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Redundant? Looking for work? Vacancies posted here!

I don't know any of the details but the colleague is someone who volunteers for the same charity as me

http://abandofbrothers.org.uk

and so I can vouch for him as someone whose heart is generally in the right place

I guess it means it is doing something that he regards as more worthwhile than - I dunno cold calling for a PPI reclaims company or somesuch

but obviously keep your eyes open as with any such job I guess...I remember my time in call centres with mixed emotions
 
Piers Gibbon said:
A colleague passed this on to me...

"Do you or any one you know NEED or WANT to earn some regular money for a worthy company.
Time off for auditions,castings,session work etc. My partner has been asked to recruit 100 people immediately for a Government backed training scheme.
The work will be in an upmarket call centre in East London with creative people such as Actors,Dancers and Musicians.
The hours and days are flexible Monday to Friday.
Must have a clear speaking voice and enjoy sales over the phone .
No cold calling and full training given and a chance to gain a qualification.
The rate of pay is
£6.75ph up to £12.00ph .
Please call or text Simon or Laura on 07855813120 alternatively
You can also Email
Simongoodchild@hotmail.com
Please spread the word!
All applicants must be 19 years of age and over"
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For a "Government backed training scheme" and "Upmarket" you'd expert contact details a bit better than a Hotmail address and a mobile number
 
hang on, is this really something dodgy or just not a very brilliant job?

Please let me know if you have genuine reason to think it is dodgy and I will delete it...I have no axe to grind either way nor any relationship with this guy...I just got an email about jobs on offer and passed it on here
 
Piers Gibbon said:
hang on, is this really something dodgy or just not a very brilliant job?

Please let me know if you have genuine reason to think it is dodgy and I will delete it...I have no axe to grind either way nor any relationship with this guy...I just got an email about jobs on offer and passed it on here
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I'm just a bit suspicious of this type of ad, it is a bit anonymous - This is a Telephone fund raising company
 
Ah well I guess your warning is up here right next to the original email so everyone one can see it, thanks

I vaguely assumed it would be something like ringing companies to alert them to govt apprenticeship schemes or somesuch

If anyone has any further info on them or this I'm sure it will go up here too but I guess it should stay for now
 
I apologise if this sounds like a drive-by recruitment ad, but it's hard not to. Anyway, if anyone is looking for a job in IT, sales, customer services, or a range of other positions, we are hiring in several locations, some of which include relocation:

https://workingatbooking.com/

I've been here over 8 years, it's a great employer. Feel free to contact me directly if you're interested. :)
 
Buddy Bradley said:
I apologise if this sounds like a drive-by recruitment ad, but it's hard not to. Anyway, if anyone is looking for a job in IT, sales, customer services, or a range of other positions, we are hiring in several locations, some of which include relocation:

https://workingatbooking.com/

I've been here over 8 years, it's a great employer. Feel free to contact me directly if you're interested. :)
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"one of the world's largest Perl-powered websites"

:eek: :D

They'll retrain you though, which is cool.
 
fractionMan said:
"one of the world's largest Perl-powered websites"

:eek: :D
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Yeah, I know - but we actually employ a lot of the world's top Perl guys, including many contributors to the core, we host the main Perl repository, and we donate large amounts to the Perl Foundation every year. So it's not just a case of old technology, it's a definite business decision that we run on Perl. (Although obviously we also have various things in other languages too.)
 
Part time admin job available at my place, standard hours fit with school hours so would be good for parents, although there will be some Saturday working (once a month):

Office Administrator Birmingham
With recent contract extensions and new work streams we need additional support to help continue our highly successful delivery in the West Midlands.

We therefore require a part time administrator to join a team which aims to stimulate interest and take-up of cycling. This role requires strong organisational and administrative skills and absolute attention to detail.

This is a fixed term contract until 31st March 2016.

Standard hours between 9.30am-2.30pm; however, since our training delivery is now taking place 7 days a week the post holder will need to demonstrate flexibility and be available to work at weekends, with a minimum commitment of one Saturday per month.

Starting salary £16,500 per annum pro rata.

To apply download and complete our application form:


http://www.bikeright.co.uk/for_more/careers/
 
If anyone knows of any Office Manager type jobs going (in London) I would be incredibly grateful if you could give me a shout!
:(
 
Corax said:
Is this thread still what the OP started? If so...

No specific vacancies, but I'd recommend anyone looking for work taking a look at http://www.jobs.nhs.uk. All NHS jobs have to go on there I think.

I'm referring to non-clinical jobs.

My experience of the NHS is that applicants aren't universally brilliant to say the least, which helps the odds when it comes to getting a job. And although redundancies are happening all over the place, turnover is high so there are still vacancies in most places. If someone can do the usual interview/job skills bit of speaking formally & making the right faces, and they can also work Excel and Word well, they may find themselves at an advantage for quite a wide range of positions.

The thing that keeps a lot of applicants out of a job though, is their understanding of the NHS itself. It's stupidly complex, in a multitude of different ways. I have a suspicion that it's not uncommon for crap candidates to be hired over far more skilled people, purely because they already have a job in the NHS and so understand WTF their interviewer is wittering on about. So if anyone is going to apply for an NHS job from outside, then

  1. Do your research.
  2. Pm me. I'll help. I should be able to point you towards the things you need to read and understand for the type of role you're applying for at least. Certainly with hospital jobs, a bit with PCTs (CCGs or NHS England now), less so with mental health.
I'm not slagging the NHS workforce off btw. There are a lot of really good people working for a lot less money than they could be getting elsewhere. But because of the specialised knowledge, jargon etc it can be a bit of a closed shop.

I'd also suggest that once you're in there are usually quite a few opportunities to step up, based on merit more than qualifications. More so than I found when I worked in the private sector.
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I never had much response from this, so just thought I'd repost it two years down the line.

I work with a guy who joined two years ago in a admin role - minimum wage basically. Band 2, £14k p/a. He's now on a band 6 - £26k starting, increasing year on year up to 34.5 after 8. The jobs are definitely there within the NHS.

There are regular (clinical and non-clicical) chances available, and not all Trusts are the clusterfuck the press would have you believe. If you're looking for a job, check the NHS jobs website and pm me the details - I'll advise on what you need to read up on, and what to emphasise in your application.
 
Corax said:
I never had much response from this, so just thought I'd repost it two years down the line.

I work with a guy who joined two years ago in a admin role - minimum wage basically. Band 2, £14k p/a. He's now on a band 6 - £26k starting, increasing year on year up to 34.5 after 8. The jobs are definitely there within the NHS.

There are regular (clinical and non-clicical) chances available, and not all Trusts are the clusterfuck the press would have you believe. If you're looking for a job, check the NHS jobs website and pm me the details - I'll advise on what you need to read up on, and what to emphasise in your application.
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I've been wondering about working for NHS - I could certainly earn more than I do now. I like my job at the moment - but anytime people piss me off I like to look around - so thanks for that link.
 
Corax said:
I never had much response from this, so just thought I'd repost it two years down the line.

I work with a guy who joined two years ago in a admin role - minimum wage basically. Band 2, £14k p/a. He's now on a band 6 - £26k starting, increasing year on year up to 34.5 after 8. The jobs are definitely there within the NHS.

There are regular (clinical and non-clicical) chances available, and not all Trusts are the clusterfuck the press would have you believe. If you're looking for a job, check the NHS jobs website and pm me the details - I'll advise on what you need to read up on, and what to emphasise in your application.
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presumably over qualified for the band 2 role ?

internal applications are often a way to 'fame and fortune' as unless there;s a redeployment pool going on, internals get first bite of the cherry
 
zippyRN said:
presumably over qualified for the band 2 role ?

internal applications are often a way to 'fame and fortune' as unless there;s a redeployment pool going on, internals get first bite of the cherry
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Having had a recent chat with him, I think it was actually a band 3/4 - but still not exactly big bucks. It was on a temp contract for 2 years, then he got made substantive and bumped up the pay grade. He's earnt it in all honesty. Similarly to my own skill set, he's a jack-of-all-trades and autodidactic. With the gazillion targets and constant demand for 'change/improvement' in the NHS coming down from Westminster/DoH/Monitor/CQC/The TDA/CCGs/NHS England (can anyone tell me who's actually 'in charge' of running the NHS please...? None of us know... :confused:) there's an ever present need for people who don't have set daily commitments necessarily, but can just get out on the front-line and talk to the staff, work out what's going wrong with the processes, patient pathways, staffing skillmix etc (anything and everything basically), link different silos within the organisation and facilitate a dialogue between them, and then propose a set of options along with costs, risks, and benefits (quality benefits as well as £££).

When people ask me what I "do" at the hospital, I'm at a loss to tell them to be honest. "Stuff", is the most accurate answer I can come up with.

But anyway, opportunities are there at all levels. More so at lower bandings, but once you're in, you can progress quickly if you prove your worth. After leaving the private sector I took a big pay cut and joined as a MH support worker on a band 2. A year later I was working as a "buyer" in NHS procurement on a band 3. A year later I was tasked with implementing the new electronic requisitioning/ordering procurement catalogue on a 4. A year later I was a contract negotiator on a band 5, I carried on in similar fashion until I spent 3 years as a band 7 Service Improvement Manager (jack-of-all-trades), and now I'm doing something similar but with a finance aspect to it a band up again.
poptyping said:
I fucking hate internal applicants :)
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Yeah, I don't "hate internal applicants" :D, but know what you mean and I hate this too. There are quite often times when they know precisely who they're going to appoint internally, but HR policies oblige them to advertise it. It wastes the time of the interviewers, but my heart really goes out to the external applicants, who have sometimes travelled a long way for the interview (as well as all their preparation), just so that an HR box can be ticked and the job be given to the person they were going to appoint all along. It's not good.
 
Corax said:
Yeah, I don't "hate internal applicants" :D, but know what you mean and I hate this too. There are quite often times when they know precisely who they're going to appoint internally, but HR policies oblige them to advertise it. It wastes the time of the interviewers, but my heart really goes out to the external applicants, who have sometimes travelled a long way for the interview (as well as all their preparation), just so that an HR box can be ticked and the job be given to the person they were going to appoint all along. It's not good.
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Dead right. I'm applying for a job right now with a local authority and all the time I'm wondering if it's really worth it because it'll probably go to some internal candidate anyway - but of course if you don't try you'll never know, obvs.
 
Dr. Furface said:
Dead right. I'm applying for a job right now with a local authority and all the time I'm wondering if it's really worth it because it'll probably go to some internal candidate anyway - but of course if you don't try you'll never know, obvs.
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There are exceptions of course. I was nailed on for a position dealing with mortality data, but another external applicant had worked for the company that produced that data. If it wasn't for that applicant I would have had the job, but with them applying it was like trying to win a swimming competition against a fuckin dolphin. :( :D
 
couple of admin / data type jobs going with TSSA trade union on temp basis here

other than being a fairly recently joined member, don't know a lot about working for them - although aware they recently had their employees on strike over proposed redundancies. the fact they have vacancies at the end of it makes me :hmm: a bit...
 
The Antarctic Heritage Trust are advertising for people to work for 5 months in Antarctica: http://www.ukaht.org/about-us/jobs

Are you happy not to shower for up to a month, live in close proximity to three people and 2,000 smelly penguins for five months? / – can you carry a big heavy box over slippery rocks and slushy snow whilst dodging penguins?
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Get yer applications in by 27th February
 
My employer has gone down the tubes so I'm looking for part time adminny/communicationsy/customer servicey type roles, preferably in the charity/non-profit sector, although most recent job was in software.

Or possibly casual work of some description.
 
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