How do I apply for jobs online? What sites should I use and which should I avoid? I don't anything about nothing, man, and I'm just looking to apply for everything and anything.
In my experience a lot of companies have their own career sites (Google [company] careers) that you have to sign up for and apply through there. Then there're job boards like Indeed, Monster, Reed etc that you can put your C into and apply through there.
I spent most of the last year applying for hundreds of jobs and that required registering with and filling out the same information dozens of times on a bunch of sites of varying degrees of ease of use.
There's also Indeed and monster. I'd stay away from recruiters because they tend to be deceitful cunts second only to estate agents. But if you're desparate you could try Reed. LinkedIN might be worth a shout if you're a professional, I've heard mixed results.
Direct employer is probably best, the NHS is the largest employer in Britain, so try them and your local council website too. And as >>12808 says.
If you're confident, you can drop into businesses and ask if there are any vacancies. Something like 40% of jobs aren't advertised. I actually got a job this way. It turned out to be shite, but that's besides the point.
Failing all that, walk around randomly saying 'gizza job' and "I can do that!".
>>12813 I think we have been infiltrated by department for work and pensions black ops. If any asks 'So fellow anonymous poster how do you commit YOUR benefit fraud?' Keep it shtum.
>>12821 So you reckon Monster donated their source code to competitor Adzuna? You think they shared data but forced everyone to reregister, reupload their CVs and repost job ads for the fun of it? They shared data and yet no user was able to see any evidence of this.
Or is it that you don't have a fucking clue but feel entitled to argue anyway using ridiculous analogies?
>>12822 >You think they shared data but forced everyone to reregister, reupload their CVs and repost job ads for the fun of it?
It involves the DWP so that is in no way an unreasonable assumption.
I just knew there would be a thread about this already. I hate creating new threads because all my pictures are rubbish.
Anyway, please help me. My low-level IT support job has been abolished. Technically speaking, I had a meeting to inform me that my "role is at risk of redundancy", so I still work there but I'm on paid leave (they haven't called it gardening leave, but I think that's what it is) until Thursday next week. They have given me an offer of voluntary redundancy, or I can refuse that and do some kind of legal settlement negotiation or something, with legal advice and complicated madness. However, I need to decide before I go back in, so I have to tell them by Friday. I still don't understand how this makes sense. I've been in the same job for eight and a half years, so with the voluntary redundancy payment, the wages for my notice period, remaining leave and so on, I'd get £15,000 before tax. My annual salary if I stayed would probably be just under 40 grand including bonuses, so it's hard to turn down such lucre. My first question is: does anyone have any advice for this situation?
My second question is: what's the best way to find jobs? I have always been comically shocking at finding employment; I have spent over a year as a NEET on more than one occasion, and I think I worked out once that I was unemployed for four years in total in my 20s. Is LinkedIn good for jobs? Are the job websites better than they used to be? I was a datacentre engineer, but that's a pile of shit and I'd like a job that uses the more technical aspects of my knowledge if possible, that I used to use before we stopped offering them. I'm the man for web hosting, domain registrations, DNS, and server administration, but I think any jobs in that field are populated entirely by 20-year-olds, while I am 37 now. Would it be worth it for a 37-year-old to deal with recruitment agencies, now I have experience in an actual field? They used to always just try to palm me off on some call centre, but surely I can afford to be more discerning now. My job applications don't even need to be online; has anyone been to one of those career events that I assume still exist?
And lastly, is it a good idea or a bad idea to include a photo of yourself on your CV?
