Toll Plaza Jobs

Berty

Hi All,

Remember I mentioned previously about Toll Plaza Jobs.

Here they are:

http://www.irishjobs.ie/Recruiters/The-Intolligent-4935.aspx

Toll Operator(s)
&
Toll Shift Supervisor

Kess73

cheers Berty, had my cv gone in minutes after seeing your post.

Berty

Kess73 wrote: »

cheers Berty, had my cv gone in minutes after seeing your post.

Give me free tolls.

Raiser

Kess73 wrote: »

cheers Berty, had my cv gone in minutes after seeing your post.

I can only imagine the tailbacks as you clack away busily typing up your posts on here Kess

phill106

I wonder is that a typo, they have the jobs down as temporary full time.

Itsdacraic

phill106 wrote: »

I wonder is that a typo, they have the jobs down as temporary full time.

It says in the job description to state on your CV whether you are interested in full time or part time role.

Kess73

Berty wrote: »

Give me free tolls.

Raiser wrote: »

I can only imagine the tailbacks as you clack away busily typing up your posts on here Kess

Small matter of getting the job first lads.



But if I do.....


Raiser you better get used to letters coming to your house looking for you to pay for the hundreds of times your car reg will come up on the unpaid fees list

Raiser

Kess73 wrote: »

Raiser you better get used to letters coming to your house looking for you to pay for the hundreds of times your car reg will come up on the unpaid fees list

Willie O'Dea sorts them for me Kess - Just have to meet him in the Spotted Dog and bring him 50 Duck Eggs and a left-pawed Squirrel.

- Now if only I could remember that secret handshake.

Kess73

Raiser wrote: »

Willie O'Dea sorts them for me Kess - Just have to meet him in the Spotted Dog and bring him 50 Duck Eggs and a left-pawed Squirrel.

- Now if only I could remember that secret handshake.

You better ask him for a council house too, because I just might have to run you out of my side of town as well.:)

donutheadhomer

Berty wrote: »

Hi All,

Remember I mentioned previously about Toll Plaza Jobs.

Here they are:

http://www.irishjobs.ie/Recruiters/The-Intolligent-4935.aspx

Toll Operator(s)
&
Toll Shift Supervisor

I applied for the supervisor job and have interview Wednesday.
Thanks Berty for the headsup.

Berty

EurasianBadger wrote: »

Thanks Berty for the headsup.

Congratulations and the best of luck with the interview.

highlydebased

Got my rejection email today- they'll only take people with 2 years experience (doing what I dont know, taking tolls?!)

Berty

Neon-Circles wrote: »

Got my rejection email today- they'll only take people with 2 years experience (doing what I dont know, taking tolls?!)

2 years cash handling experience possibly is what they might need so they can be sure, through references, your tills always balanced.

Sorry to hear that. At least you got a letter, most companies dont bother.

Berty

EurasianBadger wrote: »

I applied for the supervisor job and have interview Wednesday.
Thanks Berty for the headsup.

How did you get on? Too early to know?

donutheadhomer

Berty wrote: »

How did you get on? Too early to know?

seemed to go ok, behavioral interviews are always harder than the "tell me your lifestory" type interview. should know by end next week,

did you go too berty?

Berty

EurasianBadger wrote: »

did you go too berty?

No, Im starting a new job on the 1st of June.

If I was going for the interview I wouldn't have told you lot about it. :P

Raiser

Berty wrote: »

No, Im starting a new job on the 1st of June.

If I was going for the interview I wouldn't have told you lot about it. :P

Worried that pack of 'Characters' would make you look too good ???

donutheadhomer

Raiser wrote: »

Worried that pack of 'Characters' would make you look too good ???

i was looking around for lads from boarsd but sill me didn't know what ye all look like

Raiser

EurasianBadger wrote: »

i was looking around for lads from boarsd but sill me didn't know what ye all look like

Hope there wasn't marks going for being perceptive BadgerMan

- Especially seeing as we had a boisterous and really lively impromptu party 5 mins after arrival.......

Berty

EurasianBadger wrote: »

i was looking around for lads from boarsd but sill me didn't know what ye all look like

We'll know what you look like if you get a job working on the Toll Booths except for some of the boardsies who plan on boycotting the Tunnel.

donutheadhomer

Berty wrote: »

We'll know what you look like if you get a job working on the Toll Booths except for some of the boardsies who plan on boycotting the Tunnel.

no boycott please, it will come straight out of my little wage -

JimmyChew

Got an offer of one of those job's today. Delighted:). Heard about it here first so theres a pint waiting for the OP.

Berty

JimmyChew wrote: »

Got an offer of one of those job's today. Delighted:). Heard about it here first so theres a pint waiting for the OP.

Congratulations about the job. Im glad I could help.

Are you out of work long?

Kess73

JimmyChew wrote: »

Got an offer of one of those job's today. Delighted:). Heard about it here first so theres a pint waiting for the OP.

Congrats on that. Always good to hear of new jobs in Limerick.

JimmyChew

Berty wrote: »

Congratulations about the job. Im glad I could help.

Are you out of work long?

I Was let go by the big multinational in Raheen about 13 months ago. One thing i can say about them is that the qualifications and training courses i did while i was there stood to me.

Berty

Wow, 13 months.

First positive thing on the Limerick forum today I'd say. The weight off your shoulders must be immense when you have something to work towards.

JimmyChew

Berty wrote: »

Wow, 13 months.

First positive thing on the Limerick forum today I'd say. The weight off your shoulders must be immense when you have something to work towards.

Yeah it's a good feeling alright. Tnk's again Berty....

donutheadhomer

I got the PFO letter yesterday. booooooooooooooooo

Berty

EurasianBadger wrote: »

I got the PFO letter yesterday. booooooooooooooooo

I am truly sorry to hear that.

donutheadhomer

Berty wrote: »

I am truly sorry to hear that.

Well good luck to anyone who got these jobs.

Raiser

EurasianBadger wrote: »

I got the PFO letter yesterday. booooooooooooooooo

Sorry to hear it - Better luck next time.....

donutheadhomer

Raiser wrote: »

Sorry to hear it - Better luck next time.....

thanks guys - if ye hear of anything let me know please. Only so much digging in the garden I can do.

Kess73

EurasianBadger wrote: »

I got the PFO letter yesterday. booooooooooooooooo

Hard luck with that, got one myself. Just take it as I did, might not have gotten a job offer, but they gave me a chance to sharpen up the interview skills.

With any luck the next interviews we do will be fruitful for both of us.

Berty

EurasianBadger wrote: »

thanks guys - if ye hear of anything let me know please. Only so much digging in the garden I can do.

What have you done, what are you looking for. I always have my ear to the ground.

PM if you don't want any details public. I have a few contacts in agencies who wont fvck you around like some agencies.

donutheadhomer

Kess73 wrote: »

Hard luck with that, got one myself. Just take it as I did, might not have gotten a job offer, but they gave me a chance to sharpen up the interview skills.

With any luck the next interviews we do will be fruitful for both of us.

half of boards must have been there. good to do interviews though anyway. I've never done an interview like thay one before - need more practise at it i think.

donutheadhomer

Berty wrote: »

What have you done, what are you looking for. I always have my ear to the ground.

PM if you don't want any details public. I have a few contacts in agencies who wont fvck you around like some agencies.

jee wizz that sounds good, PM sent and thanks

Berty

OK here is something helpful for people with a good CV and want to find jobs.

Get a profile on LinkedIn

http://www.ukpokerbuddies.com/files/images/m_pf_18.jpg

Its an online Networking site. Set up your profile with all your education, previous employment etc etc. The site will help you set it up.

Get onto Irishjobs.ie, recruitireland.com etc etc and find out the names of recuiters in all the agencies and then send them a LINK REQUEST as though you want to network with them.

They quite often put their jobs on their profiles rather like the way you put your status on facebook(its free so most of them do it). So you will spot jobs here as well.

Kess73

Berty wrote: »

OK here is something helpful for people with a good CV and want to find jobs.

Get a profile on LinkedIn

http://www.ukpokerbuddies.com/files/images/m_pf_18.jpg

Its an online Networking site. Set up your profile with all your education, previous employment etc etc. The site will help you set it up.

Get onto Irishjobs.ie, recruitireland.com etc etc and find out the names of recuiters in all the agencies and then send them a LINK REQUEST as though you want to network with them.

They quite often put their jobs on their profiles rather like the way you put your status on facebook(its free so most of them do it). So you will spot jobs here as well.

Surely by making your details public, you are then leaving yourself open to companies who harvest the information and use it for advertising texts and the like.

There were a few Irish recruitment agencies found to have being doing this, so if one was to freely give their details, then there would be nothing to stop their information being used.

Berty

Kess73 wrote: »

Surely by making your details public, you are then leaving yourself open to companies who harvest the information and use it for advertising texts and the like.

There were a few Irish recruitment agencies found to have being doing this, so if one was to freely give their details, then there would be nothing to stop their information being used.

You don't have to put up your address or phone number and you can have access only coming through your LinkenIn account rather like boards.ie I can manage to get an e-mail into your inbox without knowing your e-mail address through PM.

donutheadhomer

Berty wrote: »

You don't have to put up your address or phone number and you can have access only coming through your LinkenIn account rather like boards.ie I can manage to get an e-mail into your inbox without knowing your e-mail address through PM.

at this stage who cares if they employ me

cullen5998

Got my rejection letter today, very disappointed. I thought the interview went very well and that i had the skills and experience that they were looking for.

Berty

cullen5998 wrote: »

Got my rejection letter today, very disappointed. I thought the interview went very well and that i had the skills and experience that they were looking for.

That's a terrible shame as well. Im watching threads in the Work & Jobs forum and mostly the forum does not make for good reading.

donutheadhomer

cullen5998 wrote: »

Got my rejection letter today, very disappointed. I thought the interview went very well and that i had the skills and experience that they were looking for.

they told me they were interviewing 40 plus for the supervisor job alone. so no shame not getting it

Raiser

EurasianBadger wrote: »

they told me they were interviewing 40 plus for the supervisor job alone. so no shame not getting it

WTF?

Fantastic way to waste 39 Peoples precious time and disappoint as many Folks as possible......

- Were they demanding Chuck Norris Supervisory skills where absentee Employees were tracked to The Swiss Alps and wrestled into a Cargo Plane back to their Desks on Clonmacken Plaza?

HR People are such fcuking Gobshítes 99.8% of the time, exploiting the ready availaability of People desperate for work - Were probably charging separately to "assess" each Candidate too to line their own greasy pockets.

Kess73

Raiser wrote: »

WTF?

Fantastic way to waste 39 Peoples precious time and disappoint as many Folks as possible......

- Were they demanding Chuck Norris Supervisory skills where absentee Employees were tracked to The Swiss Alps and wrestled into a Cargo Plane back to their Desks on Clonmacken Plaza?

HR People are such fcuking Gobshítes 99.8% of the time, exploiting the ready availaability of People desperate for work - Were probably charging separately to "assess" each Candidate too to line their own greasy pockets.

I think it highlights how much demand there is for every available job now, rather than highlight any waste of people's time tbh.

I would have been one of the 39, and I do not see it as a waste of my time. A waste of my time would have been for me not to have gone for the interview. The way I see it, I can do a hundred interviews and get knocked back ninty nine times, but the one time I don't get a knock back will make all worth while.

Having said that, they were quite hung up in my interview on how much I used to earn in comparison to the wage they were offering for the supervisor role. My reply was that my old wage was of no real relevence to me anymore seeing that my current level of income is partial dole.

Berty

They probaby hired more than one supervisor. It is a 24 hour a day 365 day a year business. At least 3 Supervisors I'd say.

MidlandsM

It's a real numbers game to get one of these jobs, even with lots of cash handling experience.

The Portloaise Toll Bridge advertised 40 positions, 1500 people applied.

Raiser

Your attitude is admirable Kess - But I hate to think Employers would fcuk with People just cause everyone is hanging for a job and they simply can.....

- I remember years ago when IT was a growing 'unassailable bubble' that had not yet burst, HR Personnel were criticised for raiding the Universities and begging Kids to abandon their Degrees and come work for them, danger was that they 'd have no qualification or fall back - sure enough they didn't.

As soon as things fell apart and they had an unlimited amount of People to choose from they went to the opposite extreme and started to mess with People - holding 7 stage interviews with telephone assessments, 'role playing' scenarios where Candidates had to act out scenarios - Jump through this shiny hoop etc. etc. etc.

All from HR People who in a great many cases are intellectual dead ends...... :P

P.S. Thanks for the clarification re., numbers Berty.

munstergirl

To those who got a pfo myself included, don't take it personally.

Sometimes i think its worse to get a no after a good interview, your hopes are really up, thinking positive and a no can devestating!

But just think positive and don't take it personally. don't give up job hunting, things will get better someday, i just hope its not 2020.

I know so many people from my last place of work (nothing to do with dell) and most of us are still unemployed 1 year on, lots of skills, qualifications and experience.

Congratulations to those that did get the job.

Berty

Getting a PFO is better than nothing because Conlons BMW hired a Mini Sales Executive and their facebook had his picture on their page today.

I applied for that job in mid march, no interview, no phone call no PFO just an update on their facebook page.

They can PFO. :mad:

donutheadhomer

Berty wrote: »

They probaby hired more than one supervisor. It is a 24 hour a day 365 day a year business. At least 3 Supervisors I'd say.

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