gas jobs

[izzy83]

hey all, I live in newcastle am really finding it hard getting a job as i am newly qualified gas engineer, don't no why?....is it because of my experience or anything else. I have sent alot of CV,s to companies and agencies but no success. Hopefully something will turn up,

any advice would be grateful...thanx

 

[mickyg]

how did you qualify?

 

[Agile]

is it because of my experience

I would hope that its as a result of your LACK of experience.

Presumably you thought that if you took a short course and gained your ACS then you could step into any job? The reality is that all the ACS does is to confirm that you can work with gas SAFELY.

There is nothing in the ACS that measures or even requires any experience of diagnosing boiler faults or even understanding how boilers work!

But I gather that P H Jones is looking for 100 more engineers and can only pay salaries suitable for monkeys so perhaps you have a chance there?

 

[nickso]

oh dear, is agile waxing about qualifications he doesn't hold again? naughty glazier.

 

[DP]

Tony When you CCed after leaving BBC, did you not start from the same sarting block as the OP?

OP, like any proffession, one needs to work hard, 'sell' quality of service that is better than most in the field (feedback from customers tells you this not what you think).

Join combustion chamber and help may be got there.

 

[namsag]

OP Ignore Agile he is the forum village idiot and gets worse at night because by the looks of his posts he has a drink or drug problem that gives him delusions of grandeur and he believes his is one of the top 100 engineers in the country.
I blame care in the community it was never going to work for all.


Simple answer is the ar#e has fell out of the industry and people are not spending money .So installation work has fallen away and building sites are still dead so lots of site plumbers/gasmen out there in the normal domestic market.
Add to that the hype over the past 5 years about the amount of money to be made in this trade and there is an awful lot of inexperienced career change guys out there chasing work they are not really able to do.
So companies now can dictate hours and wages and be more picky who they take on.
Example 2 years ago BG would start a trainee on around 14k a year now its 5k and they have to pay the privilege of 16k for the training they will receive.



Have a look on the centrica web site at present they have took the metering install contract back from transco/onstream and are recruiting.

The money is not brilliant to start with but once your in there, there will always be the possibilty of being transfered and trained to being an actual engineer on proper money

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Well judging by the prices your always harping on about that you will do a job for, what does that make you ?

As Gasbag said, the arsse has fallen out of the market, plus all the money the media said we were getting paid is a crock of ****e anyway, don't hold your breath for a job in this dead on it's feet industry, and come to that, don't hold your breath for anything as this cuunttry is just dead on it's feet period....

 

[bengasman]

hey all, I live in newcastle am really finding it hard getting a job as i am newly qualified gas engineer, don't no why?....

Could have something to do with the fact that we are in the worst recession in living memory with over 10,000,000 out of work.

I have sent alot of CV,s to companies and agencies but no success.

The only less effective way of getting a job than sending cv's, is posting them online.
Your best chance to land a job, is to personally go to companies ( preferably when "the boss" is there ) and ask if they can use somebody. Throw the cv away; you are newly qualified and nobody is interested in where you went to school or what you did last year, unless you are a category 2 entrant.

 

[corgiman]

10 MILLION unemployed????????????

holy crap

I thought it was only 2.5 million

bloody hell

 

[Agile]

The Government are at pains to keep the unemployment figures as low as possible. Their narrow definition keeps this figure at 2.51 M.

There are only 70% of 16-64 y.o.s employed and thats 29.3M which leaves 12.5 M economically inactive.

Of those 12.5M some are students, nursing mothers or genuinely sick to the point that they really cannot do any job. It also includes those who choose not to work and those who retired early.

So the reality is that there are about 9.9M who would work if a suitable job was available although only a quarter are registered as unemployed and this figure officially seems to only include those who applied for a job within the last four weeks as the Job Centre expects.

I am sure many of you will know people who are in the 9.9M but cannot find any suitable job or will only work for a better paid job so dont work at all.

Tony

 

[misterdubya]

I am sure many of you will know people who are in the 9.9M but cannot find any suitable job or will only work for a better paid job so dont work at all

Some are in the GD forum. [/quote]