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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. StJabbo1

    StJabbo1 Well-Known Member

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    Happy hangover
     
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    Yeah me too. Mines from Essex!
     
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    An Essexipina?
     
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    Bet getting a job in UK is difficult. My wife has been applying since January. Must have applied for 100s online or sent CVs to local companies. I think we have had 4 replies expressing interest and I think 2 of these were scammers. The jobs did not exist. Even taken to photo copying and distributing CVs by car. No one replies although my wife has 22 years experience of admin in FM and construction.
     
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    Nah, pure breed east end girl & with a character to match. Hammer also <doh>
     
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    Che’s Godlike Thighs Well-Known Member

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    This was me for a few years, then along came Covid, followed by a wife and baby.

    But it was a blast while it lasted. Definitely go for it if you get the chance.
     
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  7. StJabbo1

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    Good news from the ERS.
    https://electoral-reform.org.uk/gov...ote-system-elections-is-a-big-win-for-voters/
    "The government has announced in its English Devolution & Community Empowerment Bill that it will be scrapping First Past the Post (FPTP) for mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections and reinstating the more representative Supplementary Vote (SV) system.
    Since the first elected mayors were created in 2000, and then PCCs in 2012, the elections were held under SV, which gives voters a first and second preference vote. Under the system, if no candidate secures more than 50% of the vote on first preferences, all but the top two candidates are eliminated and their second preferences distributed to the remaining two candidates. The candidate with the most votes once the second preferences have been counted wins.

    The system ensures that the votes of more people count towards the result and candidates secure office with broader backing from their community."
     
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    No hangover ;) drank water. Slept it off between 4pm ish and 9pm? can't remember. lol
     
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    Well yeah, but there is a downside :bandit:
     
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  10. Archers Road

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    The trouble with applying for jobs online, is that most of the jobs which come up on a Google search are clickbait to get you onto sites which rely on advertising revenue. So most of those jobs don’t exist, or if they do they’re already filled. Every interview I had when I was between jobs a few years ago, came from applying to potential employers directly
     
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    Even in the days of the local newspaper, 10-20 years ago before they all went to the wall, there would be 4 pages of job adverts and virtually all of them were this stupid practice of people reapplying for their own jobs so they were also advertised.......and of course the incumbent got the non existent vacancy. Nearly all jobs in state organisations (council, hospitals, police etc.)
     
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  12. thereisonlyoneno7

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    Yep I work for a large Bank and all new jobs are advertised internally and externally, with internal candidates prioritised. They will always promote/move sideways internally rather than externally.
     
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    I wasn't meaning new jobs. All companies will look internally in terms of a new job if the person is suitable because they already know the company etc. I was meaning when the papers were full of not new jobs where every year people had to reapply for the jobs they were already in and those jobs filled the back pages of the locals even though they weren't actually vacancies at all.
     
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