Guest 852- Registered: 3 Jan 2013
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Is anyone aware of any job vacancies around Dover? Office work, manual work, any hours any shifts, anything that will stop me pulling my hair out trying to find work!
Thanks in advance!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Contact Mike Bailey of JM Recruitment on 01795 519000
He has opportunities all over Kent.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good luck phil.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mr Barnes I do feel sorry for yourself and 1000s like you,it helps if you have a car there is a few jobs still out there for car owners,or van owners,would going to night school help in anyway to get more skills under your belt. Just try thinking outside the box,and having ago ,some have gone for working for themselfs on this very forum, just maybe they can help.as the weather and summer weeks get near ,it will help you in job hunting,without knowing what you can do or not do .it is very hard to point you in anyway. Are you free to work away from Dover easy if you are not a family man.I had a wife and family when I done it ,but it came at a very big cost and I do not mean in cash.But which ever way you go all the best and hope you get what you are looking for,There might just be somone looking in who can help,you never know.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Phil.
JM Recruitment and many other agencies seem to have many more jobs on their books, than even job centres themselves have.
Some listed below.
Care Recruitment Consultant- Call Centre Staff- Bar Staff- Waiting Staff- Recycling Operatives- Class I dray drivers and many more.
I found it very easy finding these seemingly available jobs via these agencies but after spending over an hour scouring the internet, I have not been able to find one vacancy outside of an agency.
Having worked for an agency and never wanting to work for another, it seems there would be very few option's out there for me.
I certainly don't find this aspirational.
I wish you the best of luck though Phil, I do not know your age but you could try:-
Jason Rose
Skills Factory
Miners Way Business Park
Aylesham
Kent
CT33AW
01304 849050
If I hear of something else I will certainly pass it on.
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Keith Sansum1
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good luck
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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GaryC - many employers simply will not even bother to inform JobCentres about vacancies and use private agencies, paid for advertising and word of mouth to find recruits. In all my time employing people in various guises I have never even considered advertising in a JobCente though I have always been a 'small employer' of course.
Going via a private agency does not necessarily mean working for that agency either. In some case it does, certainly, but often agencies will be placing employees direct with companies and sometimes agencies will filter potential employees offering a full interview process service for employers who do not have specialist HR departments.
Also some employers will be 'testing' someone while employed by an agency before deciding to offer a job direct themselves, My sons both found employment that way, agencies first before the companies with whom they were placed offered them direct employment.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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BarryW.
I have worked for an agency and I know how they work.
As I said in my post, not my choice of employment, preferring to find my own direct.
However, each to their own, which is why I informed Phil of the many seemingly available prospects via agencies on the internet.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Each to their own, yes agreed Gary. You know how the agency you worked for worked, not all operate an identical business model. I know one from a professional angle and two from how family got on working for them. So I have direct knowledge of three of them. In the case of my sons who each worked for different agencies, in both cases, they helped set them up in good long term jobs... I would recommend anyone to use an agency for a number of reasons, 1/, a better chance of getting employment than a JobCentre, 2/ any work is better than no work, 3/ perhaps even more likely to get a better job via an agency from a company willing to pay a fee to obtain quality staff than from the 'free' JobCentre service and finally 4/ it is up to the individual to make the most of any opportunity provided by an agency and to make it work for them.
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Phil is Paul B
arnes your father
beer the food of the gods
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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There also agencies that take a cut of the wage
so where as the employee gets just above the minimum wage(sometimes on the minimum wage) the agency creams off a lot of the dosh
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Guest 852- Registered: 3 Jan 2013
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guzzler wrote:Phil is Paul B
arnes your father
Yes he is. Although there is more than one Paul Barnes in the area, I believe..
Guest 852- Registered: 3 Jan 2013
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Thanks for everyone's advice. Im trying just about every different way to find something, and thought a quick post on here would be a good idea, just because I know from lurking that you're all a very helpful bunch!
Ive been in contact with a lot of the agencies in Dover, and also JM Recruitment. There just seems to be about 200 people for every one vacancy at the moment!
Im 28yo and dont drive at the moment, so that is usually a bit of a problem with quite a few places, which is fair enough.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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Theres never much in the local papers now.There used to be 4-5 pages of jobs and now only just a page.Have you ever considered having a go at market trading,maybe taking a stall at the new Dover market.I,m considering having a go myself till my work picks up again,only problem is knowing what to sell.
Guest 859- Registered: 13 Jan 2013
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Do as ive done, the company i worked for manufacturing airline seating, and important equipment for the uk military closed, so i immediatly registered on a training course, due to start for 2 weeks in sittingbourne on the 28th, a little more experience must help in a job market, that to be quite frank is non exhistant unless your a teacher, carer or management
PAUL SWINERD
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I would like to open a plant and tree nursery, with an attached farm for intensive crop-growing.
This would also create employment as some hands would be needed.
Funding would be necessary to start the project, to be repaid over a 5-7 year period.
That's where the project ends.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
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Put a business case together & talk to KCC to apply for a regional growth fund grant/loan.
I suppose you already have a site located and it is available, some risk funding of your own & a bank/sponsor to match fund you grant application, then you might be on to a entrepreneurial future Alex.
Watty
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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There is some land available here and there, Paul.
I would definitely want to employ someone with past experience to help combine ideas and methods so as to get it right from the start, and definitely it would create some local employment, possibly on a part-time basis.
Such a business here in Kent would have the likelihood to expand once an established market is set up, thus creating more local employment, including full-time.
A grant would be ideal, a match-funded loan would help out. Admittedly my current painting and decorating business does not have great funds to offer.
I would be looking at bio-crops, ie not treated with chemicals.
Vegetables would bring in a short-term revenue, fruit and berries would take about five years before they bring in a return, when the trees-bushes are established.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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I see them advertising at Folkston bus station for drivers Training given .