January for the online recruitment world is always a very busy time.
In our early days at Jobsite (1995) we formed all sorts of different opinions as to why the traffic on our websites gets an enormous boost at the start of the year. These were the days when we were using 9.6k modems and the idea of a 28.8k connection just didn’t exist.

Talking about modems, I had the pleasure of writing the software which ran the Iron Maiden fan club for the sanctuary group back in pre-www days. I remember my first genuine use for a modem was to connect to Compuserve and send a tiny little bug fix to the guy who ran the system there. The modem ran at about 300 baud and the file upload took all night long!! Well it saved a trip to London and got the fix to the customer in record time. They were the days…

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I am 20 years old and tired of working in a retail job when I know I can be of more use and get greater satisfaction doing practical work.
I have started a plumbing course which I am enjoying, and currently looking for an apprenticeship.
Would it be a good idea to try getting a labouring job on a construction site and try to work my way up from there?

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I am having difficulty finding a job, and would like some help or advice.
After been made redundant from my last job, which I had for the past 15 years, I have been actively searching for a new position.
I have contacted and registred with quite a few agency and applied for vacancies via my jobsite search, but nothing has turned up. In my last job I was a purchase ledger supervisor and always worked in accounts. I can see they are few vacancies in purchase ledger, but no one seem to be interested in me.
My problem is that I am 56 years old, and although nobody has said, this is the problem, I thnk they are just been polite.
This is very much the problem, and no matter how good my references are, or how good my C.V. is, I am not going to find work.
I have also registered with a couple of agency which deal with mature applicants, but I am sorry to say that they have been the worse soo far. All I get told is that they have nothing for me. My C.V. gets a lot of praises, but that is all.
I have managed to find a temporay job, which will end quite soon, and I despair to how I am going to cope not having a job, with bills and morgage to pay for the next 9 years.
I would appreciate any advice or contact numbers, where I can get help regarding this problem.
Thank You,
Toni

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I’ve made the very big mistake of leaving a job I enjoyed working with a great team of people for 6 years to move to a more senior role in a supposed larger environment and a more challegening IT role as Helpdesk manager and to be honest I’ve never been so under challenged, undervalued or unhappy in my life. The role it’s self is nothing like the one I was sold at the interview and is taking me away from the carrer path I was on. I’ve spoke with my boss about it but he’s not interested as he blames a change in the business model and it’s not his fault but that doesn’t really help me.
After being here only 4 months I’ve had 4 interviews 1 in the last week in which i’m still waiting to hear from I’ve even tried going back to my old job was split between 2 people and I can’t go back.
I am in a fulll time role but I’m now considering contracting or lower end tech support jobs dropping 8k a year just to get out of this role.
Please help if anyone has any advice on what to do or about contracting it would be most appreciated.

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I am 23 years old and following A levels trained to be a midwife receiving a BSc (Hons) Midwifery studies at 2:1. I got a job straight away and practiced for around 18mths before deciding that I was not happy and wanted to change career path.

I have spent the last year doing various temping jobs, including outbound sales, managing a small cafe, customer service, bar work etc. I have considered training again, applying for graduate schemes, moving away to different areas…but don’t actually know.

Like many people i am probably in search for the ‘perfect job’, something that probably doesn’t even exist. But for the moment I at least could do with earning some money and getting some worth while experience.

Any suggestions?

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