Sideways move? Perhaps a daft idea? - activities coordinater in a care home? don't pay well but lots of time to make folks lives better and being "arty" would be a real benefit.
Apprenticeships don't always want young entrants, but new entrants. A friend of mine with an arts background took an apprenticeship with the Canals and Rivers Trust in her 30's. Obviously the funding runs out once trained, but she's now working for a local heritage building firm and working on some smart places. Her art speciality was ceramics, so still has the hands on material experience.
Plyphon, I get paid to dick around in the woods, today it mostly involved diggers.
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I get by, by acting a little bit cocky and pretending that I know what I am talking about.
Perfect STW fit then!
Update - we've started looking and she is going for a job with a very big regional company as an apprentice. However the application process is a complete joke, the IT to use doesn't work and they expect you to buy IT stuff just to complete a job. Basically if you don't have a PC at home you couldn't apply for it, very bad I reckon.
Not had any luck anywhere else yet. Nothing at Canal and Rivers unfortunately.
Signed up for Facebook (we don't use it normally) to see whats on there. Seems to be mostly jobs in pubs and restaurants and "earn £500 a day with 1 hours work!!!!!" type "employment". 🙄
If it's about not knowing what to do / getting some job satisfaction it's probably worth taking a step-back and assessing what's important?
I run a coaching programme through my work where employee volunteers support people in a similar position, after career breaks, families etc. A lot of time, people are simply bewildered by the choices, often get confused and frustrated by continual rejection which as probably for jobs they're not suited for anyway.
Via Facebook or similar, see if you can find someone local looking to gain experience as a life-coach and looking for suitable candidates?
Are your skills needed?
http://www.visabureau.com/uk/shortage-occupations-list.aspx#arts
I'm going to re-train as the woman from Flashdance.
First of all, if you have been headhunted or got a job from a personal or business contact with no interview etc I DONT WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT! I hate you people!!
Dam.
I did spend 6 moths applying to anything and everything first with no luck (had one interview in the entire time, to which they forgot I was even coming!).
Via Facebook or similar, see if you can find someone local looking to gain experience as a life-coach and looking for suitable candidates?
I'm not very good on Facebook to be honest as I've only just signed up to use it for the first time for this sort of thing so not sure how to do this.
The last place in the universe I would look for a job is Facebook.
Honestly, I'd rather look under rocks than go to Facebook.
The last place in the universe I would look for a job is Facebook.Honestly, I'd rather look under rocks than go to Facebook.
To be honest I've not been on long and I was of that opinion already...
How about dropping some speculative CV's to craft shops, arty type shops in your area. If you live in Huddersfield, how about looking for opportunities at the newly reopened Piece Hall in Halifax. Her arts and retail experience would be a major plus.
its a bit of an initiative test to weed out people who are really interested, whilst at the same time ensuring you actually have a very basic life skill for virtually any modern job (IT). Did she really need to buy equipment? Could she not have used it at a library, Internet cafe or a friend or family member's house.Update - we've started looking and she is going for a job with a very big regional company as an apprentice. However the application process is a complete joke, the IT to use doesn't work and they expect you to buy IT stuff just to complete a job. Basically if you don't have a PC at home you couldn't apply for it, very bad I reckon.
Try the bus companies , first and arriva have loads of sites in Yorkshire and have many different roles available
T). Did she really need to buy equipment? Could she not have used it at a library, Internet cafe or a friend or family member's house.
Eventually we decided the best way was to do it outside as it's an outside job and it would add interest to the video and make her stand out. Spent ages setting it up to get a great picture and background. All goes ok until halfway through when the app goes all weird and the video recording goes all off focus. No chance to record again and not the fault of the phone as I had full signal/wifi on an iPhone 7. All practice sessions were fine. Total rubbish and we've written it off now. 🙁
Company strikes me as one who is using tech to make them loook good or maybe save them time but the app was total garbage and their website they used was contradictory in what they asked for (said in one bit to have a blank background and in a quiet area then next said you could use an Internet cafe). The app used the phone camera but in a really odd way which throttled the data steam somehow and automatically reduced the video quality down to 1995 standards. I can stream HD with my phone connection so it certainly wasn't my phone.
how about looking for opportunities at the newly reopened Piece Hall in Halifax. Her arts and retail experience would be a major plus.
Nowt there, have checked. Thanks anyway.
its a bit of an initiative test to weed out people who are really interested, whilst at the same time ensuring you actually have a very basic life skill for virtually any modern job (IT).
Job didn't ask for ANY IT skills, couldn't be much further away from needing them. I have loads of IT skills and I couldn't get their stupid application system to work.
