BearTricks
Established Member
Hi,
I wouldn't usually do this but I'm getting desperate. I've been unemployed for coming up to a year. Up until September of last year I was working for the public sector on a project teaching media skills to under-served and at-risk people. A charity approached the public sector organisation in order to start the project, the organisation needed someone to run the project on their end and so hired me (I'm being vague for privacy's sake).
I was pretty good at the job, but budget cuts and general resistance meant that I never really got anything meaningful done. I eventually took voluntary redundancy because there were waves of people losing their jobs and I correctly guessed that mine would be next. The voluntary redundancy was a lot more generous than the mandatory one I would have endured a month or so after I left.
Since leaving I've struggled to find anything. My experience in media isn't enough to land me a job there, and everyone else is rightly bemused by my last job. I essentially didn't learn enough in any of the skills I was using to employ them anywhere else. I've applied for similar things and I've applied for completely out of the box stuff. I've had two interviews, one for a job I didn't particularly want and one for something I thought I was perfect for and which offered a lot of training. Neither went as well as I'd hoped. I haven't heard back from 99% of the places I've applied to, from well paid project manager stuff to shelf stacking.
I'm 26, so at the top end of national minimum wage, which makes me unattractive to potential employers who can employ someone younger for cheaper. Anything above that is skilled jobs, most of which I don't have the skills for. I've also become aware that the longer I go without getting anything, the worse my confidence becomes and the less I can manage to sell myself. I have been looking at joining the Navy, but a past medical issue means I have to wait another year before I can apply.
And I am fully aware that people will look at this and jeer at the media-type degree. If I could go back, tell the university to stuff their manipulated employment data then slap my 17 year old self across the face and tell him to get an apprenticeship I would. As it is I'm stuck struggling to see a way forward and whinging about my bad decisions doesn't help much, although that doesn't stop me most days.
Anyway this is a long winded way of asking if anyone knows of any employment opportunities knocking about, and I mean more or less anything. I know it's a long shot, but maybe someone has heard of something on the grapevine or knows of any jobs that will recruit and train someone with the opportunity to move up the ladder. Otherwise, feel free to use this thread to talk about the state of unemployment in the country or related topics so it isn't clogging up the forum's arteries unnecessarily.
Edit: I'm based around Wigan but happy to travel within driving distance.
I wouldn't usually do this but I'm getting desperate. I've been unemployed for coming up to a year. Up until September of last year I was working for the public sector on a project teaching media skills to under-served and at-risk people. A charity approached the public sector organisation in order to start the project, the organisation needed someone to run the project on their end and so hired me (I'm being vague for privacy's sake).
I was pretty good at the job, but budget cuts and general resistance meant that I never really got anything meaningful done. I eventually took voluntary redundancy because there were waves of people losing their jobs and I correctly guessed that mine would be next. The voluntary redundancy was a lot more generous than the mandatory one I would have endured a month or so after I left.
Since leaving I've struggled to find anything. My experience in media isn't enough to land me a job there, and everyone else is rightly bemused by my last job. I essentially didn't learn enough in any of the skills I was using to employ them anywhere else. I've applied for similar things and I've applied for completely out of the box stuff. I've had two interviews, one for a job I didn't particularly want and one for something I thought I was perfect for and which offered a lot of training. Neither went as well as I'd hoped. I haven't heard back from 99% of the places I've applied to, from well paid project manager stuff to shelf stacking.
I'm 26, so at the top end of national minimum wage, which makes me unattractive to potential employers who can employ someone younger for cheaper. Anything above that is skilled jobs, most of which I don't have the skills for. I've also become aware that the longer I go without getting anything, the worse my confidence becomes and the less I can manage to sell myself. I have been looking at joining the Navy, but a past medical issue means I have to wait another year before I can apply.
And I am fully aware that people will look at this and jeer at the media-type degree. If I could go back, tell the university to stuff their manipulated employment data then slap my 17 year old self across the face and tell him to get an apprenticeship I would. As it is I'm stuck struggling to see a way forward and whinging about my bad decisions doesn't help much, although that doesn't stop me most days.
Anyway this is a long winded way of asking if anyone knows of any employment opportunities knocking about, and I mean more or less anything. I know it's a long shot, but maybe someone has heard of something on the grapevine or knows of any jobs that will recruit and train someone with the opportunity to move up the ladder. Otherwise, feel free to use this thread to talk about the state of unemployment in the country or related topics so it isn't clogging up the forum's arteries unnecessarily.
Edit: I'm based around Wigan but happy to travel within driving distance.
