MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
well, I'm amazed that I lasted as long as I did but now I'm out and joining the dole.
Unfortunately engineering up here is dead at the moment and there just doesn't seem to be anything anywhere, so I need to try every avenue.
My first question is regarding signing on. I've called the number (I thougth you just went into the job centre!) and I'm now in the system. I have an interview on Thursday for all of this.
Anyhow, one avenue I'm looking down is going freelance.
However, at the moment I have nothing so can sign on as I've been made redundant. But, if I were to go freelance and pick up some work, then I'll obviously sign off. But if said contract is very short term then does this pose problems for me to sign on again?
I have 3 kids, a wife, our home and all the rest which goes with this to support so obviously I need to find a new job pretty fast.
Due to the state of the industries up here I'm considering everything and anything - one is putting myself forward for things like holiday cover, part-time etc but again, I'm worried that I could end up worse off?
I'm a draughtsman/CAD tech who has just completed 3rd year of a civil engineering degree course so well on my way to being a fully qualified engineer - If anyone knows of anywhere who is recruiting in or around Glasgow please let me know.
And any advice on what best to do next is very welcome.
Cheers
Zedsdead - Not sure if we are specifically looking for draughtsman but we are very busy in the DO and could do with some more people www.clydeunion.com in Cathcart. My email address is in my profile if you want direct contacts in the Engineering office and also HR.
got to love this place sometimes.
MACH2010 is on at the NEC until Friday, be a lot of engineering machine type companies there, gotta be worth a trip.
[url] http://www.mach2010.com [/url]
Scottish Water are slowly picking up the pace with their next investment period so the key delivery partners may be resourcing up again
Farrans
Jacobs
Morrison Construction Ltd
George Leslie
Scottish Water Solutions 2/Veolia Water
and some of the other consultants
good luck
will
Albanach, I shall be in touch very soon, thanks! I'm off out to an agency but it sounds like just an introductory interview type meeting. Still, worth a try.
Whathaveisaidnow - cheers, I'll check that out too.
willv - cheers. Funnily enough I've come from the water industry....
When I was in your situation I signed on (if you've not done it before brace yourself, it's one of the most hateful and moral crushing things I've ever had to go through - wait till a 16 year old school leaver looks down their nose at you and demands to know why you've not gone for any of the shelf stacking jobs). Then managed to find the odd contract here and there. Some were only a week, some were a month. Some were just one or two days a week.
Signing on and off was so complicated and was laden with suspicion constantly, every time I returned to sign on I was asked what was wrong, why was I out of work again? God, just thinking about it makes me want to drive a car through the front of the building!!!! ****s!!!!
That's pretty much how I think it will be Samuri. Unfortunately I'm not in a position to be able to not sign on.
Ah well, I'll just have to grin and bear it.
I signed on for a while whilst I had a part time (one day a week) job. It wasn't too complicated, I just had to produce records of what I had earned, and they basically 'topped up' my income to what I would get if out of work and fully on the dole.
It's a miserable experience and very motivating to get something better. They do have a duty to find you work suitable to your qualification, so for an engineering graduate, you don't necessarily have to take shelf stacking.
Zedsdead.... YGM!
Cheers.
Thomo.
My experience of Job Centre Plus varied from some staff who seemed to genuinely care through to the pimply youth who sat there picking his spots whilst I justified myself. Really couldn't be arsed.
I also had the unfortunate experience of Starting Point in St. Helens. If they are looking to save cash, here would be a good place to start.