My partner and I relocated from a vibrant area in Essex a month ago to Spalding.
My partner has applied for several positions since arriving here, but to date with no job offers.
After working for Alliance Boots PLC for the last 15 years at their major Lakeside Thurrock store where she was involved heavily in every aspect of retail and customer service, we both find it very difficult to understand why companies in this local area fail to reply to applications.
Prior to relocating here, Travelodge have been advertising for staff for the last two months and my partner has presented herself to the company in person and handed over a CV, Subway have been looking for staff for several weeks, again a CV presented, but nothing in reply. Joules, Cotton Traders, Aldi, Lidl, Wilko, Morrisons, WH Smith, Argos, plus several others have been seen to have vacancies but they never reply.
It certainly speaks volumes about companies who want to be seen as great and caring companies, but in reality are shambolic and lack total professionalism.
One cheeky company even called my partner for a job as a carer, gave a telephone interview, confirmed after one hour’s conversation that she would be accepted for a position and a lady called Helen would call back regarding a training course, well here we are one and half weeks later and no call or offer of a training course.
There seems to be a waste of time website Indeed which advertises jobs from everything from a washer woman to an astronaut, but again a useless tool who reply to nothing and advertise the same positions time after time.
What the hell is the function of this company?
What is the problem with employers in this area? Are they just damn right rude, ignorant, slow? Maybe London born and bred people are just too energetic for the slow pace of life here and employers maybe are frightened of being woken from their comatose state of mind.
Perhaps you could enlighten me to the problem before many more people move from the bright lights to the positively dim.
Mr C Ayres
Spalding
