the moment. Just try anything and everything.

Anonymous

I do worry if anywhere will accept me though.

I've applied at Morrisons once and I never got accepted, same for wilkinsons, probably because I've never worked before.

I get worried that if I get a job, they might put me on checkouts and I wont know what to do, I mean what if I am struggling to scan food through fast enough they'll sack me I bet.

Anonymous

Yep, and fine you too.

Anonymous

Wait...

You've never had a job at all?


WTF?

I got a paper round at 11 then was working in a restaurant at 13.

Worked all the way through uni too.

Not just for the money but, well, so I had a job, making it easier to get another job!

redddraggon

Macdonalds have a high turnover in staff, I'm sure they'd give you a job, and you'd have free food.

Anonymous

NapoleonD wrote:

Wait...

You've never had a job at all?


WTF?

I got a paper round at 11 then was working in a restaurant at 13.

Worked all the way through uni too.

Not just for the money but, well, so I had a job, making it easier to get another job!

Nope I've not had a job.

I did want a paper round when I was about 11 but my parents would not let me :roll:

I'd like to find somewhere that might hire someone who's not had a job before, either that or I guess I'll be destined to end up living on the street and maybe use my bicycle and travel until it breaks down then die a lonely death in some deep gutter down a steap hill in the dales only to get picked and eaten by vultures circling me only to have found me by the scent of my rotting body decaying.

dbb

the bike shop is the go.
just go in and ask to talk with the manager and ask him/her if they have anything going.
don't worry, they will show you the ropes and give you any basic training that you will need.

i worked in bike shops to get me through uni - it was much more fun that filling shelves in the supermarket! i think i lasted 3 days with that one.

pottssteve

Will,
I've had a wide variety of part-time and temporary jobs, and it's worth at least applying for stuff you might like. I've done the supermarket thing - shelf stacking is boring, middle managers can be jumped up little t*ssers and you may well be treated like cr@p. I've done the fish and chip shop thing - you smell of fish. I've done the retail shop work thing - mind-numbing. Anything to do with the "public" can be a royal headache as most of the public appear to be morons.....
The best jobs I had involved you being active a lot so the time whizzes by. You get physically tired but it's good exercise. Outdoors is good (usually).
Sign up with an employment agency and look through the phone book/internet for places you might want to work and send off your CV - what's the worst that could happen?
Good luck!
Steve

STEFANOS4784

Depends on how fussy you are as well. My 1st 'proper' job i just called up an agency(Bailys) and said i wanted some work and they gave me a job. I started the following monday, had to stop in the office on the way, to sign some stuff and give some i.d, then off to work
However, it was in a meat factory in Chippenham which was 1 and 3/4hours away and was horrendously boring and depressing, but they'd let you work as many hours as you could deal with so i ended up with double shifts and all sorts,earned a fair bit o' cash.
Wouldn't do it again though :evil: :?

pottssteve

Oh, I forgot,
Try to get something where you will pick up some skills of some description. Anyone with half a brain can stack shelves (apparently... ), but you make yourself a bit more employable next time if you learn something while you get paid.
Steve

Anonymous

See I asked at Edinburgh bicycles if they had some jobs some time back and they said no they've got enough people, and I rekon they want to employ people with some propor experience.

There aint many bike shops in Manchester from what I seen, only about 4.

And here there is only 2, Halfords and selby bike center, I know for a fact selby bike center is not reqruiting, it's just the husband and wife in there, and Halfords... well..

I signed on at an agency in the last summer holidays and they only got me one thing but I was unable to do it at the time, they never called back since.

I can keep looking and applying for jobs, just if I dont find one my parents WILL make me sign on at the job center for JSA and I know how everyone hates people who sign on at that.

My mum rang up a cousin who is the boss at this company and he said unfortunatly they are not reqruiting as they've also got enough and also because of what it's like this year but if it was last year he'd have said yes, that was at this labratory testing pesticides and stuff for crops.

redddraggon

willhub wrote:

I can keep looking and applying for jobs, just if I dont find one my parents WILL make me sign on at the job center for JSA and I know how everyone hates people who sign on at that.

Can you even get the dole if you are in full time education?

Anonymous

redddraggon wrote:

willhub wrote:

I can keep looking and applying for jobs, just if I dont find one my parents WILL make me sign on at the job center for JSA and I know how everyone hates people who sign on at that.

Can you even get the dole if you are in full time education?

You can inbetween I think. Hopefully in this case they wont allow me

My neighbour is going to dig her lawns up sometime, I'd have offered to do the whole lot by myself with only a shovel but then I found out they are getting a bloody great JCB into do it


I'm also wondering, I'm doing an IT course at college, so that sort of work I could get with those qualifications is destined to be sat on a desk 9-5 or more is it not? I cringe at that now.

Anonymous

willhub wrote:

I'll be destined to end up living on the street and maybe use my bicycle and travel until it breaks down then die a lonely death in some deep gutter down a steap hill in the dales only to get picked and eaten by vultures circling me only to have found me by the scent of my rotting body decaying.

Well....

It's a future!

redddraggon

willhub wrote:

I'm also wondering, I'm doing an IT course at college, so that sort of work I could get with those qualifications is destined to be sat on a desk 9-5 or more is it not? I cringe at that now.

Join the RSigs and do some networking somewhere hot and sunny then.

Anonymous

Does not understand.

redddraggon

willhub wrote:

Does not understand.

Stewie Griffin

redddraggon wrote:

willhub wrote:

I can keep looking and applying for jobs, just if I dont find one my parents WILL make me sign on at the job center for JSA and I know how everyone hates people who sign on at that.

Can you even get the dole if you are in full time education?

No, JSA is Job Seekers Allowance, payable to anyone seeking full time work, which you cant do if you are in full time education. Income Support is payable if you work less than 16 hours a week, earn a low income and are also not in full time education. You are allowed to apply for any benefit, as long as you answer whatever questions they ask its up to them to make a decision. Furthermore, there is no shame in signing on, its there to tide you over during periods where you arent working.

woodford2barbican

I got a very valuable piece of advice from a friend's mum when I was lerning to drive, and I think it applies here......

Don't worry about it, there are enough other idiots out there with jobs that I am sure you wil find one yourself.

I second the idea of getting a job outside - how about the local council and their parks dept? Cutting grass in the summer could almost be classed as therapy, not work.

Anonymous

I think I'll have to put some chillin music on later and do some searching on the internets. There must be some places that employ people who have had no previous experience, granted I am 19, but I'm going to have to get a job eventually, and given the chance, and as long as I know what I am doing, and if I am paid, I know full well I'll be a hard worker no doubt about that.

redddraggon

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I bet they'd employ you - beggars can't be choosers after all....

Anonymous

I'm not going to apply at Mcdonalds.

redddraggon

willhub wrote:

I'm not going to apply at Mcdonalds.

You obviously don't want a job then

Stewie Griffin

redddraggon wrote:

willhub wrote:

I'm not going to apply at Mcdonalds.

You obviously don't want a job then

+1

I was laid off in 1991 (I was 21) and the first job I was offered was cleaning cars every day on a forecourt after I had swept it. I did that for 3 or 4 months until I found something better (indoors) .

You kids today have no effing idea, you just sit on your elbows all day waiting for something to fall into your lap*

*Copyright my Dad, circa 1991 probably just before I grudgingly took a job cleaning 2nd hand cars.

pottssteve

How about doing a sh*te but paid job for 5 days a week and then volunteer to work somewhere better for free for 1 day?

Youngsters these days, they've got no initiative...

ExeterSimon

If people swallowed their pride and actually did any job just to get the working experience, make ends meet or just for the cash I doubt we'd have any umemployment in this country.

Granted we are in a recession and I'm not saying I want to see qualified professionals pulling veg from a field but come on...a job's a job.

It's the '19 and never had a job' bit that I'm stunned at. How do you buy bike stuff, petrol, food etc?

Not having a pop mate but if you want a job there's plenty out there if you'll do anything.