Good job sities and agencies

metalmonkey
metalmonkey Posts: 144
edited February 2010 in Commuting chat
Like most people at the moment I may being looking for a job later this year, hopefully not but it happens.

I thought it was a good idea to start thinking about it, so suggestions of places to look seems like a good way to start. Plus I need to do my CV at some point as well mine is some what out of date now. Thanks.

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  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    More aimed at graduates but ww.prospects.ac.uk is very good.

    From my expereince you'll be hard pressed to get onto the books of any job agency - they're all very over-subscribed.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    Sort of off topic, I discovered that I've lost my degree certificate! :shock:

    I feel pain coming on.
    David
    Engineered Bicycles
  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    metalmonkey wrote:
    Like most people at the moment I may being looking for a job later this year, hopefully not but it happens.

    I thought it was a good idea to start thinking about it, so suggestions of places to look seems like a good way to start. Plus I need to do my CV at some point as well mine is some what out of date now. Thanks.

    What do you do?

    For me, a good way of finding agencies was to look at which ones were posting ads on the Guardian jobs site - http://www.jobs.guardian.co.uk.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,206
    Yep, let us know your line of work as employment agencies/recruitment 'consultants' usually tend to specialise in certain areas.

    Not sure about the comment about getting onto the books of an agency being difficult - it's getting offers once you're there that can be difficult. Again, depends on what you do - I still get calls from recruitment agencies either asking if I want to move or if I am recruiting (neither of which is the case at present).
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • vorsprung
    vorsprung Posts: 1,953
    I am in the IT sector. If you are too, then...

    Without exception the dozens of agencies I have tried to use to get a job in the past 20 years have always been an utter waste of time. When I was hiring people and using agencies they were also expensive and not helpful from the other side of the fence.

    I would recommend ignoring all agency adverts, only go direct. cwjobs.co,uk has options for filtering out agency jobs. The job centre plus website has many direct jobs. Some firms use monster.com to advertise directly. Visit the websites of companies who are interesting to you, many of them have a "jobs" section.

    Personal contacts are good too for getting work. Ask your friends if they've heard of anything suitable.
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  • metalmonkey
    metalmonkey Posts: 144
    Well my HND is Broadcasting, my BA is Media Production Managnment.

    I wroked for a several years in TV Production and camera/kit hire companies then worked in AV as well. Also worked in outdoor education and outward bound teaching leading.

    Though the work in TV has got ever harder to get and a descent rate espically freealance, hard to get enough to live off. So I got a more stable working for the MPA which in hindsite lack of work there has been or still is? was a good idea. But you know all good things and all.

    So was looking at youth work, youth offeding as a career but is there much work out there for that? As trained tech I can turn my hand to most things techical, but also techical sales, marketing, evets. So something that is a challenge and allows me to be creative or apply those ideas.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,206
    edited February 2010
    Sorry mate, I'm a financial bod so can't really help you on the specifics. However it does sound as if you are at a bit of a crossroads and need to decide what you really want to do. Hope this doesn't sound like preaching, but if you can choose a line of work and focus on that it will probably pay dividends in the long run (worked for me anyway).

    Steve.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    You almost sound ready to retrain as something new........
  • SmellTheGlove
    SmellTheGlove Posts: 697
    Your first asset is that you aren't short of ideas. Have you looked at LinkedIn?

    http://www.linkedin.com/groupsDirectory?results=&sik=1265665101211

    It doesn't necessarily live up to the hype, but there's the potential to seek out people or organizations in a sort of "pre-filtered" way using groups etc. I'm not an evangelist or on any sort of commission, but the received wisdom is that 80-90% of jobs are not directly advertised as such so it might be a useful oblique route to take. I use it to research and read up on organizations and individuals that I work for. If you post a profile or cv, recruiters also use those to track down talent.

    Edit - a lot is targeted at USA but you can filter geographically and so forth.

    Good luck and be sure to choose a job that's commutable and has parking/C2W etc... :wink:
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