How did you get your job?

GenieOz · 31-03-2014 10:10am

Started doing work experience, work experience ended but they still needed me..job began. 8 years later and I'm still here, how horrible.

Maximus Alexander · 31-03-2014 10:16am

Got out of college and took a part time job at a magazine, completely unrelated to my degree, because I still lived at home, wanted spending money, but wasn't ready for the 'real world' yet.

A year later I decided I wanted more money, so took a full time job elsewhere which was, again, completely unrelated to my degree. It was hell, so I left after three months. The recession hit - I was out of work for a little while.

An opportunity randomly appeared working for a proper, grown up company that was tangentially related to my degree, so I jumped at it. Two interviews later I was in. 5 years later I'm still here, wondering what I'm doing with my life and trying to figure out how to get into a line of work from which I actually derive satisfaction, but terrified to actually take any action to change things.

Fun times is this being grown up lark.

LadyMayBelle · 31-03-2014 10:19am

Moved to London, applied to agencies and replied to job ads, no joy. Out walking one day feeling miserable about having had zero luck when spotted a special needs school. Took note of the company name, went home and googled it, turned out there was a social work Job going, applied, got it. Still here 4 years later.

Funnily enough, the school was called 'The Hope Centre'..

Sleepy · 31-03-2014 10:20am

degree, post-grad, sent CV to every software company based in Ireland in the phone book and the first 20/30 pages of Google, got an interview, got a graduate job, got promoted internally twice over 6 years, got made redundant, contracted in the UK for 6 months and then got a message on LinkedIn from a guy looking for someone with my experience in an ERP program, had a chat on the phone, met for an interview got the job and 4 years later I'm still here and have been promoted once.

Kintarō Hattori · 31-03-2014 10:28am

I frickin' love my job and was incredibly lucky to get it. I had been let go from my previous job of 10 years and put a load of CVs online. My prior company was somewhat high profile and my new boss to be had seen that it was going out of business. He called the office stating that he had a job for whoever worked in my position but they never got back to him as they knew they were going to go back into business (leaner and slimmer) and simply offer me my job back.

I was offered my job back and gladly took it. However a recruitment agency who worked with my future new company saw my CV online and gave me a call. They set up a phone interview with the new boss to be, I turned the offer down. Cue another phone interview, a trip to London for an interview and I'll shortly be here two years. I love the job and the people. I'm extremely fortunate to be here as fate could have conspired against me.

eviltimeban · 31-03-2014 10:35am

I've never gotten a job from an agency - always applied directly to companies myself.

Deise Vu · 31-03-2014 10:43am

Got a good leaving cert but parents couldn't afford Uni. I had an 'A' in economics so one of my older siblings decided I was a financial genius and should do accountancy (could live at home and was paid a small wage while working and studying).
Duly did interview with accountancy firm and eventually qualified as a chartered accountant.
After qualification got job in a factory where I was interviewed by the father of a friend,
Got next job after I said something very funny at the start of the interview and, also, one of the interviewers wanted to stick one on another company I was considering an offer from.
Got next job after being interviewed by a friend of the family.

It is a fairly pathetic career path especially considering I am (if I do say so myself) highly qualified. It particularly grinds my gears that I worked at the job getting huge experience while studying at night which requires enormous sacrifice, diligence and dedication, then you see the perfect job and they want someone with a degree! Aaaaarrghh..... (probably for a different thread I suppose).

minidazzler · 31-03-2014 10:49am

Decided I'd make a great bar manager. So got some experience behind an old mans bar I drink in from time to time.

Then applied for a job in a new opening night club and started with 67 other people, and worked my way to number 5 in the hierarchy.

Stopped learning anything new for like 3 months because there's only so much a night club can teach,

so applied for a new job and am now bottom bitch in another bar having started last week, but with a lot more ability to expand my knowledge.

I consider bartending/managing (eventually) to be my career. Because, why not? It's a fun job and it'll always be in demand if you are good at it.

gramar · 31-03-2014 10:50am

I was talking to a fella I knew who had done an interview but needed English and he hadn't a clueso I asked him where it had been and what it was for. It sounded right up my street and I happened to be looking to change at the time so sent them a CV and did an interview which was supposed to be in English but there wasn't much point so we did it in Spanish instead. Here I am almost 6 years later.

Ilyana 2.0 · 31-03-2014 11:39am

I asked my Dad for a job in the company he worked for.

But I was 16 and it was 2008, the company was handing part-time jobs to anyone who asked. Don't think I'll be quite so lucky when I have to get a grown-up job after I graduate from college :P

everdead.ie · 31-03-2014 11:43am

Wrong thread.

danniemcq · 31-03-2014 11:44am

Was doing a FAS course, went to a job fair and left my CV with one of those American Insurance companies, thought no more of it till a few weeks later myself and a few others in the class got called for an interview to become claims processors. Passed all the tests etc and then again heard nothing for ages so i rang them and was told that those positions were cancelled.

had no interviews or anything, this was height of the slump and in Donegal so there wasn't much but then the company rang me and said they had a job that involved databases and that they had looked through all the CVs they had on record and one was mine.

Interview the next day and started 2 weeks later.

Fluorescence · 31-03-2014 12:04pm

Was applying for various jobs during college years, no joy. One summer I saw a sign up in a window looking for people to either drop in CVs or email this address, except the email was spelt wrong. I copped it and sent it off to the right address - got a reply 2 hours later asking me to come in the next day for interview. The rest is misery-laden history :pac:

31-03-2014 12:25pm

Started serving my time as a sparks right when the boom ended. Four years later I qualified and was let go within a fortnight along with the rest of my sparky buddies. They jumped ship to Australia straight away while I stayed here and looked for another job, any job. Couldn't leave anyway due to family issues.

Got a job making replacement knees in a factory after an exact year of being unemployed. My brother has been here for the last 9 years and I had an uncle here 35 years. We are slowly becoming a family of knee makers.

Anyway it's a handy number that pays fairly well and I'll happily spend the rest of my life making knees.

MRnotlob606 · 31-03-2014 2:32pm

AgileMyth wrote: »

Needed a job to pay my way through college. Took full time hours when I finished and am still here two years after finishing my course. Sent out a few job applications in the early days then just got sort of caught in a slump. I'm earning more than enough to live comfortably but hate the job.

Finishing up there on Thursday and getting on a plane. We'll see what the world has to offer.

All the best with your endeavours

I am pie · 31-03-2014 2:44pm

Left, got married, honeymooned, moved across the other side of the world, got a call asking me to call in for a chat, started work for the same crowd on the other side of the world.

Lots of studying and 15 odd years of experience various places came before all this marrying and travelling carry on.

megaten · 31-03-2014 2:46pm

Was asked to come back after I finished my degree from a person I did work experience for.

WilyCoyote · 31-03-2014 2:49pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Ha! Not falling for that one. Years ago a fella set up a mushroom house down the road, made a bleeding fortune so he did. Holiday in Mosney every year, brand new secondhand three year old Datsun Bluebird every couple of years.

But all the townspeople got jealous of him and his fancy ways, and thought to themselves, we want a piece of this sophisticated lifestyle, rocking down to Butlins in our Japanese luxury sedans. And soon every fcuker about the place had a mushroom house, even though half of them didn't know one end of a mushroom from the other, and even less knew what to do with them.

And the arse fell out of the mushroom business and they all lived poorly ever after.

How're Monaghan's Ladies GAA football team this year?

Wanders_fan · 31-03-2014 2:50pm

I have more or less only had 2 real jobs in my life. I started working weekends as Lifeguard as 15/16 year old. I got the job because I was swimmer and I trained in the pool 14-20 hours a week. I just knew everyone there. They offered me a job when I was doing Lifesaving training as they knew me. That got me through school/Uni for weekends and summers. In this time I was promoted to head lifeguard. Finished my degree in Civil Eng and didn't know what to do.

I wasn't pushed on Civil Eng and it was the height of the bust (2010) so I stayed at the pool. I decided to go to Oz in Jan 2011. I worked odd jobs nothing longer than a month. Came home after 6months due to a death in the family and never went back to OZ. Straight back to work at the Pool. After 2months back I was made pool manager, 3 months later building manager. Its 2012 and the GM role for the business comes up and I have 10 years experience and know more about the building than most. So I apply didn't get the job, got the last 2 but the right man got the job.

This was a kick up the arse for me and immediately I started applying for graduate programs. I applied to all the major companies I could the only requirement being not civil eng. The first reply was from one of my top 2 choices (the other was Jamesons) and they were the first interview I got. They offered me a job before I got a chance to do any other interviews.Still wish I tried the Jamesons one.

So last August I left the pool and moved to Manchester to work. I love it. I work for a food company which is not related to anything I learned in Uni but its great. I have never really used my connections actively. I got my first job because I was know but the offer probably came to me because I was cheap and trained labour. I started on €4.75/hour

WilyCoyote · 31-03-2014 2:59pm

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

been shoe shinning here in long island since the great crash in "29"

Did you get the cheque from Michael D yet?

fl4pj4ck · 31-03-2014 4:56pm

Talent acquisition for the company I'm currently working for found me on LinkedIn. Went for the 1st round of interviews out of 3 and got the job straight away beating all other candidates. Working doing what I love, that's the most important part. And it pays the bills.

Lia_lia · 31-03-2014 6:45pm

Finished a degree in May, which is kinda related to my job. Had 4 interviews, got the job. Only 5 of us chosen from 300+ applicants. Not bad!

Galwayguy35 · 31-03-2014 6:48pm

Saw an ad in the paper, went for interview and got the job, I'm a high viz man so the interview was fairly basic tbh.

kevin allpro · 31-03-2014 6:54pm

i play poker only now but i held a job for a long time at a online sportsbook and i started working there because my family owned a dry cleaner shop where the sport book owner toke his clothes, one day i was at my family store when the SB owner showed up in a brand new Hummer 1 ( the real badass one) i asked him if i could take a look at the car and he told me to go ahead, after that he offer me a ride home and on the way home we stopped a the bar for drinks, turn out to be a super fun dude and after about 7 or 8 beers he offered me a job which i toke thinking i do this while I'm in college and get some extra cash.. ended up working on the industry for about 10 year

Son Of A Vidic · 31-03-2014 6:59pm

GuyFawkes wrote: »

That's the problem for a lot of people - they simply ended up in jobs as opposed to doing something they want or something that even just suits them better.

Very often what we want to do and what we have to do are diametrically opposed. Most people just simply have no choice.

Senna · 31-03-2014 7:00pm

Started working 1hour after my last Junior Cert exam, liked the industry so when to college and got a degree, after college I got into a low level management position, year later a slightly better position in a different company, I'll be with them 10 years this Friday in various roles.
Thinking of reskilling and changing industry completely.

maguic24 · 31-03-2014 7:01pm

Got my degree, did a bit of work experience during the summer while I was in college.
After I graduated, I spent 5 months looking for working and sending CV's to everyone and anyone. Went to about 9 interviews, got 3 job offers. I rejected one, accepted another but the last job offer I got was better paid so I took that one in the end and I'm still there. :P

I'm now working full time and trying to get through a masters at the moment.

Working full time and trying to study part time sucks.

Skill Magill · 31-03-2014 7:35pm

Did a fas course, 1 year, then jobbridge for 9 months, got a job. Wouldn't have got job without the experience of jobbridge

cloud493 · 31-03-2014 7:45pm

Repeating the leaving. One of the people I was repeating with comes in, asks me if I want a job. I say yeah. We went to meet his manager, job get,

boobar · 31-03-2014 7:59pm

I was looking for a job and then I found a job .....

How did you get your job?

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