Redundancy / job hunters kleek

Sending you lots and lots of fab job vibes.

The best news for me is that my appointment with the job centre (for benefits) has been brought forward from tuesday to Saturday. ? I need to phone my old employers to find out if and when I'm going to be paid. I feel sick at the thought, as I suspect I know what their answer is going to be. ?

Sending get fabby job vibes to you.. send me some back if you do will you? Or at least "give me an interview" vibes.. over 10 applications in, 5 more to do and 4 rejections so far...

I'm signing on for the fist time on monday and my old job are paying me up till the 7th so there's still a bit of cash from them to come.

Right, back to application filling in.

J

New member here.?

My job title no longer exists but my company has a "strong will" to redeploy me. I have a meeting tomorrow to discuss my options. All this is complicated by my being 33 weeks pregnant and virtually unemployable elsewhere. I need this like a hole in the head, at the moment.

Lots of new job vibes to you all! x x

I've graduated but my husband has taken my place.

However, his redundancy is pretty much a watertight case for unfair dismissal and he has his appeal hearing on Monday.

In the meantime, he's had 3 interviews and had 2 more 1st interviews and a 2nd interview lined up this week. Lots of positive vibes for H please!

Good luck to everyone else - it's such a merry-go-round!

I'm still in the kleek.

I've applied for a couple of jobs and still waiting to see if I've get an interview.

I've actually had 4 agencies call me today with vacancies. 1 was completely unsuitable, 1 that I had already seen the job on the employers website and had applied direct and 2 that I'm interested in, one of them a lot more than the other. Fingers crossed I get some interviews. I've realised how slowly things seem to move.

Good luck to everyone else.

I'm still here too but finally finding things to apply for. Have found my perfect job and the application went in last week. Interviews are week after next so at least I know when I should here by if I get that far. So fingers crossed for that one. I've a couple of other things to apply for/have applied for but they aren't really what I want to do.

Good luck to everyone!

I'm still here. I fear I will be forever ?

I just can't get companies to see me, it's soooo annoying! I've been turned down for two more jobs today, one said "She's too experienced, she'll be telling me what to do", the other said my experience was "too high end", which is now the 2nd time that's been said to me! I give up, I really do!

I have one more job that I'm in for and if they won't see me I'm going to give up and live off benefits! H isn't having any success either and to be honest we are both HATING recruitment consultants and getting rather bitter and twisted about the whole thing.

Humph!

I AM GRADUATING!!! I got the 2nd job I mentioned above!!!????

Will be back to read through the rest of the thread in a bit (once sproglet is fed and watered!)

Congratulations! Especially as it was the job you were most interested in. That's great news.

Fingers crossed for the rest of us.

wooo hhooo!!

When do you start?

I need to join this kleek <sob>.

The agency I've been contracting through went into receivership yesterday, and the company I'm working at had to terminate my contract as a result. I'm still owed pay for December, and now I won't get paid for January either, during which I incurred several thousand dollars worth of expenses for the company! Gah! Am having a meeting with a legal advisor later this morning to go through my contract to ensure that they've acted legally, and then a meeting with the company I was working at to see if there is any way they will pay me for the work done for January.

Not sure of start date at the moment. Need to get sproglet settled at nursery so will be a couple of weeks (they were aware of this though).

Oh god, that sounds shit Imelda. Fingers crossed your contract keeps you covered.

Oh dear - that isn't sounding very positive at the moment. I thought your H had a few options?

I hate the 'too experienced' thing. And why too high end? Not sure how that is a bad thing?

Good luck Kegsey and Michpuss then. Fingers crossed the roles you like the look of come through.

And thanks for all my vibes - they obviously worked?

Sorry to see new members as well.

Can I join? I'm working my notice just now...3 weeks to go.

Having to move back to Scotland as H has 'dumped' me. Looking for jobs in Glasgow area, applied for 44, heard nothing ?

Gah.

Hey guys,

well I have an interview tomorrow at Noon. Can i have some "stay relaxed and don't be nervous" vibes!

Hope everyone else has luck this week!?

J

Good luck ashke!

Hi guys,

I've known about my impending redundancy for aaages now (public sector restructuring). Intially thought my job was going in March 08, then Sept 08, then we got kept on for 6 months as a transition team. However it's now certain I'll be out of a job end of March this year. Started by job hunt properly a few weeks ago. So far I've only found a couple of jobs I've actually liked the look of. One application rejected already. Luckily, my H mentioned me to a mate of his and I went for a discussion with the MD of the company last week. It was really positive and now I'm just waiting to hear back from him with a proper job description. He told me it could be up to a week though... damn. Makes it very difficult to concentrate on any other applications.

Waiting, waiting...️?️

Great news! Loads of vibes coming your way. Which role is it?

Good Luck and loads of stay relaxed vibes ?

Congratulations RBH ?

Well i'm still here, have had three interviews in the last two weeks and three rejections! Two i was over-qualified for, and the other one i didn't have enough experience for! A guy i used to work for has offered me some part time work so i'm just waiting to hear back from him this week and i have an interview tomorrow afternoon. I seem to breeze through the interviews but someone with more experience always comes along. Never mind! Good Luck to everyone else on the job hunting front.

Sorry, had to go out to sign on, it's for a Customer Service Supervisor at Screwfix Direct on one of their trade desks.

J

Fabulous news about your job RBH!!!

I feel much more positive this week, the fact that January is out of the way seems to have moved things along. I've also had two pitches come through today for self employed work so I'm certain something will come off (famous last words!)

Good luck to everyone who has interviews this week!

Thankyou and it must have done some good as I've just had a letter about an interview! Next Tuesday. Wayhay!! Now, what do I wear? <panic>

And I've got one on Thursday (gulp)

Yay! Good luck!

My H has 2nd & 3rd tomorrow for a job he really wants. He's busy preparing his presentation at home at the mo. Please send lots of vibes!

Good luck to Kegsey and mitchpuss

what to wear: i ended up buying a new dress from Next - one of those blouse and skirt all in one jobbies. Nice and easy to wear and looks really tidy. Only problem is i can't get the pussybow to work! ?

ETA vibes for alison's H!

Well my interview went well, will hear by the end of the week either way. The assistant manager had to do the interview as the manager got snowed in on the Moray Coast! Though if they've taken a photocopy of my passport , that's a good sign isn't it?

Good luck to everuyone else!!

Jo