Blobseekers Allowance

[PeterM]

"d) Ecology / conservation - depends on what you want and what you got. For low-scale practical conservation, archaeology will be looked upon favourably. Higher up (i.e. Ranger) you are up against people who have been doing it a while and/or have qualifications."

Have you seen the pay in ecology/conservation jobs - the sector relies on the same drives that make people go in to archaeology so ther are low paid/temporary (often seasonal) jobs as reserve wardens, butterfly counters etc but not that many well paid, permanent jobs - and the ones that there are will tend to go to the people with ecology degrees and experience, rather than archaeologists looking for a career change.

[Dinosaur]

Also, I'm not sure that the employment of fresh graduates is quite the same situation as seasoned archaeologists looking for work outside an area that they've been working in for a while. Graduates with limited work experience in any field, probably find themselves less stereotyped than those of us with ...erm... more life experience (I'm not "old" - I'm "value-added").

Razors, a good haircut, a course of moisturiser and some non-army surplus clothes all round (and maybe something to hide the grey bits) and we're sorted then! :face-approve:

Am sure I could pass for 21 again....ok, maybe not :I

[Kel]

Razors, a good haircut, a course of moisturiser and some non-army surplus clothes all round (and maybe something to hide the grey bits) and we're sorted then!

Ditching the combats and steelies might help if you're trying for an office job, but I believe a peppering of grey around the temples is OK for a gentleman as it adds gravitas.

Moisturisers are of dubious value. The adverts feature 17 year olds and reflect expected outcomes about as accurately as a university prospectus...

[chrysalis]

This comes down to having a series of short-term contracts on your CV. In vain can I argue that I had 15 jobs one year because I travelled the length and breadth of the country to gain experience and stay gainfully employed - all a small employer sees is 'unreliable'. Even when I point out that the same companies have hired me 7 or 8 times over my career (often at a higher grade than the last time) and clearly had no problem with my work, just that it is the nature of the industry, the CV did not go down well. I was once turned down for a 2 week stint as a receptionist in favour of a girl with no GCSEs on the basis that I 'might leave to get a better job as you are overqualified'. ITS A 2 WEEK JOB!!!! I sympathise with troll's frustration.

In terms of the questions I'd have to say that the public sector has been where I had most luck getting hired as they are more likely to value qualifications - jobs include medical receptionist (I ended up doing most of the prescriptions because 'you've been to college innit?'), PA to an NHS manager, diary administrative support officer at the JobCentrePlus (shudder), financial irregularity assessor for VirginMedia (double shudder). A lot of these were through the Hays agency who actually took time to sit and talk to me to find out my real skills and then to sell them. But it did help that I had my own car, always turned up on time and worked like a dog - even on filing end of year reports for an entire week for a conveyor belt company in Keighley! As agencies are used to folk having lots of different jobs they tend to discriminate less

[trowelfodder]

" Even when I point out that the same companies have hired me 7 or 8 times over my career"

In situations like this is can be best to group jobs where you have been re-employed so insted of reading a series of few week intervals list the company and a broad time frame describing the work as intermittent but over a long period

On the unsuccessful job front i did once get turned down for a job as a gravedigger! But the bosses son got the job so its just life rather than archaeology to blame for that one!!

[troll]

After a `back to work` interview at the jokecentre today, I learnt of an interesting scheme. The `work trial` scheme allows for a period of weeks where a claimant can still retain benefits whilst `proving` themselves on the job. Huzzah! Anyone know of any excavations in the Seychelles? Bahamas? Jordan?

[Robinwood]

WE know that resume writing is a critical task,they examined in the past from the remains they left behind. , also write Career objective is perfect format..like

Career objective: "To looks for artifacts that will declare more about the past, or features"

Archaeologist Cv Template : http://www.cvtemplate.net/archaeologist-cv.html

http://www.cvtemplate.net

:face-approve:

-syed-

[Boxoffrogs]

Ive sat on a nightshift watching bottles of Coke whizz by for 12 hours at a time, worked in the local crematorium, packed mail, sold records and tapes (pre CD & DVD days), cleaned pubs, pulled pints....and still I call myself anarchaeologist. The gaps tho get bigger and the archae jobs get harder to find. My Cv can now be used foe various trades an positions with bullet points shifting in and out as required!

The ConDems nailed us all when they pulled the roads programme and other major infrastructure projects. They have not learned the lesson of history that in times of depression it is only governments that can generate the jobs for the people....NOT private industry!

Rant Rant mumble mutter fume rant....