Trying to find a job after travelling

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Back from travelling about 5 weeks now,was gone for like a year with my gf.Needless to say,im broke after doing this so moved back in with parents,first time in 5 years.
Ive got no space and i desperately want to move out.I left a very good to go travelling.(i had recently got promoted,more repsonsibilty with more pay and i loved it)
So,ive had a few interviews since ive returned but all ave fallen thru.
My old job said they wud take me back but i wud have to start once again entry level,therefore all the people who i was their boss wud now be mine,u get the idea.
I dunno what to do,i appreciate its a hard time to go find a job and stuff.but i work in I.T so i thought it wud be relatively easy.
what do ye think?shud i swallow my pride and go back to my old job and work hard all again.or shud i keep jobhunting???

ps:latest job interview said i did a great interview and they may have a 2nd position in january,if they do they will offer me the position

Ginger

I did this in 2005 when I came back from a year abroad.. What branch of IT are you working in?

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i did tech support for about a year and a half before i left.had a few helpdesk/handy IT jobs in oz.im trying to get into IT support,just finding it tough going at the mo.

Ginger

Get certified .. see my sig. But to be honest, tech support jobs are not my area .. I am a dev. I found work within 2 weeks after coming home. But I did have a few false starts like yourself.

Best of luck

AARRRGH

How good are your technical skills? Do you consider yourself a good employee (seriously)?

dazberry

A couple of years ago I interviewed a number of people (for dev jobs) and two lads stick out in my mind - the primary reason is that they both came from the same company - and secondly they had both been travelling, one was back quite a while, the other only a couple of months.

Their previous job did them no favours - they really didn't get good experience - or manage to take good experience from it anyway. I suspect they were working with a mature product and only developing embellishments around the side (reports and the like).

But what struck me was that they seemed to keep playing the "I've been travelling" card to excuse that fact that they didn't know their stuff. Neither of them had an excuse not to do any preparation from the interviews - from looking at our website to doing any preparation for the technical test for which they were forewarned.

Someone having travelled is great for breaking the ice in the interview - getting things going, but it doesn't excuse not even being able to attempt any of the questions on the technical test.

OP: to play devils advocate what I would do is go back to my previous job while looking for a new one.

D.

MonkeyWrench

It took me a couple of months after coming back from travelling there about 4years ago to get a job in IT too. I think it was a mixture of being a bit peed off that I had to go back into the workforce again in Ireland and the fact I had forgotten what it was like to have a proper interview. I used the travel excuse in a couple of interviews but by my third I had researched a bit more and gotten back up to speed. It was these combining factors of actually wanting to work at this stage and having the knowledge again in the interview process that got me the job....

k-a-t-e

Hi just saw this post and as I've been trying to find a job in ireland (galway) for the past month I was wondering if its a bad time right now to be looking and not just in IT? If so does anyone know why?

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Dublindude,yes,i would think im a good employee.and i have not used my travelling as any excuse during an interview,its just i dunno,im just trying to find somewhere where i can develop and grow,thats the hard part

skelliser

k-a-t-e wrote: »

Hi just saw this post and as I've been trying to find a job in ireland (galway) for the past month I was wondering if its a bad time right now to be looking and not just in IT? If so does anyone know why?

same situation cant seem to find anything in galway maybe we should combine our knowledge and invent our own jobs!!!:D

k-a-t-e

skelliser wrote: »

same situation cant seem to find anything in galway maybe we should combine our knowledge and invent our own jobs!!!:D

Hi yeah definitely up for that. We should start our own business - any ideas?

What kinda work are you looking for?