Where are all these jobs?

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SecretVictoria · 20/05/2022 09:43

Every time I open a forum on here, Reddit etc I keep seeing the phrases “It’s an employees market”, “Businesses are crying out for staff”, “Employers have to offer flexible options to keep decent staff”. However, this is not the reality whenever I look!

Are these WFH, flexible jobs just in London? As an example, the company I work for just posted a job that I think I could do and would enjoy, however it says location is head office. For reference, the last two years when they have posted jobs it has said ‘head office’/hybrid/WFH’ but no mention of that now.

I have a job which I like and I love my team but the commute is costing so much in petrol and parking that I’d love to not have to do that, but nor do I relish the opportunity of being squished on a train in rush hour!

I’m in the North West, close to both Manchester and Liverpool.

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sunscreenandsaltwater · 20/05/2022 14:02

My business has around 60 jobs a month, all WFH. It's not going away where I work, nor for many of my friends and family members.

SoggyPaper · 20/05/2022 14:03

InChocolateWeTrust · 20/05/2022 13:57

Finance related. South east. Loads of jobs and wages rising. Highly skilled and 15+ years experience can basically name price and preferred work location!

I’m not convinced that the job market ever looked difficult for highly skilled people with 15+ years in finance.

AlternativePerspective · 20/05/2022 16:17

Userxxxxx · 20/05/2022 10:51

Love it, thanks for the thread just what I've been asking myself.

I've come across so many employers really dragging their feet it makes me wonder. Employers able to schedule an telephone interview time and then not attend themselves. Employers not being clear on what someone's working day looks like is not an Employee's market to me.

Are the job boards posting jobs that actually doesn't exist?? So many times I have come across job adverts that don't match the reality. One time recently I interviewed for customer service rep, then saw the same job advert as internal sales co-ordinator and I think if they don't know what they are looking for lord help us. I had to attend the interview same day in a rush it could not wait, 2 weeks later the company still have had no grace to let me know the outcome.

Weird what people are applying to - one wine company with a role at 21k got 110 applicants, (that's been the highest number my application has been involved in!) whilst other businesses you would think would be more in demand have 1-5 applicants.

I even applied in a kind of desperate measure (as I don't really want to go back to hospitality) to a local supermarket who are said to be desperate for staff - easy way getting a foot in doing a temporary checkout job I thought - no!! notice I still had to do the same assessment as that of an online assistant/general store assistant when I wasn't applying for these roles but a specific one - not a chance.

If you ask me the job boards have a lot to answer for.

Or jobs which turn out to be nothing like the original advert.

I applied fr on e last year, part time, admin type role, was offered an interview. When I received the interview invite they then sent me another person spec and turns out they wanted someone with a degree in social work, management experience, experience working in social care, the role description was clearly for a full time job, and they wanted all this for part time hours and £13k a year.

My guess is that if they’d advertised what they hactually wanted they wouldn’t have got any applicants.

I pulled out of the interview.

NewAccount1223 · 20/05/2022 16:24

I’m an AHP, there are loads of jobs - getting a lot of emails from recruitment consultants. We have lots of vacancies too in our department.
this is true all across the nhs but there is a reason why there are so many infilled vacancies

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