Hello! Thanks to Tom for inviting me. I’m an EUC Engineer with 20+ years experience and recently made redundant from my last permanent role (3rd redundancy in 10 Years, lol). So I’d be interested to know if anyone has leads on remote opportunities or hybrid opportunities in London/UK?

UK job market is dead atm tbh

LOL, not what I want to hear! I’ve had an interview, but came 2nd to someone else :( Have another first stage today. There are jobs out there, but like 100 candidates for every post. And the other tricky thing I suppose is that they want people in the office, not remote. I’d prefer hybrid, but if it gets me back to work sooner rather than later, I’d have to brave the trains and all the joy that comes with it 😃

Good luck I will forward you anything that i get from linkedin. The whole recruitment process is a mess ACS doesnt help with candidate selection , You have 100's/1000's going for a single job with the vast majority who applied being underqualified but sprucing up their CV with AI to match skills and experience, When interviewing people via MS teams half of them use AI on other screen to try answer interview questions.

Yeah I would think a permy might have a good chance I saw someone's CV posted on discord man he's done so much in his job, it's good that you are getting interviews probably your experience and quality of the CV

UK jobs market is screwed. Indian companies taking most of the business and providing substandard service. I am fully expecting to be on the dole in a few weeks' time

haha probably will be joining you soon. AI has really messed up the job market with the ACS system you get AI created candidate CV's tailored to the job description with people lying on CV's with the help of AI and even cheating in interviews with AI not to mention the thousands applying for jobs with the vast majority not suitable

Yeah and rates are through the floor. I'm officially out on my ear 25 September 😞

i am only 46 so got ages left

Well I'm only coming up 51 but I've got no chance of retiring either now, taxman has taken all my savings. Looking forward to learning how the benefits-reliant cope!

haha get a pip car , claim disability for ADHD or Autism and knock out loads of kids and you be fine or come over on a dinghy

🤣 unfortunately there's a lot of truth in jest

Yeah I'm 46 been out since last December pretty demeaning, I was better of learning how to fix washing machines, boilers but then I'm forced to work 12hrs a day lol

I can't even get a job as an Amazon delivery driver cos I've got too many points on my license 😞

the UK in finished it actually doesn't pay to work nowadays..... I had to pay back 5 grand to HMRC for child tax credits many years ago as was over the 50k threshold. If i was on 49k and mrs 49k so nearly 100k combined its ok we could get it but if i am on 55k and mrs dont work combined 55k nope not entitled to it!!!! everyone gets it with a child and they dont opt you out when you move into the higher tax bracket. Then they decided to raise the threshold to 80k after i paid back the 5 grand which pissed me right off !!! lol

Don't get me started on HMRC, they've just wiped out my entire savings because they reckoned I'd been on the wrong tax code for four years....like who's fault is that? Swines. You're right about it paying not to work - thinking about developing some weird and wonderful illness instead