Need advice, finished college, no job!

sashafierce

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BlackWizard

What is it you want to do?

If it's computing, then you will find it almost impossible to find work unless you consider the FAS WPP or manage to get onto a graduate programme from a big company.

Welease

What types of job are you applying for?

If you don't mind me being blunt, it seems like you are making life difficult for yourself in an already difficult market.
You don't want a job in the area where your expertise is (accounting), you don't want to move to find that work, and you may be applying for jobs below the levels of your qualifications (which means an employer knows you will most likely leave as soon as you can)...

You are not being unreasonable, but I think you need to be realistic..
It is very difficult to get a job at the moment.. so it's going to take time
You best chance to get a job is in an area where you have some skills, you are up against a lot of other people who will have skills/experience in the jobs you fancy.

If you don't want to go down that route, then you need to decide what you want to do, and get something on your CV (training, skills, experience) that is attractive to a potential employer.

Best of luck.

AARRRGH

Join scriptlance.com and do some small programming/web development/testing jobs for people. Bid low so they definitely accept your bid. Put them on your CV as professional experience.

sashafierce

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BlackWizard

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So you are looking for any type of office job just to get you through the next 2 years. But you for some reason also want to work in a bank? Why?

I don't think anyone is surprised that some places wont reply to your emails or calls. It's quite normal not to hear anything back. Keep trying though!

Can loose the part-time job and apply for any social payments?

Mrs OBumble

DON'T lose the part-time job! That would be the worst thing you can do. Going from "a job" to "no job" would make your CV look worse.

Why don't you want an accounting job? You've just spend however much time (and however-much of the government's money) learning skills in that area - why no use them, and move from there into something else later when the economy has picked up.

If you apply for junior accounting jobs, at least the employers won't think that you'll leave as soon as something better turns up. Which they will if you're applying for reception etc.

Faith+1

Without sounding like an Ass but Emigrate. You have a 3rd level qualification that alot of people haven't got. There is no work here repeat no work!
It's either that of spend 2-3 years on the dole I'm afraid

bruce wayne

how about trying to get a job as an applications consultant for an accounting software company. Having studied both accounting and computers, it would be a good choice.

sashafierce

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Faith+1

Best of luck Sashafierce, It's a sad state of affairs here but what can you do!:(

sashafierce

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tmax

You could do a TEFL course (optional for some countries) and then teach English abroad. See www.eslcafe.com for job listings

A year apart from your bf is nothing when you can have the rest of your lives together afterwards. Which is worse for you: being single for a year or unemployed for a year?

Faith+1

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No No thank god. Work in the City Council. With all these taxes and levy's I sometimes wonder if i'd be better off on the dole!
I'm just sick off seeing my friends graduate college and can't get a job even working in spar. Have two emigration parties next week!:mad:

Welease

Don't look at the possibility of emmigration as a bad thing

I spent over 20 years abroad, and loved every minute of it.. It's a big wide world with lots of opportunities.. why not go and experience it while you are young You'll have plenty of years left to sit around in dear old Ireland waiting for the rain to clear

albacete

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No No thank god. Work in the City Council. With all these taxes and levy's I sometimes wonder if i'd be better off on the dole!
I'm just sick off seeing my friends graduate college and can't get a job even working in spar. Have two emigration parties next week!:mad:

sorry Faith+1, but Im going to have to pull you up on that one; am very familiar with the council myself, actually once calculated when you include the extra holidays, coffee break time special days off etc, those 33 hours whittles down to only about 25 hours a week. I just think its a bit insulting to the rest of us with your complaining about such a dream job, and you must be getting at least 400-500 a week anyway, even if you just have an entry CO position-thats over twice the dole! Your great friends in the union consider you low paid if youre under 30k.

Levy??? Jeeez I wish I had a pension to levy!!!!

So if you still think the dole is an equivalent option, there's about 300,000 that would gladly swap with you.

Tchaikovsky

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You could do a TEFL course (optional for some countries) and then teach English abroad. See www.eslcafe.com for job listings

A year apart from your bf is nothing when you can have the rest of your lives together afterwards. Which is worse for you: being single for a year or unemployed for a year?

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I did one a few months ago and there are lots of summer schools in Britain looking for teachers. There are a few in Ireland too, but few vacancies from what I can see.

LimeFruitGum

It is all very well for him to ask you to stay while he is in the lovely safe cocoon that is college. Don't stay at home just for him, at the expense of your career.

It's only a year apart, if you move to the UK or continental Europe, you could see each other at least once a month. You have phones, email, Skype and cheap flights to keep the relationship going.

Why not go to England (or wherever) for a year, work away and your bf can join you when he's finished. Or indeed use the money to go somewhere you both want to go.

I think you're putting a lot of obstacles in your own path, tbh. The longer you stay in this situation, the harder it will be to get out of it. Especially when other people with similar skills/qualifications as you are going to be fighting damn hard to get their lucky break.

Cork

Keep on the part - time job.

They are many out there in the same boat.

Don't get negative.

sashafierce

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