why is it so difficult to get good staff?

[fankino04]

As title states, why when there is apparently so much unemployment is it so difficult to get good staff these days? I am opening a non horsey shop in newbury and can't seem to find any hard working honest people who want a job. Have things really got so bad in this country that people would rather be on benefits than work for a living? Honestly where is the pride?
Sorry for rant but needed to let off steam after a candidate told me she had only come for an interview coz the job center made her!!

 

[noodle_]

because its so easy to stay on the dole when things get tough..........!

Ive worked since I was 16 (part time in education) ive never not been in work except for 3 weeks.... ive been brought up to work for what you want...hence why i pay for my horse/car etc myself

People have a lot less pride nowadays and happy to accept handouts....!

 

[Silent Knight]

Last year I was offering 8 placements for various jobs on my yard through the future jobs fund, full training to be given on the job.

Over 3 months I sat through 3 days of jobs fairs. After selecting candidates on each day, a total of 24 people, only 5 turned up for the job.

They turn up to interveiws with no intention of working. It is a sad fact that many people are happy to scrounge benifits as a lifestyle.

 

[fankino04]

Honestly though I am busy enough with all the pre opening hassle without having idiots waste my time interviewing them for jobs they have no wish to do!

 

[blood_magik]

I would kill for a different job - I just don't seem to have the experience that enployers want

good luck with your new shop

 

[GS0188]

I just wish i lived closer, i would do anything for a job right now and the company who offered me a job a few months ago are making it a very slow process from interview time to the actual starting time

 

[SeasonalSituation]

I've been trying for the last few months, willing to move anywhere in the country. So far got nowhere

 

[Jenni_]

What a Blimmin shame.

I've worked since I was 14 and I lost my last job through injury when I was 19 - the 3 months I was on the dole were the most embarrassing of my life. Having to go in amongst all those who didn't actually want to look for a job. There was one other lady like me at my 'slot'

Thank god I found a job! Shame your not opening one in Edinburgh - I work full time and have a part time job and teach, I'm sure I coulda helped you out

 

[fankino04]

Ok clearly there are some people who want to work so is it that they only want a certain type of job and that's not retail or am I just being unlucky with the applicants I have had?

 

[Jake10]

The place I used to work at hired a lad at the same time they hired me. He misplaced his work clothes so turned up in a track suit (luckily we were on the evening team so there were no customers). He only turned up for 3 shifts before disappearing, he might as well not have bothered turning up for those 3 shifts as he did no work.

The company actually turned down people who wanted a job so he could have it

 

[SamanthaUK]

Many people want jobs and many people who have jobs work hard!!

At 15, I've had two jobs. One I got when I was 13 (pot washing). I worked every saturday and days in school holidays, only getting payed £3.63 an hour. I must admit however that I hated pot washing and I quit a few months after I turned 14. But when I quit my job I was straight out and looking for a new job. Within 6 weeks, I'd started a new job as a waitress in a pub getting paid £5 an hour! Not alot but for a teenager, still at school, it's good! And I've had that for just over a year now! And i'm definately going to stick at it until i've finished school and college and then i'll get a full time job! Either there are somewhere else.

I agree that some people do take the p*ss when it comes to job hunting and getting a job but I also know that many people are looking for jobs.
Don't waste time interviewing people who won't want your job or will take the mic, How about advertising for teenagers? Theres loads of them unemployed and I'm sure they'll work for you!

Sorry to part-rant. Its just that loads of people judge others when they don't know their situation.

Good luck with your new shop!

 

[midi]

How unfair I can assure you there ARE people that are honest and hardworking who would kill for a job at the moment.
AKA ME.

I've been unable to get anything since I've left college over a year now, I'm 20 turning 21 and I've been applying to everything and anything and currently volunteering at a charity shop to keep me sane and moral up.
I've never had a paid job and I can assure it's not because I'm lazy or that I'd rather be on the dole because trust me I absolutely loathe being associated with it and going there.

Slightly horrified at the girl that you mentioned coming in because " jsa told her too" - I don't even hear back from half of the places I apply too and when I do get a interview I do my best as possible to make best impressions but unfortunately time again and again I'm being told that they have found someone with "slightly more experiance".

Sorry for ranting but I do not understand how one gains more experiance if volunteer work doesn't seem to count and employers won't give those with no work history a chance.
Fed up of hearing that people on JSA are obv just too lazy to find work, when it really isn't always the case.

goodluck I hope you have more suitable people coming in and not just layabouts.

 

[Hollycatt]

I hope you find someone good soon. I can see both sides of it though. I get told I am overqualified when I apply for jobs - with a law degree and half a vet med degree. And yes, once I save enough money I will try and finish my vet degree - but for the 2 years you have me I would work damm hard.

Maybe you need to look at a different type of applicant. The ones that have good degrees and are overqualified need jobs like everyone else and if they are happy won't necessarily leave!

 

[fankino04]

Trust me I haven't ruled anyone out, am not interested in experience just purely personality and I have just had do few applicants and even less good ones,

 

[NeilM]

I don't even hear back from half of the places I apply too and when I do get a interview I do my best as possible to make best impressions but unfortunately time again and again I'm being told that they have found someone with "slightly more experiance".

I'm afraid this is not a new phenomenon, I had exactly the same thing when I left college.

I remember writing to 42 different companies, and not hearing back from most of them. In the end I got an interview through word of mouth and got the job.

This was in 1978!

 

[midi]

yes I think especially at the moment to get a job you need contacts or you have little chance!

 

[Marymary]

I have had one delightful person who 'lived in' leave 2 weeks ago after I had 'words' with her as she was making loan and credit card applications using of course our address which I was not happy about and knew nothing about until I saw it on her FB status....today our phone bill came for the landline.....how nice of her to have been ringing 09 telephone numbers she ran up a £40 charge in two telephone calls upon googling the telephone number its for a 'payday' loan company ...upon contacting her re the phone bill I have been told in no uncertain terms where to stick it!! She had worked for a very well known top showing yard previously to coming to my smaller yard and came highly recomended .

She is 19 , didnt get up in the morning, if I went out or was teaching she would be back in the house , she helped herself to whatever she felt like out of the cupboards without asking, had no regards to the value of equipment and our property ....saddles dumped on the concrete, headcollars thrown on the floor not hung up, equissage dumped on tackroom floor not on its rack ...I could go on and on ..has put me totally off replacing her would rather get up at 4am to get everything done myself.

 

[fankino04]

Following on from that comment of needing contacts to get a job if anyone knows anyone in the newbury area who wants to work please point them in my direction.