I am not ure which section this should go in but - with just over 3 weeks to go to my wedding I have lost my job (sort of). I am a legal secretary specialising in conveyancing and the small firm I work for has decided that it can't justify/afford 3 secretaries and have combined the jobs into 1 positon. To make things fair they have made all three of us redundant and invited us to apply for the single post. Results on 27th Oct. As I have only worked in this company for 18 months, although for this fee earner for 2 and a half years, I am not entitled to any redundancy pay - so need to find a job quickly. The last working day is the day before my wedding - so has put a bit of a damper on it.
I am now at the mercy of recruitment agents who don't acknowledge applications for jobs, decide that you aren't suitable without actually talking to you or won't give the full details of the job (so you can decide if you are suitable) without you registering with them. I have applied for about 10 jobs over the past two weeks and not heard a thing. Not even an opinion that my CV is crap. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.
One agency I spoke to was of the opinion that if you are a legal secretary the only real difference in the specialist areas are the forms you fill in and the procedures, both of which you can pick up and anyway most of the instructions are given by audio tape. Unfortunately no one else appears to share that opinion and I get the impression that as I am conveyancing there is nothing they can do to help as the housing market is crashing.
Oh well - had a bit of a rant, best get on with the little work that I have got.
Jo
