Job Hunt

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Just spoken to a Recruitment Executive who stated that this time last year they would get on average of 50 Cvs per role now they are getting 120+! Grrr

Ive been looking for 3-4 weeks and have had my CV put forward a few times but never get any further.

How are other peoples job hunt going?

 

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Crap i thought i could get a job by august but i think i may have to go to uni since i cant get a job.

 

I know experienced people who are having to look for 3-6 months to land a role, 3-4 weeks is nothing.

 

55 weeks and counting

 

I've been working in the IT industry for the past 11-12 years - mainly as a contractor. I prefered to work this way because it mean't I didn't have to get caught up in all the office politics, it gave me freedom, and the cash was pretty good too

After having two kids I decided itwas time for a more stable career and about six months ago I jumped into a full-time role. I figured the steady (albeit small income) would help us to plan things out better and stop the boom and bust type lifestyle we had.

In some respects it was a good move as the market has died a death but in true sods law fashion I have recently been put at risk of redundancy

I don't think I'll be let go but it does show that I'm no more secure in a full-time role.

The only roles going in my place at the moment are for helpdesk but they do pay 20k. Anyone live in Merseyside?

 

I started out in desktop support, did three years in server support and I'm currently working as the manager of a small desktop support/server admin team. Can't say much at the moment but I'm in the process of moving back to a technical role - love this stuff.

 

The job market is fairly crud at the moment, I thankfully recently dodged the redundancy bullet but while the consultation process was going on I did take the opportunity to update the CV and look around at whats out there.

The answer was not much, a lot of very technically specific roles, a few developer jobs and not much else.

I do know of one outfit in the area looking for 1st Line support staff but it would be weird as all hell working with my sister...

 

You just need to go onto Reed to see how many are applying for IT Support jobs. I had a quick look and saw a job for an IT Support bod for GPs...it had 127 applications.

In the West Midlands things are really bad, Jobsite has had the same 3 IT Support jobs for Birmingham on that page for over 3 weeks (the postings are over 3 weeks old).