Job searching
After watching the news where they discussed the plight of the unemployed over-50's who are trying to get back into work and reading something similar in the Law Society Gazette about prospective trainees who have trouble finding work I thought I'd mention my recent search for staff. There are a two jobs on offer, first for duty solicitors. There's no upper limit to how many we'll employ at the moment. We have adverts in all the local court robing/advocate rooms and are putting an ad in the Gazette. So far we have had zero applications. The second job is for a 3-day a week receptionist/office junior. We ran a single small ad in the Evening Standard for one day only. At the last count we had received approximately 1,200 applications. The vast majority of the applicants have been wildly inappropriate (e.g. people massively over-qualified, those living in inappropriate places by which I mean it would cost them more to get to work than we would ...