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 arenât being freed up, and require experienced people who canât 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 doesnât really go back to Cambridge.
Trains arenât much better, though more routine, when they arenât 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 treeâs 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 donât want. The bad news is that it doesnât 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, itâs the most populated and best site, but itâs still terrible.
Honourable mentions (not good)
- Totaljobs has a unique feature of a âCommuteâ 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 âsave to favouritesâ
- FindAJob (Gov.UK)⌠where do I start⌠how much taxpayersâ money did this cost? And why is it terrible to use?
- Reed, allegedly a jobsite, pushes Reedâs 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, youâre 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 canât see a way to get there within 50 minutes, then Iâm not bothering. Postcodes are great if you donât want to reveal the location.
- Make it entertaining, engaging, otherwise weâll bring the same energy to interviews as you do to your adverts!
And this is even before we get onto getting those interviews!