I used to get grumpy about the NPfIT gigs which all say "must have NHS / NPfIT experience". The adverts run for weeks with unfilled posts. Then there's the horror stories about how badly it's all going because they won't use best practice from elsewhere. Gits.
The throw-some-money-at-school-buildings programme, BSF, is only a few years old but already off the rails. And, as before, there are gigs being advertised week after week for BSF people "must have BSF experience". The BSF programme has achieved so little there cannot be many people out there with any experience that are not working on it. Why do they impose this "must have experience" constraint? They must know they won't get anyone unless they are liars.
Now it's the nuclear ads. I've been seeing for weeks the same ads for the same nuclear energy industry gigs. I didn't think we'd built a power station for 30 years but they're asking for "nuclear power station build experience".
I can understand social services and education gigs and logistics demanding the experience because they manage to fill the roles.
But sitting on the bench for months seeing the same adverts for certain sectors through different agencies for week after week seems ridiculous. And there's no getting past the gatekeeper agencies either. Even the desperate offer of "I'll work the first week unpaid while I get up to speed" cuts no ice at all.
What is really going on here? Why don't they want these gigs filled?
And why do the agencies put up with it? Are they being paid to run the ads and then reject any applications on purpose?
The throw-some-money-at-school-buildings programme, BSF, is only a few years old but already off the rails. And, as before, there are gigs being advertised week after week for BSF people "must have BSF experience". The BSF programme has achieved so little there cannot be many people out there with any experience that are not working on it. Why do they impose this "must have experience" constraint? They must know they won't get anyone unless they are liars.
Now it's the nuclear ads. I've been seeing for weeks the same ads for the same nuclear energy industry gigs. I didn't think we'd built a power station for 30 years but they're asking for "nuclear power station build experience".
I can understand social services and education gigs and logistics demanding the experience because they manage to fill the roles.
But sitting on the bench for months seeing the same adverts for certain sectors through different agencies for week after week seems ridiculous. And there's no getting past the gatekeeper agencies either. Even the desperate offer of "I'll work the first week unpaid while I get up to speed" cuts no ice at all.
What is really going on here? Why don't they want these gigs filled?
And why do the agencies put up with it? Are they being paid to run the ads and then reject any applications on purpose?
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