5th January 2009, 01:53 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Velociraptor
No guarantees at all, at the moment, about about work.
I have to "Sign-On" at 12.15 today.
I agree that there is going to be much competition regarding "advertised" jobs.
However, I believe that only 5 to 10 per cent of Archaeology jobs are "advertised".
It is usually by local word-of-mouth, or hitting them with an email / letter in the week that they are looking for people, that gets results.
I have hardly ever believed a letter, sent to me, that reads:
"We have nothing at the moment but we will keep your C.V. on file and let you know if anything comes up".
I believe that at least 95% of all C.V. sent to a unit, are shredded soon after.
(I KNOW that is true in some cases, because I know people at several units who tell me, it is their job to do exactly that. Such is the reality).
So re-mailing units is the only way, if one is attempting to "work on the Circuit".
Yeap, I worked around the country (few months here, few weeks there) between 1990 - 1992.
After that, I realised I just had to stay in one county, in order to establish myself with a local unit or two......and also become "settled" rather than constantly live out of a rucksack and two sports bags.
I have my next 'sign on' on Friday, perhaps we should start a club! [8D] I found it particularly concerning that my Job Centre Plus spelt archaeology wrong, hopefully this isn't the case everywhere! I have to say that the advice/support given is not really very appropriate if you are what they consider a 'professional' worker. Still, hopefully it won't be for too long!
Big govt schemes will probably go through consultancies, so it will be a question of who they ask to tender. If smaller organisations are interested, it might be worth them talking to each other about putting tenders in together in order to demonstrate that they can cope with the scale of work?