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Casual Labour - 1man1desk - 20th March 2006
There was an archaeology job agency set up a few years ago. We tried to get some staff through them, but they never produced anyone who came even close to meeting the spec we had given them, and they disappeared about a month after our first contact with them.
Never tried using the BAJR CV page, although we always advertise on BAJR.
1man1desk
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Casual Labour - BAJR Host - 22nd March 2006
Now I have been contacted by a Natelie Kershaw.. who is setting up a recruitment agency.. called archpeople
http://www.archpeople.com/
interesting... but I need convinced that it can work ... you never know
Another day another WSI?
Casual Labour - the invisible man - 22nd March 2006
Dammit, she's pinched ny idea!
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
Casual Labour - drpeterwardle - 22nd March 2006
David,
have you looked at the http://www.archpeople.com site
I hope the photograph is not showing what I think it is showing.
Peter
Casual Labour - BAJR Host - 22nd March 2006
tell me [:0]
Another day another WSI?
Casual Labour - tom wilson - 23rd March 2006
Hello All,
I have looked into this extensively, and had the whole thing set up and ready to run last year, but like Mr Hosty I am still not convinced that it will work out in the way we would all like it to.
The attraction is that it might produce a glorious new world in which we are all responsible and empowered enough to look after our own careers to our best advantage. The danger is that the profession will become increasingly atomised and lacking in solidarity, and we end up with a workforce of completely disenfranchised, unskilled day labourers lacking the wherewithall to improve their situation. It is true that the engineers seem perfectly happy with their lot, but when this kind of system was introduced to the lower ends of the construction industry in the nineties it got a more muted reception. I recall a fair few workers bemoaning to me how they were getting screwed.
So anyway, I am not convinced by what I see as a very neo-liberal answer to our problems, which like all neo-liberal answers will be very convenient for those with the nouce to take advantage of it, but not so great for everyone else. When I have perfected my alternative, based on sound anarcho-syndicalist principals, I will let you all know.
TTFN,
Mr Tom
Casual Labour - tom wilson - 23rd March 2006
Oh and while I'm at it:
'our clients know and recognise...'
'we are making a positive contribution to...'
Have they done any of these things yet?
Has anyone had any dealings with them?
Casual Labour - 1man1desk - 23rd March 2006
Have you noticed that if you click on any of the links on the archpeople homepage, nothing happens? Doesn't seem to be running properly at all.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
Casual Labour - BAJR Host - 23rd March 2006
I have invited them to the board so they can answer questions and ask for suggestions... lets be kind. Until they can answer
Another day another WSI?
Casual Labour - Digger - 23rd March 2006
1MAN, top of site page says under construction.