The Job market sucks and getting worse.
In a small town with hardly any transport, where majority of the population is 50+ years old, it sucks to find a job. The real simple ones all the school leavers aim for to afford to drive with aren’t being freed up, and require experienced people who can’t get the experience to do, all for the lowest wage.
Local Infrastructure screwing you before you even start the day.
We get 2 buses to Cambridge a day, 1st arrives at 6am, 2n around 7pm and doesn’t really go back to Cambridge.
Trains aren’t much better, though more routine, when they aren’t delayed for 4 hours or lost.
The cycle infrastructure, like wow… for a county what is almost all about cycling we have a 4 foot length of cycle way in one town, with cars and tree’s parked in the longer ones.
Job sites need to improve, too.
Lets be honest, they are all terrible.
Indeed, currently leading.
Indeed has lots of filtering options so you can refine results down from companies/locations you don’t want. The bad news is that it doesn’t work past a certain number of entries.
Indeed also has some tools on the employer side to indicate what skills/qualifications the job requires, again, no one sets their adverts up properly.
Currently, it’s the most populated and best site, but it’s still terrible.
Honourable mentions (not good)
- Totaljobs has a unique feature of a ‘Commute’ calculator, but its location services and lack of jobs breaks it.
- CV-library is probably the 2nd best, but very basic, with the only option on jobs being ‘save to favourites’
- FindAJob (Gov.UK)… where do I start… how much taxpayers’ money did this cost? And why is it terrible to use?
- Reed, allegedly a jobsite, pushes Reed’s courses as jobs. Avoid.
- Breakroom.cc is actually easy and fun to use, but it lacks features like proper filters and distances.
- glassdoor is more leaning towards high volume jobs in its own database of connections, a bit like Linkedin without the bullshit.
- Linkedin is bloated and useless.
Employers, you’re to blame too!
Though I name you, You are busy of course.
But really, do these:
- List the skills required properly, in clear and be bold.
- Define what you want.
- Are you willing to train? some of us are very quick learners when we know what people want.
- Define locations properly. Cambridgeshire is big, and if I can’t see a way to get there within 50 minutes, then I’m not bothering. Postcodes are great if you don’t want to reveal the location.
- Make it entertaining, engaging, otherwise we’ll bring the same energy to interviews as you do to your adverts!
And this is even before we get onto getting those interviews!