Jobs (asking/offering)

hopeful_girl

i there anything out there in the city?
waitressing, cleaning hotel rooms?

gary82

Nothing, unless you have a couple of years experience.

Employers are getting extremely picky. Even tried for a job in Subway and they wanted "2-3 years Subway experience!!" - clearly more to making rolls than I thought! :rolleyes:

hopeful_girl

to make a sandwich :eek:

this worlds going crazy.

id love to live and work in town for the summer

ScumLord

gary82 wrote: »

Nothing, unless you have a couple of years experience.

Employers are getting extremely picky. Even tried for a job in Subway and they wanted "2-3 years Subway experience!!" - clearly more to making rolls than I thought! :rolleyes:

Only only need 6 months experience in being a sandwich to do the advertising though.

MattKid

My contract finishes at the end of the month, and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'm sending my CV out to a couple of companies in the same industry, but can see me being homeless quite soon.

Krieg

Looking for work in Galway atm is quite depressing, just keep at it I guess

muppetkiller

There are signs up in CURRYS for full time and part time work ?

hopeful_girl

nice

witnessmenow

Hey all,

Giving back our rented house tomorrow and just after thinking the grass is probably pretty long.

Does anyone know someone to get in touch with about cutting the grass? Its a small area, couple of metre in the front and about 5m X 5m in the back. Even better if someone knows any young lads that are looking for a way to make some handy money. Its just off the Siobhan Mckenna road, looking onto the pitches beside dunnes.

Thanks in advance guys

I thought tenants were responsible for the inside of the house only - not the outside.

Still it would be nice to do it - I have no idea who could help.

CyberDave

If anybody knows of any Graphic Design jobs going in the Galway area, please let me know. Thanks.

trailerparkboy

Times are tough alright but sure just chill out on the dole for the summer, who wants to be working in this heat anyway, relax get a few cans a nice suntan and just chill out on the beach:D

Asmodean

Nice statement my friend but I doubt the dole is going to cover any poor sods who are out of work and paying off on a mortgage etc

Sniipe

trailerparkboy wrote: »

Times are tough alright but sure just chill out on the dole for the summer, who wants to be working in this heat anyway, relax get a few cans a nice suntan and just chill out on the beach:D

Personally I think that is a terrible attitude to have.
1 you are leeching off the system
2 are cans allowed on the beach?
3 Suntanning can cause skin cancer!!

I know its hard to find a job. Be innovative, cut lawns, busk, deliver papers, tourist type things, odd jobs... (I'm talking about students here)

trailerparkboy

Sniipe wrote: »

Personally I think that is a terrible attitude to have.
1 you are leeching off the system
2 are cans allowed on the beach?
3 Suntanning can cause skin cancer!!

I know its hard to find a job. Be innovative, cut lawns, busk, deliver papers, tourist type things, odd jobs... (I'm talking about students here)

Cut lawns are you mad? id prefer to be chillin with a few cans than working in the sunshine.

onemorechance

trailerparkboy wrote: »

Cut lawns are you mad? id prefer to be chillin with a few cans than working in the sunshine.

Hey man, if you can do it, do it! Being on the dole is tough but chillin at beach with some cans sure helps! That sounds great now as I sit in a hot office!

Krieg

trailerparkboy wrote: »

Cut lawns are you mad? id prefer to be chillin with a few cans than working in the sunshine.

OR, you could collect dole AND cut lawns. Its a double win

lisajane

I just thought il let people know about this, if you're looking for work.

Its the chemist beside dunnes. I passed it today and there is a notice on the window. I think its in the coffee shop upstairs.

Krieg

Anyone know where the FAS building on nuns island is?

I went there yesterday and had a walk around but couldn't find it.

Malice

Krieg wrote: »

Anyone know where the FAS building on nuns island is?

I went there yesterday and had a walk around but couldn't find it.

I think this is where it is. It's hard to visualise things from a different perspective sometimes Basically walk around from the Cathedral car park heading towards the Bish school and as you cross the road it should be facing you over a little bit on your right hand side.

Tony Almeida

Job coming up in the Skeff for a receptionist. Say you are willing to work any hours given.

Krieg

There is a public seminar on Thursday 10:30 (am) in the eyre square shopping center by the old wall. Advice on job seeking as well as talks from professors.

Those are the only details I have and not 100% sure if thats the location. Anyone else hear anything?


Also, boston scientific are hiring "soon"

sgthighway

Krieg wrote: »

Also, boston scientific are hiring "soon"

There will be a big positive announcement tomorrow morning. It should be on the 11am local news
All the Head Dudes from Boston Scientific Globally are in Galway. The Taniste is going to be there and all the media including RTE are invited.

There is feck all space up there so hopefully they are expanding to another nearby site - my speculation only

ICE is the place to have your CV I think.

kraggy

Ot, but how do you put your own marks on a capture like that above? Do you have to use photoshop or something?

kraggy

kraggy wrote: »

Ot, but how do you put your own marks on a capture like that above? Do you have to use photoshop or something?

You can do it in paint. Just open the image in paint and you can use any of the various tools to circle whatever you wish.

Wompa1

I text a friend of mine whenever I saw a job vacancy in town...there has actually been a good few. 2 Jobs going in Hogans Petrol Station, Job going in the milkshake place(or there was), there were jobs in the Spar that re-opened. Job going in Currys. A couple of hotels were looking for receptionists and night porters. Lydon House Catering looking for the races. If you have a car Extra Vision in Tuam were looking. If you actually want a job and are worth a ****e there are some out there

sgthighway

sgthighway wrote: »

There will be a big positive announcement tomorrow morning. It should be on the 11am local news
All the Head Dudes from Boston Scientific Globally are in Galway. The Taniste is going to be there and all the media including RTE are invited.

There is feck all space up there so hopefully they are expanding to another nearby site - my speculation only

ICE is the place to have your CV I think.

A €91m investment in Galway along with 45 jobs was announced this morning. Most of the jobs will be in R&D but I do believe they will be hiring Product Builders in the next few months. They might offer any positions to people they let go in the last 6 months.

MattKid

My Cv will be going to ICE today methinks

snubbleste

TKMaxx is opening in the new development on Prospect Hill later in the year

Thowl

I'm going to bump this thread to keep it fresh while I'm looking for a job

gary82

If any of you have good marketing/sales experience, I could have a small job for you. It'd be selling advertising space on a website, purely commission based but would be a quick job and a nice earner for the right person!

Experience essential though. I have a list of contacts and don't want them used up by shoddy effort. Familiarity with SCUBA diving in Ireland also an advantage (scuba website).

Tried posting this on Adverts but they tried to charge even though it says on their Wiki that it's a completely free site. :mad:

Panthro

took a walk round town there with a cv in my hand and a glint in my eye..
argos..sorry not taking in cv's
tesco..sorry not taking in cv's
pennys..sorry not taking in cv's
smaller fashion shops..sorry not taking in cv's

you know tis bad when they wont even pretend and say
"oh ya sound ill pass it on to the manager"

couple of hours later, return home with the same cv in my hand and that glint i once had well and truely gone outta me!

emeraldstar

papagormo wrote: »

took a walk round town there with a cv in my hand and a glint in my eye..
argos..sorry not taking in cv's
tesco..sorry not taking in cv's
pennys..sorry not taking in cv's
smaller fashion shops..sorry not taking in cv's

you know tis bad when they wont even pretend and say
"oh ya sound ill pass it on to the manager"

couple of hours later, return home with the same cv in my hand and that glint i once had well and truely gone outta me!

Ah well you'd need to be trying a wee bit harder than that anyway

Panthro

i did..just after handin in a cv into a known but not well loved discobar/scumbag pub/club not really sure what its supposed to be thing on foster street..times are rough

gary82

Be wary that some places are cutting wage bills this summer but having a rolling system of staff on trial. I'm living with some foreign guys and they've done a few of these trial sessions, week or so of easy (don't require much/any training) work, no problems after the week, then not hired, just another trial worker taken on. Not cool.

JohnCleary

if yer a chick and yer hot and can stomach a big load i've a job for ya (Fully legit, PM for details) :pac:

Mrs OBumble

papagormo wrote: »

took a walk round town there with a cv in my hand and a glint in my eye..
argos..sorry not taking in cv's
tesco..sorry not taking in cv's
pennys..sorry not taking in cv's
smaller fashion shops..sorry not taking in cv's

you know tis bad when they wont even pretend and say
"oh ya sound ill pass it on to the manager"

couple of hours later, return home with the same cv in my hand and that glint i once had well and truely gone outta me!

Did you see the clothes store in Abbeygate St that has a sign up saying Staff Wanted? (up the road a bit from Gourmet Tart).

At the moment, I don't think that it's worth asking in places unless they have signs up.

Mrs OBumble

gary82 wrote: »

Be wary that some places are cutting wage bills this summer but having a rolling system of staff on trial. I'm living with some foreign guys and they've done a few of these trial sessions, week or so of easy (don't require much/any training) work, no problems after the week, then not hired, just another trial worker taken on. Not cool.

A day is a trial.

A week is taking the p*ss, especially since they can let "new" employees go for no reason at all anytime during the first year.

Panthro

JustMary wrote: »

Did you see the clothes store in Abbeygate St that has a sign up saying Staff Wanted? (up the road a bit from Gourmet Tart).

At the moment, I don't think that it's worth asking in places unless they have signs up.

hi, thanks for that i didnt see it.is it a mens or womens clothes shop? ill drop in a cv tomorrow

gary82

JustMary wrote: »

A day is a trial.

A week is taking the p*ss, especially since they can let "new" employees go for no reason at all anytime during the first year.

Yeah but "employees" get paid, not so if you're just on trial!

Mrs OBumble

papagormo wrote: »

hi, thanks for that i didnt see it.is it a mens or womens clothes shop? ill drop in a cv tomorrow

Womens. But sorry, the sign was still there mid-afternoon on Saturday, but is gone now. I guess they got someone.

If you're looking for shop work, and have experience, I would seriously recommend walking around town every day. Signs come and go very quickly, so get all your friends and family on the lookout for you too.

Mrs OBumble

gary82 wrote: »

Yeah but "employees" get paid, not so if you're just on trial!

Kinda my point:
The only reason companies are doing this is because idiots are willing to work for free. The best way to stop it is to dry up the supply of idiots: if someone offers you a week's "trial" before you get a job, offer to do a day, but say firmly that you think a week is exploitation and are not interested.

pepeee70

hi all,

i am looking for a copy writer to write texts and articles for my online art shop that i am creating at the moment. as my mother language is not english- i dont fell strong enough to make it myself.

requirements:

you need a great imagination, writing sklills and adequate level of education, preferably experience in that matter ( writong articles etc).

my website will sell art- so i expect you to hace a "feeling" of that.

please contact me on xxx@hotmail.com

gary82

The Spud House on Newcastle Road have a "Staff Wanted" poster up at the moment.

gary82

JustMary wrote: »

Kinda my point:
The only reason companies are doing this is because idiots are willing to work for free. The best way to stop it is to dry up the supply of idiots: if someone offers you a week's "trial" before you get a job, offer to do a day, but say firmly that you think a week is exploitation and are not interested.

There's too many other people in the jobs market for this to work. Also there are genuine jobs which require a weeks trial, hard to know which is which.

inisboffin

gary82 wrote: »

There's too many other people in the jobs market for this to work. Also there are genuine jobs which require a weeks trial, hard to know which is which.

It is simply illegal to get someone to work a week unpaid, at least in any job that pays taxes.
A certain hotel in Galway that is close to the water was, until recently (I assume it has stopped), 'hiring' people for a weeks unpaid trial, then pretty consistently 'letting them go'.

One woman, a friend of a friend and an EU national, legal to work here had this happen, she didn't know she was on an 'unpaid trial' and went to get her wages - to be told they didn't need her anymore, and her work was unpaid.

She got legal help via Citizens Info and surprise surprise, the paid her the second they were approached.

Spread the word, this is illegal and exploits people. Surprised Duffy didn't get a hold of this.

gaeilgegrinds

Couch Potatoes.

Mrs OBumble

gary82 wrote: »

Also there are genuine jobs which require a weeks trial, hard to know which is which.

Oh yeah? Name some.

The lack of unfair dismissals act protection during the first year means that everyone is effectively on trial for the first 12 months. But it's a paid trial. Employers who are saying that they require a week's unpaid trial should be treated with the same respect they are showing to potential staff, and invited to experience some sex+travel.

sdanseo

trailerparkboy wrote: »

Cut lawns are you mad? id prefer to be chillin with a few cans than working in the sunshine.

Old post I know, and if memory serves this dude was banned - but it's attitudes like that which will keep us in recession. Innovate, dont lounge back and get drunk every day.

Angelandie

The hospital is nearly always looking for staff for the shop or catering. Wages are generally slightly over minimum pay. May be split shifts though which most people refuse to work.

Krieg

Schuhe on shop street (however its spelt) are looking for sales advisor's currently, advertising a wage of 9.65p/h. See the notice outside the shop for more details