People of Great Britan - Take Note!
Apr 8th 2009, 7:39 am
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This woman has a double aussie univesity degree, qualified over 5 years, and only has casual work. Many nurses only have casual hours, perm jobs are not as easy to get as many would think. Govt has begun to make big cutbacks to health spending guess its much like any other industry. If they chop $$$ jobs get the chop too.
In Perth there are loads of nursing jobs available and on a perm contract.
The organisation I work for will even pay for carers to train to an EN position.
Plenty of hours available for RNs ENs and Clinical Nurses they are screaming out for them.
It has got to the stage where we cannot get any nurses that carers are now being trained to dispense medications.
Mags
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Apr 8th 2009, 7:52 am
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I'm sort of in the same boat. There isn't the type of work (IT Application Developer) in Perth that I did in the UK. I've tried applying for other IT work, that I'm well able to do, but with no luck. Understandable I suppose that an employer would choose someone with an exact match to the job spec but still frustrating. In the meantime I'm doing short term contract work.
I was gob smacked with the responses I recieved.
Its worth a try.
Good luck.
Mags
Apr 8th 2009, 7:55 am
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Don't lull yourself into a false sense of security if you are over in the UK and thinking of giving this a go. Be prepared for the worst.
There are a lot of contributors to this forum who will agree with these opinions - its tough and giving up a job in the UK in the current environment is a very risky option. My occupation is on the critical skills list, I've been in Oz for several years so have local experience and its still tough. Without that local experience its even tougher.
The final part of the post was a vent - its an open forum I can vent if I want to!
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Apr 8th 2009, 7:55 am
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IT is different to nursing. You can't offshore nursing jobs to India
Apr 8th 2009, 8:00 am
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Hang on in there louH! I do understand how frustrating it is. My OH has been told he is overqualified, will be bored, not got exactly the right experience etc etc. He'd like the chance to try & be bored thank you
He has a job offer now but will mean us living apart for time being. Needs must I guess!
Wallow in self pity tonight, have a few drinks etc & then tomorrow you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down & get back out there. You WILL get there in the end
He has a job offer now but will mean us living apart for time being.
Needs must I guess!Wallow in self pity tonight, have a few drinks etc & then tomorrow you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down & get back out there. You WILL get there in the end
As for a drink - gonna dive into a vat of cheap red wine and forget about it!
Apr 8th 2009, 8:02 am
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Have a large glass on me!
Apr 8th 2009, 8:03 am
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Get out of application developement : You missed the boat that sunk about 7 years ago mate. Change carreer.
Apr 8th 2009, 8:15 am
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Apr 8th 2009, 8:16 am
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Apr 8th 2009, 8:28 am
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Exactly the reason I got out of application development and Microsoft windows management. There's more ex-painters / ex-tourist guides and ex-gogo dancers doing Microsoft than actual computer-savvy people.
Get out of application developement : You missed the boat that sunk about 7 years ago mate. Change carreer.
Get out of application developement : You missed the boat that sunk about 7 years ago mate. Change carreer.
Apr 8th 2009, 9:24 am
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Exactly the reason I got out of application development and Microsoft windows management. There's more ex-painters / ex-tourist guides and ex-gogo dancers doing Microsoft than actual computer-savvy people.
Get out of application developement : You missed the boat that sunk about 7 years ago mate. Change carreer.
Get out of application developement : You missed the boat that sunk about 7 years ago mate. Change carreer.
Must admit the organisation I work for only recently decided to bring in computers and someone had to train the nursing staff how to use the new application.
I ended up training 9 out of ten staff how to use icare application and to do this I only had to attend a 4 day training course.
Mags
Apr 8th 2009, 9:31 am
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Must admit the organisation I work for only recently decided to bring in computers and someone had to train the nursing staff how to use the new application.
I ended up training 9 out of ten staff how to use icare application and to do this I only had to attend a 4 day training course.
Mags
I ended up training 9 out of ten staff how to use icare application and to do this I only had to attend a 4 day training course.
Mags
Apr 8th 2009, 9:32 am
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