Help!! Need a job

bugs

Meh,
Been unemployed for about 6 months, and the serious boredom is setting in. If anyone works somewhere with an opening for ANYTHING, bearing in mind that i graduated from DCU in applied chemistry, so i'd be a liking something like that.

But honestly, i'd work pretty much anywhere that'll take me cos i'm tired of being told i'm overqualified for jobs in the supermarket and the like.

Cheers

Morpheus

1. I think this will apply to you if u live in Dublin Cork or Galway only, not sure where this recruitment agency have their offices.



Go to an agency like "Addeco Recruitment" and register with them.

explain you want part time work or temporary work until they get u something permanent.

Im a software engineer, looking for IT work, its really tough being told your overqualified for graduate jobs and under qualified for normal IT roles, seems 2 years isnt enough for some jobs and too much for others!

Addeco recruitment got me work in a stationary suppliers warehouse, its 9 hrs a day at €9.60 an hour, not bad for pushin a trolley round a warehouse all day with no-one to push you around!

good luck with looking for work!
:rolleyes:

Blitzkrieger

Originally posted by Morphéus





Im a software engineer, looking for IT work, its really tough being told your overqualified for graduate jobs

omg - what graduate jobs! I can hardly find any 'junior' positions and they all tell me I'm under-qualified.

Greenbean

tbh, there really are no graduate jobs, if you hear of any Morp, it would probably be worth a pint or two to you if you posted them on this board. Theres a chance you've just been bull****ted to by the agency, who are apparently desperately advertising tons of non-existent jobs to keep the cv cabinets full.

Lafortezza

I've been looking for a job since before Christmas, finally got one today.

Recruitment agencies are not a huge amount of cop tbh, they will promise the world, and say that they are trying their hardest and pulling out all the stops on your behalf, but meanwhile they are sending your CV along with about 10 others to some company.

www.irishjobs.ie is not the greatest website but its about the only one I found that actual companies looking for people, (not recruitment agencies), nearly all other recruiment agency websites are full fake jobs, which are added to make it seem as if the recruitment agency is full to the brim of jobs.

www.firstaff.ie isn't bad for temp jobs, I got 2 decent temp jobs from there, usually they'll ring u , u say you're interested, go for meet and greet interview the next day then start the following day or week, handy quick cash and they're usually lenient if you are going for other interviews.

I got my job through the fas website, www.fas.ie surprisingly
loads of jobs on it, its free to post jobs on it and to get details of jobs from it, and there's no agency sh!te to be dealt with.

I'm off for a dak of celebration now!

WhiteWashMan

what exactly is a graduate job?

and what is stopping you from looking for 'non' graduate jobs?

anyone can get a job.

its getting a job you want on the money you want thats the hard part.

but beggers cant be choosers sometimes. However, youd be surprised what you can learn in a position thats out of your comfort zone. too many people try to remain in their comfort zone with jobs and i think thats a bad idea.
2 cents worth.

Wook

you got any languages ? if you do , i might have a ****ty job for you

eth0_

It's easy to get a job if you're as non-choosy as you say! You need to tailor your CV to fit each application though.

Call centre jobs are particularly plentiful. Also check out www.nixers.com that's pretty good.

gurramok

i'll second that, call centre jobs are available, foreign euro languages are a neccessity.
It could be worthwhile to get on the ladder until you get your chosen job.
At the end of the day, its the $$ that counts in real life, career path can come second

bugs

Thanks guys,
I've tried the call center type things, and i can even speak french pretty fluently. Unfortunetly, if i leave my degree in the CV, they tell me i'm overqualified and will find a job soon enough (why the hell do they think i'm applying to a call center, for my health?)
And if i leave it out, they generally ask me what exactly i've been at for the past 5 years as spoofing jobs when i've only had summer jobs and both my references are from chemistry companies for computer work and lab work so that kinda offsets any chance of convincing ppl i'm joe soap.

Greenbean

Call centres don't usually throw out applicants, even if they reckon you're only in for the short term... they are usually well used to that. The average length of time people stay in a call centre is about a year I'm told.

Wook

Bugs the company i work for is always looking for languages.
And my ex-teamleader was a Phd in Microbiology..

Keylost

Hi there.. Richie Beirne from RTE RADIO 1, The Business Show..
<snipt>

RobertFoster

They have time travel on the radios now? Cool.

Waxing the Gaza

lafortezza wrote: »

www.irishjobs.ie is not the greatest website but its about the only one I found that actual companies looking for people, (not recruitment agencies), nearly all other recruiment agency websites are full fake jobs, which are added to make it seem as if the recruitment agency is full to the brim of jobs.

I'd second the use of www.irishjobs.ie and www.jobs.ie are by far the best. They actually advertise real jobs (after you filter out agencies of course!!). Well done on getting the job too btw, hope it works out for you.

Tom Dunne

Waxing the Gaza wrote: »

Well done on getting the job too btw, hope it works out for you.

You do know that he got the job six years ago? (hint: look at the posting date)

GoneShootin

Keylost banned for such a shameless plug, and dragging up such an old post. I mean REALLY old....