Recruitment agencies
January 26th, 2011
https://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/recruitment-consultant
alternageek
26 January 2011 9:59AM
I would just like to know why agencies post jobs that don’t exist so people will feed them their CV? – I’ve had this happen to me numerous times since I first moved to the UK and makes job hunting so depressing. I actually stayed in a job that was making me ill, because it was better than having to weed through fake ads and being disappointed that the job never existed.
Also how come when you tell an agency I don’t want to do X, Y & Z – that’s all they offer you? Or they send you on interviews saying the role is what you want, but when you get there, its actually for the opposite of what you’re looking for.
I’m about to go back into the job market (Customer Admin/Service background) and totally petrified about finding real work and going on interviews where I’m not wasting anyone’s time.
The most shocking graph on housing I have ever seen
January 26th, 2011
This article started off as a comment on the need for prefab homes as a solution to the housing crisis brought about by the reluctance of Governments since 1979 to build council housing. In the process of reading the article I came across the graph below which shows the true state of housing for those who cannot afford to buy their own, and it is truly shocking.
Of course the idea of prefabs has been superceded now by Levitt Bernstein and their Beds in Sheds. https://www.singleaspect.org.uk/?p=11852 let’s hope somebody starts building proper housing before too long.