I was wondering how jobs were advertised in Swanage.
I know there are a number on businesses in Swanage including shops etc but my daughter and I have searched on various employment sites trying to find her a job before going to college in October and it appears that the only jons there are is as a carer,nurse or at Purbeck School. Nothing wrong with those, if thats what you want to do but can any body point us in the right direction to find her work in the field of child care as that is the course she will be doing at Uni or even seasonal work at one of the sites or shop etc.
Any help realy would be appreciated
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Ok first thing can she read and write? then can she follow simple (very) instructions, can she turn up on time? Can she even remember the days she is working? Does she want to only work the hours she wants,does she smoke? does she want to start on 15K a year? Can she be without her mobile phone for more that 5 mins? will she want her friends to come and see her at he place of work? Does she chew gum ?(this one is important)
If she does all the above she is in the mix with 90% of the job seekers in town.
If not she will be head and shoulders above the norm.
Look in the advertiser and just get her out and about with a CV.
Bit harsh!
I think best thing is to approach businesses directly, especially for part-time/seasonal work, and now's the time to be getting in place for summer jobs. For child care work, there's the Purbeck View School (special needs).If she wanted to work at a special school in Weymouth (Westfield), I know there's a mini-bus takes a dozen kids from Swanage every day, might take a worker too.
Check out local directories, in phone guides but also places like Swanage Online and Local Contacts in the list below right.
Good luck.
Child care is such a sweeping term that your question is not easy to answer.
Child care in Swanage is mainly Purbeck View School, see
http://www.cambiangroup.com/page.aspx?pointerid=c34e61b0064a4f7c96431c80bcbbb9f4
JIC
http://tinyurl.com/ygbex58
If that's not the child care you're interested in then wander up to the Youth and Sure Start centres and have a word with them.
Other jobs - final sentence of last post.
There are very few undertakings offering child care in Swanage. There are a number of child-minders and play groups and of course there is now Surestart. It is ancillary to some organisations, for example the residential study centres and of course Purbeck View School but as an activity in its own right it seems to be somewhat beyond the ken of Swanage folk.
The only way to find the jobs is to get your cv out and network throughout Swanage. It is small enough that everyone knows everyone. I agree with the first poster about attitude and presentation. It is (for good or bad) a time when employers, offering jobs, have the upper hand.
Don't forget the JobCentre in Poole. It has probably the best information regarding jobs in this area, as well as advice for job seekers.
Bit harsh!
No its not its perfectly true!
.....sad that 90% of the job seekers in Swanage fit into the mix described by Anonymous. Must say something about the education and parenting as it isnt like that everywhere in the UK....
.....sad that 90% of the job seekers in Swanage fit into the mix described by Anonymous. Must say something about the education and parenting as it isnt like that everywhere in the UK....
It's not like it here either, there are many many young people who are amazing and are doing great things. The negative poster should not make stereotypical assumptions. You are not opening your eyes, I'm afraid your cup is half empty. What are you doing to help our young people?
It's not like it here either, there are many many young people who are amazing and are doing great things. The negative poster should not make stereotypical assumptions. You are not opening your eyes, I'm afraid your cup is half empty. What are you doing to help our young people?
Get a life those quotes were given to me by a bussiness person in town, you know Swanage this town here now! the person told me at a BBQ last weekend so dont go saying things you know nothing about.
I ran the post past them, I'll be honest they did not want them posted, felt they sounded "to Harsh" but they are 100% factual.
When a man with 2 kids can get over £300 perweek working 16 hours or £150+ not working what is the incentive to go to work.
But I stand by the original post.
Those points actually happened!
.....sad that 90% of the job seekers in Swanage fit into the mix described by Anonymous. Must say something about the education and parenting as it isnt like that everywhere in the UK....
Well I'm a Business man in Swanage and generally I think we have great young people in town. Might i suggest you spend a week in a nice inner city sink estate and see if that changes your mean spirited, Daily Mail, moaning mind. I just because your friends say something, does not mean it's true
A lot of this 'problem' is about values.
"When a man with 2 kids can get over £300 perweek working 16 hours or £150+ not working what is the incentive to go to work."
That sentence is just bizarre!
If the person who posted that can't understand that by working 2 days a week and earning twice the money it then leaves the man - not a woman! - in a position to spend some quality time with his kids, well ........
Well I'm a Business man in Swanage and generally I think we have great young people in town. Might i suggest you spend a week in a nice inner city sink estate and see if that changes your mean spirited, Daily Mail, moaning mind. I just because your friends say something, does not mean it's true
Dont ever call me a liar! I dont care if your a bussiness man or not those things happened in SWANAGE within the last 2 weeks ok, I have many witnesess to say they did. I saw some of the paper work which had been filled out, I saw the forms that had been filled in.
I was told some of the answers given to the questions set. The standard of the applicants for two jobs was low, 28 people applied, only two were good enough, no s8d it only two were intilligent enough, and one of those is proving to be a bloody nightmare, I would give you some examples of their rank stupudity but I wont, it might enlighten you to much.
I never said ALL youngsters were bad I just gave a FACTUAL example of those that had applied to a job advert, 2 out of 28 is about 10%? so ergo my figures are correct.
To be honest your bussines must have very poor standards if you think all is rosy in the garden.
P.S we dont live in a inner city sink estate do we we live here so ergo the children should not be so deprived you cant have both sides of the arguement.
PPS would you like me to go and see the bussines concerned and get the contact details of those people, I could forward them on if you are offering employment, go on give a chance pay them the wage see how it goes.
If the person who posted that can't understand that by working 2 days a week and earning twice the money it then leaves the man - not a woman! - in a position to spend some quality time with his kids, well ........
Does that not increase the burden on the tax payer then?
Ask your grandparents if that is a way to run a working life?
Is it fair on the people who do work 40 hrs per week?
Imagine this a guy works in a local factory 40 hrs takes home 280 per week sees his neighbour doing 16 hrs a week, down the pub on the beach, watching the cricket while he is sweating his £££££ off, Is that fair? Is that just? is that sending a good signal to the youth of today? NO its not is it? back to you. Quality time my A$$$.
"When a man with 2 kids can get over £300 perweek working 16 hours or £150+ not working what is the incentive to go to work."
Perhaps wages high enough not to have to rely on state top-ups, i.e. a lot more than the minimum wage would do the trick.
I know its a cliche but if you pay peanuts you end up employing monkeys.
The exception was when we had those east europeans a few years ago. There were a variety of people with professional and postgraduate qualifications doing the most hum-drum jobs round Swanage. I don't think Swanage has ever had so many lawyers and international bankers before or since although we have some remarkably erudite cab drivers. Perhaps if you make a PhD the minimum qualification you will get a better field of applicants. Seriously though there used to be a small chain of second hand record shops in London that would not have anyone behind the counter with less than a 2.1 so this approach can work.
Dont worry too much about all these people working 16 hours per week and then being subsidised by those 'foolish' enough to do a full time job. This is a little bit of madness that the next government will have to sort out in order to help turn around the UK finances. The benefit culture holiday is coming to an end....
Somebody is suffering from over exposure to the Daily Mail or one of its siblings. Its all bluster. Don't you realise that?
No - all they are trying to do is scare us into voting Labour.
The benefit culture will remain. The British people are too reliant on it to go cold turkey. The government is the largest employer in Britain. It needs to maintain the status quo to keep the jobs going and to remain in power.
1.50 to 2.00 pound per litre petrol is on well on the way. All due to more duty.
As may be a later start to future pensions.
As may be a rise in VAT to 20% at some point.
Cameron will change little in the way of benefit culture and taxation. He is no Maggie (whether you view this as good, or bad). He will raise taxes to attempt to balance the books.
One suggestion - now that a reduction in nukes has been signed, why not scrap the plans to modernize Trident? And phase out the whole nuclear arms business? And stop getting involved in unwinable wars? Some money will be saved.
Employment in Swanage.
Oxymoron??
"1.50 to 2.00 pound per litre petrol is on well on the way. All due to more duty."
Factually incorrect. A large proportion is due to sterling effectively devalueing which is good for exports bu as oil is priced in dollars makes it dearer.
"And stop getting involved in unwinable wars?"
An intersting idea. How do you decide whether a war is winnable when you start it? I do accept that previous campaigns in Iraq (Mesopotamia) and Afghanistan) have some to a sticky and inglorious end. What would your advice have been to HMG in 1939 I wonder.Declaring war on a major military power seems to be a lot more inadvisable than supporting a super-power's invasion of of a place with nothing more than assorted warlords and militias,
So, we've now gone from how to get a job, to how to predict the winners in a war!
Don't 'spose we could solve Nuclear Fusion while we're here!
You use the PPP (Purbeck Particle Projector) to accelerate some second home owners to 99.99999999% of the speed of light and bang them into the Mowlem.
Ye Gods young wo/man, you're a genius!
I'd like to nominate you as the 1st Purbeck Laureate of CERN-ness.
Hope you don't mind!
A Purbeck Genius??
Now THAT is truly an oxymoron.
To the previous poster back a few, the devaluation of the pound is already factored into my claim that duty will be responsible for the rise in petrol prices, as well as the price of a barrel. The pound will not fall below its present point of $1.50. I reckon its proper place is about $1.65-1.80.
Against the euro - who knows what the pound will do.
If the exchange rate is so good for exports, then why is the balance of trade so out of whack???? It will be even worse if the pound returns to $2.00 or more.
Yes, I believe one should be prudent over choosing to go to war. Any jingoistic notions I may have had were knocked out of me when Blair sucked up to Bush and dragged us into Iraq. I am too young to know what I would have done in 1939, but my dad was a BofB pilot for the RAF from the start, so I think it is fair to say I think we were right to go into that one. Any war since then has been not worth the effort - but I still praise our boys for what they do, and did. The politicians who took us into these adventures - no praise for them.
I see Blair is now worth in excess of 60 million and employs a staff of 160. Having blood on your hands pays well, clearly, but even his Catholic conversion won't spare him judgment in the history books or in the Hereafter.
"Hey Tony, how's that Middle East peace envoy job working out for you?"!!!!
Blair + Middle East Peace Envoy = the 'Ultimate (Oxy)moron'.
Rather off topic, but why has Wilcox and Cook moved into an impossibly hard to find location down Commercial? The old location was far better. I bet Dave Corbin is pleased!
"Duty will be responsible for the rise in petrol prices."
You could be right. An annual increase at a fixed percentage above the inflation rate was introduced in 1993 (by guess who's government). It was scrapped by Labour in 2000. In this period petrol here went from being about the cheapest in Europe to being the dearest. Do you think Cameron is planning to revert to his party's old policy which would push it up to 1.50 or 2 pounds in a few years?
Readers of these exchanges may be struck from time to time that the views expressed by some residents appear to come from a bygone age e.g., when the young did what they are told. I can now reveal that this is not the flight of fancy you may think it was. Its all down to PMT (Purbeck Millennium Transporter).
In a novel approach to time travel Swanage scientists have constructed a device which brings people from the past to us rather than taking time explorers back. The aim, as the name suggests it to reach back a thousand years. So far several centuries have been achieved. Due to the low level of funding for the work those brought into the present live in the community ss there is no way of sending them back, and indeed many have been surprisingly successful.
They are of course sworn to secrecy but are permitted to emphasise their "localness" as a coded means of communicating with one another and as a means of alleviating the psychological future shock that many experience. It is indeed this aspect that limits the experiment. Imagine the effect on a speaker of anglo-saxon old english having to deal with modern life.
hmm, Swanage has a "..community ss..."
And it's where the 'locals' live!
Or was that Freudian?
Or mebbie an attack of the bananafinger?
Or are you a 5th columnist and the webbing got in the way?
Answers on a postcode to PO Box 3rd Reich
The first time I attended a Town Council meeting I thought I was in some sort of time warp! I thought Swanage attitudes resembled those fabled Dutchy of Fenwick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9C-gt4TpA
After sitting through motion and petition and questions from the public being rebuffed by the Mayor, I was reminded of yet another great clip from the past:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0
Two greats - Peter Sellers and Groucho Marx!
The clip from "The Mouse that Roared" was appropriate in view of the discussion on here about starting wars you can't win as the whole plot is about doing just that. Swanage today - the world tomorrow?
I searched for a clip showing the Mayor of Toytown but no luck so far.
I recently watched a comedy series, that whilst a bit patchy did have some fantastic laughs in it.
it dealt with topics such as:
families watching too much TV
the fecklessness of youth
the incompetence of gov't
one episode actually contained the phrase 'it's bureaucracy gone mad!'
The series - Hancocks half hour
The late 1950's - plus ca change....
Tony Hancock went to school in Swanage - Durlston Court, I believe.
I feel like complaing about 12.33!
Having just 'wasted' a couple of hours laughing my head off watching some really funny stuff on Youtube I found these.
How could I have forgotten about Marty Feldman?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPAVm8Gl6M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUdrJ6RPeA
They just work on so many different levels.
Genius.
RIP.
Ah, the great danger of Youtube! You can lose many hours there!
I am glad Marty F brought you a chuckle.
Thank you, I'm off to have a look for the 'At last the 1948 show' now.
Beware - sides a hurting syndrome awaits.
I think I came across one of these time travelers. A few days ago I overheard a snippet of conversation in which a lady who was appeared to be in her 60s was grumbling about the lack of discipline and self discipline demonstrated by the young. She would have been young herself in the swinging 60s which was a decade not exactly remembered for great manifestations of self discipline by the young so she can only have come from an earlier time. How many more are there in our midst?
Ummmmmmmm.............one helluva lot??
A little more information about the PMT time machine leaked out over a pint or two with my contact. It seems it is kept and used in the Town Hall. In the latter part of council meetings, known as part 2 when the press and public have been shown the door and we thought they were discussing the juicy stuff, it turns out that the device is wheeled out and operated. Bringing someone into the Victorian splendour of the chamber is thought to be less of a shock than more modern surroundings.
This goes a long way towards explaining the secrecy that enshrouds the doings of our town council. Over the years a semi-masonic ritual has grown up around the operation of the device which impresses the new arrivals from the past no end and makes the councillors feel very important.
SCANDAL.
You mean that they allow the press in?
Why hasn't this been reported on?
The press usually seem to have more pressing engagements.
Can they press my laundry??
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