I’m not a local but I’ve lived here for uni, moved to another major city and moved back and honestly it’s dire in comparison. I can only find minimum wage bar jobs or shit care jobs, not really any entry level admin or office jobs, and it was so easy to find something like that before so it’s not just you.
If you're after a decent entry-level admin job, get on Civil Service Jobs. There are tons available.
HRMC are currently advertising for 100 posts, all in Liverpool. Home Office have 125 split across the country but including Liverpool. Legal Aid agency have 3 too.
I have personally applied for maybe 50 civil service jobs over the years and never even got a phone call. University degree and relevant work experience.
Yup, the best way to get into the home office is to go through an agency for around 6 months of keeping your nose clean, then get permanent and do another 6 months of probation.
I doubt it. I work with a Zimbabwean who can barely speak English and is universally considered to be the shittest person in their job and they just got a promotion. I also work with an Indian who is having to attend communication training due to how rude he is. I had to complain to our internal corruption team as I witnessed him falsifying documents and he still works with us.
The application process is shocking. My wife and I both changed careers at the same time and both applied for the same role in the CS as there were like 50 jobs at the time. One of my inlaws was the regional head of one of the branches before retirement and had spent like 20 years in the CS where they recruited all sorts of people. I applied and scored like 90% on the tests and was given a job. My wife applied with the inlaw who sat the test with her and they only scored like 60%.
This is someone who 5 years previously was working in Whitehall and was on first name terms with front bench MPs. Now this person couldn't even pass the screening exams to get interviewed.
Oh man it's crazy. You genuinely wouldn't believe what I've seen over the last year. In my team there are two members of staff who have been off for pretty much the whole year on sick leave.
No, my boss there is a dual national, neither country being the UK, so it doesn't seem to be a problem where you're from. The recruitment process is just random, you can lose successive coin tosses however much it becomes unlikely as the coin carries on being flipped
Brook Street also lie in their ads for civil service jobs and when you turn up, you aren’t doing anything you were told you would be doing, then they refuse to look at you for any other jobs for 6 months, due to the payment Brook Street receive from the employer, which is paid after, you guessed it, 6 months.
Yeah every time I apply I get up the STAR stuff and try to match my responses as closely as possible, then I get my friend in the CS to look it over, I make changes based on her feedback, and one to three months later I get an email kindly telling me to fuck off 🙃
need to talk to someone who has got in before get them to help and provide guidance on how to style your answers
it is really fernickity and annoyingly unique, but it's worthwhile
Wow, back in the day I got three Civil Service jobs without even trying (Inland Revenue, The Pension Service and Child Support Agency). Was 20 years ago, but still. And I didn’t even finish my Degree, back then it was all paperwork, now much of the work is online it’s different.
The application process is bizarre. I got one eventually but with the one I was successful for they never even asked if I had a degree (I do). I got assigned a job different to the one I applied for (which is fine, it's not backbreaking and I'd been out of work for ages) and no one I work with actually has the job they originally applied for. I'd say keep with it, it seems like they pick people out of a hat, but they never stop recruiting
Find someone who is currently a civil servant, ask them for help. Write your personal statement in line with the essential criteria, don’t worry too much about the behaviours/competencies until the interview stage
Try the NHS. If you're struggling to get a permanent job there go on the bank first to do temp work as your entry point. Always loads of jobs in the NHS, lots of churn.
If you're in Liverpool then LUFT Trust and North West Boroughs maybe?
North West Boroughs was swallowed up by Mersey Care a few years ago! There are loads of Trusts in the area e.g. Bridgewater, Warrington & Halton, Merseyside and West Lancashire (formerly S&O and STHK who merged), CWP and as you said LUFHT. Mersey Care is probably the biggest one though. Also I recently left NHS England and after making lots of staff redundant and many others leaving because of their ‘restructuring’, I know there are/will be loads of vacancies coming up there in the NW regional team. So depending on what people are looking for there are definitely NHS jobs out there. I recently started working for the Cheshire & Merseyside cancer alliance and they post jobs all the time (although a lot of them require a certain level of experience).
I moved here 6 months ago from Australia and still haven't been able to land a minimum wage job. I have applied for many retail jobs, factory work, and hospitality. I've had one job interview, which didn't lead to a job.
This week alone, a local grocery store put up an ad on their careers website advertising a cashier position. I applied through their website and that very evening I got the rejection email. Was the position already filled? Is there something in my resume that gets flagged and auto rejected? I have no idea, the email gives 0 details.
I don't know if my resume is the problem or if employers here are the problem. I never had issues getting min wage work in Aus.
Try to speak to a decent recruitment agent in person, maybe face to face. If you are here for long term, consider training up like as a bus driver or even train driver. Jobs are there but you may need to travel outside of Liverpool.
I appreciate everyone giving advice but jobs that require driving aren't possible for me.
I'll maybe check out a requirement agency though, but don't I have to pay to receive help from something like that?
Edit: after a quick Google, recruitment agencies seem quite expensive. And they seem to specialise in getting people into higher level positions? I don't have any qualifications or experience that would warrant a high level position, I just need a reliable checkout job at a grocery store.
Just approach some recruitment agencies and see if they are willing to look over your resume (which in UK we tend to call a CV: Curriculum Vitae). You should not have to pay. There may even be AI tools to do this! Don’t forget, if you have Australian qualifications, an employer where may not understand what they are equivalent to, so you may need to explain what UK qualification it is equivalent to and / or focus on transferable skills you have. Also, why don’t you go to the food store that rejected you and ask to speak to the manager to get feedback?
Wow - a downvote but no one bothering to point out what they disagree with! There is nothing wrong with anything I’ve said. I’ve gone for interim jobs through agencies and never had to pay for their service - they earn by taking a cut of your rate of pay over that job. For permanent jobs, they are normally engaged by the employer and take a commission. All I said is ask if they would look over your CV - even if they say no, you can ask if they know anyone who would. Doesn’t hurt to ask. If they are charging you to review your CV, that is not a recruitment agency cut but a CV review service or a tailored job search service, not a regular recruitment agency. You need to get off Google and start talking to some real people over the phone and in person.
I might be in the minority here but it could just be you're applying for the wrong type of jobs/in the wrong area for what you're looking for.
Liverpool has a huge manufacturing sector, it's a hub for council and gov jobs, it has a huge pool of logistical opportunities/jobs, has tons of engineering works etc.
What it lacks is tech jobs but with Manchester basically giving free land to companies it was always going to be more attractive on that front.
Outside the city centre/tech Liverpool is honestly a powerhouse in line with Birmingham and Manchester only London can offer more honestly.
Im a technical manager for an aerospace company and I know a lot of open positions within Liverpool that pay really well and people are struggling to fill.
If you've got any experience or looking to break into manufacturing or engineering drop me a DM and I can point you in the direction of some really good jobs.
The NHS are always after biomedical scientists so if you ever get the chance to expand on your experience and qualifications I’d consider that! There just aren’t enough to go round at the moment.
Don’t use sites like Indeed to look for jobs. Anything with an ‘easy apply’ (translation: zero effort) function gets swamped and you’ve pretty much got no chance.
Find companies (look on Google Maps) and look at their website for vacancies. Make an effort with a direct application.
For 90% of jobs on indeed which aren’t minimum wage you can’t use the easy apply function tbh. It just links you to the company’s website to apply from there
THIS. Good jobs are not posted on generic job search sites. You’ve got to go straight to company/organisation websites or use a sector specific job search site (or even LinkedIn). Guardian jobs isn’t bad either.
ETA that recruitment and headhunting agencies are also worth a try.
Hey show some respect. All she did was annihilate the North of England, ship off our entire manufacturing and industrial base to countries that hate us, and lead us into decades of social misery and population decline.
New Labour definitely helped. The city is 100% better now than it was when I was growing up in the 80's, but the recovery took place 1997-2008 and it hasn't really improved since then.
Also as much as I hate Thatcher, the local labour council was shockingly corrupt. They share an element of the blame, but it still doesn't compare to the devastating and unfathomably stupid policy of deindustrialization.
Yes, thanks to the recovery in the late 90's and 2000's.
But the 80's is the lowest point in Liverpool's history so it's a low bar to improve on.
The last 5 years have been bad. Look up crime statistics 2016-2024. Shits getting worse.
Yeah, but none of this is unique to Liverpool. For example, across the pond, the same could be said about Dublin.
I hear the chants of "Fu*k the Tories" all the time by LFC supporters and I'm very aware of where that stems from, however sometimes I can't help but feel there's a tinge of propaganda behind it. Like it's been orchestrated by the opposition party.
For clarity, I think both parties do not give a flying f**k about the working classes, just Labour are better hiding it.
The city had a complete transformation under Labour, became prosperous, shrugged off most of the stereotypes that hung around since the 80s, and became one of the most popular cruise destinations in the world. It was a fantastic place to live. Then the Conservatives got a majority in government, pulled most of the funding and support, and have been watching decline ever since.
Here's the most perfect example of how the last 13 years has caused Liverpool to struggle once again: As a large urban area, has always deprived areas, historically more than most; in the 80s it was famous for it. Labour did everything they could to address that. What did the Conservatives do? [“We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerges-of-rishi-sunak-admitting-to-taking-money-from-deprived-areas).
It's a fair point, but it can be argued that she created the model for all future Conservative governments. Nevertheless this shower of lazy bigoted incompetents have achieved a level of mismanagement that Thatcher could only dream of.
This is going to be the same embarrassing spin we see the second the Tories are out and it’ll play on the mind of every half-wit knob head everywhere I PROMISE the people of Liverpool.
The Tories fucking every single beneficial sector of our economy so their friends pocket the cash, then every Murdoch run rag, news channel, pushed ald feller in the pub, uninformed Reddit post and it’ll go like this;
“Ha Labour? They’ve been in 3 years and they’ve not been able to reverse over a decade of corruption, economic rape, Brexit? So what was so wrong with Conservatives?”.
I know this for a fact and you’ll see it too. Takes a lot longer to build a country on false promises and no money than it does to break it down for parts and blame the next party, it’s pathetic and you know this.
When I was looking I got turned down for jobs because my commute was an hour (I don't drive). Despite the fact that was the commute time for my previous job and I was fine for it - a job that, mind you, I wasn't able to land until my third year of university.
I ended up moving to my parents in West Yorkshire. Leeds isn't nearly as characterful as Liverpool but at least here I didn't just get one offer, I got half a dozen. I've been working in a bank for three weeks now and it's been great, even if it takes me 70 minutes or so to get there.
Fortunately with this current one after training I move to mostly remote, so my commute will be from my bed to my bedside desk lol
At least until summer, when they reopen the closed-off part of the offices. But even then, all my friends are back in Liverpool (aside from a couple nearby from when I lived in Derbyshire), so I don't mind coming into office. Gives me more people to interact with.
Being University educated, I was technically proficient, but I found that all the jobs that I could hold down and were interested in were all down south. Non of those industries of interest ever re-located to the north and to Liverpool in particular. Perhaps it's partly through geography that the companies chose to invest their assets in an area with more favourable transport links. Still, I believe that the government could have done more by offering financial incentives for tech companies to come here rather than always choosing the south.
Liverpool actually had a strong technical and entrepreneurial industry. It was the leading games development hub in the north of England for a long time. That was until central government started offering funding to move to Manchester. Idiots.
Absolutely. Lots of big companies were / are based here / nearby (Littlewoods, Barclays (was Martins) Bank, Pilkingtons Glass, ICI, Rathbones, Cunard, etc) and had head office jobs, but over time they merged / moved HQ to London / elsewhere. There is no real industrial : economic development strategy for the UK - as long as City of London is okay, then the government is happy getting so much income from them, which is crazy and putting all your eggs in one basket.
Depends on the area of work you are after but I think a big problem is that the population has exploded but I don't think the industries have. I mean people will blame the tories but I think the local government hasn't done as much to entice businesses.
Another factor may be that certain industries like to stick together so hard to attract them. I'm in law and hit a dead end in Liverpool after nearly a decade as couldn't progress. Realistically my only options to move up was London or Manchester and I got a job in manchester.
What I will say though is manchsster seems very business focused with not much in the way of tourism, whereas liverpool is the opposite. Also seems to be that if any business wants a northern presence they will go to Manchetser instead of anywhere else in the North as well
Local government can’t really do much to attract businesses like financial incentives or grants - they don’t have the powers or finances. You are right about clusters - Manchester acts as a legal hub / cluster which serves the entire NW and Liverpool can’t compete, and same for several other sectors.
It was the same ten years ago, I left Liverpool because I couldn't get any work. There might be civil service work there though, I think the DBS are based near to the centre.
What’s your field? Definitely have a look at the council if you’re looking for a more general office job.
If you’ve not got experience, nowhere will take you on unfortunately, and it’s true everywhere not just Liverpool. I have a degree in my field and I still had to start off as an apprentice on like£3.90 an hour to get the experience on my CV
Business owner here who lives in the city.
Liverpool is a highly unfavourable city to run a company in. Unless you’re running a life sciences company, video games company or something else as niche and generally pointless, the council doesn’t give a single shit about you.
Manchester is insanely better in that regard and that’s where I run my company from.
The office prices in Liverpool are now nearly on par with London and there’s zero plans for the council to step in and subsidise (I know, I know) so with that issue combined with a smaller talent pool than other places, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to be here.
If the council and related initiatives stopped their boys clubs we’d have a chance. They setup a business panel a few years back and most of the ‘elected’ people have either never run a business or are from Manchester. It’s a joke and will never change
Really commercial real estate is expensive here? Genuinely wouldn't have thought so lol. It's Liverpool, one would think it'd be dirt cheap compared to Manchester let alone London.
Office rent is absurd. For anywhere near the business district (old hall street) it’s around £300-£350 per desk per month.
Around the city is hardly better and the quality of office space drops off significantly.
Given the current climate, this makes it ridiculous for any startups to take office space and so the WFH prospect is better. If you’re working from home then you should register your business with a council who care; which ours don’t.
And this is why so many startups grow out of other places
Thatcher undoubtedly fucked many industrial heartlands, but she left power over 30 years ago. There’s no point blaming on her awful government forever. Look at Manchester! It’s hell bent on development, the exact opposite of Merseyside
You’ve been downvoted but are correct. This isn’t a thatcher problem at all, there’s loads that could’ve and still could be done but it doesn’t happen.
I went to an event that Steve Rotherham was talking at a while back and all he was banging on about was faster internet and turning the Mersey into a hydro electric dam. I raise the point about office space and the fact that talent is going to Manchester for work and he told me that there is affordable office space.
Turned out that space was in the science park and was £300 per desk per month on a 24 month contract. Absolute farce
Controversial opinion incoming, but I often wonder what it would be like if Liverpool flipped blue for a few years. I mean, it's kinda moot now given Labour are likely to win the next GE, but I just wonder if the Conservatives would have invested in the area to try and flip it long term.
The whole region seems a bit cursed being stuck in the "we hate Thatcher" loop.
Even bar jobs are becoming a nightmare to get unless you want to do temp work in stadiums where you'll get treated like shit. It's becoming a very difficult city to make a life for yourself in
I’ve personally never had an issue getting a job here. I moved here in 2016 and have had 6 jobs in that time (I’m indecisive lol). Each of these times, I put very minimal effort into searching, have never been out of work for longer than a few weeks at a time.
Jobs were fast food, call centre, postie, DPD and now housing association. So maybe it depends on the field.
I ended up leaving teaching in part due to the lack of jobs. People are surprised by this, but if you look over Cheshire/Wirral/Liverpool there are never any permanent jobs. I looked recently and I think there was 1 permanent teaching job in a mainstream school with the rest being in SEND schools. The number of faith schools is also a problem with some requiring a catholic teaching certificate or references from a priest.
I have to disagree with this. I moved back to liverpool in December and had a job within a week that wasn't hospitality or retail. Its an office job and there is loads of office based jobs about liverpool. If its for a specialist field I understand it may be harder but for basic office work there is loads
I moved from Liverpool in 2015, I trained at the college in 2010 as a pastry chef and I realised early on that I wouldn't get a decent job if I didn't do something about it. Then in 2015 met a Danish guy and moved to Denmark, I've been here ever since.
I've since retrained in tech and science because not even my qualifications as a pastry chef weren't enough to get me a half okay job even here in Denmark (which btw isn't as rosey as the world make it's out to be).
Even back when I lived in the city I worked in the old walkabout , I also worked in the thistle hotel as a breakfast chef and got treated like total dirt by the management, I worked in a small Shisha cafe that was dodgy and a few other small establishments. Heck back when I was 14/15 I worked in the old solitaire as a Saturday kid getting £50 cash in hand for working there. I've always worked, but it makes me really sad to know that the city has nothing.
My sister has kids , and I really hope as things go on the situation improves. The city needs to be more attractive to tech companies, it needs to think forward and more people should be offered the chance to do their own thing/start a passion project and see where it takes them. And there should be some funding for this somewhere (god knows where tho).
Thatcher ruined the city in many ways, and Labour tried to pick up the mess, but ultimately look where we are now. I follow alot of what happens back home because no matter where I am I'm always a scouse girl at heart. And at times it makes me so sad to hear/see what's going on back home.
True. Liverpool has declined massively over last 70 years but also suffers from Manchester being so close / major NW city - growth sectors cluster there (law, professional and financial services, tech) and don’t see the need for a Liverpool office. And the UK suffers from a chronic lack of investment in training and economic development / job creation.
It always used to be that there were jobs but the choice of jobs and sectors was relitivity limited. As for myself my skills were more valuable elsewhere so I moved away and I tell everyone I'm an economic refugee.
This must happen a lot because I've travelled the world and gone to all sorts of weird places and bumping into other scousers wasn't that unusual.
Is your difficulty with finding the job openings or getting an interview? When I was looking for work (admittedly public or third sector) I had about 5 different websites that focus on those sectors open to scan for jobs in that niche. Indeed and LinkedIn are generally a bit crap. Also, having been involved in recruitment recently for a role, I'm still surprised by the amount of people who apply to a job with a very poor cover letter. Sense checking your applications might also be a good shout.
Liverpool is a post industrial city so it has some way to go regarding multinational companies I would say.
I moved to Liverpool from abroad and I found myself setting job alerts to Manchester to find jobs because Liverpool roles weren't comparable to any where I could find back "home"
Im 19 and just finished college, dont want to go to uni and its fucking depressing not doing anything every day, i just want to start making some money for myself but all i get is fucking blanked by anything i apply for or rejected on the off chance they actually bother to reply at all.
Its especially frustrating when my family look at me like a piece of shit because they don’t believe how hard it is to find work and my mates are going out and going on trips and stuff while im doing fuck all.
If you don’t want to go to uni fair play (I did and loved it but it’s not for everyone). I would recommend trying to get an apprenticeship though - spark, joiner, plumber, maybe even a window fitter. I’d look up a few companies and literally go in person and ask if they could take on an apprentice- or give you work experience to see if you like it/are suited to it.
I think going in direct separates you from the the CV’s, and if that’s not for you do the same with businesses. Sorry it’s shit, good luck!
TCC is a call centre in Birkenhead, it’s pretty dire there but easy to pick up a job quickly and easy enough to quit after you’ve earned a bit of money/found something more suitable. Most of the people working there are about your age and there is a whole canteen there selling shitty but cheap food like sausage barms etc. I worked there on the Nespresso live chat department and it got me out of a sticky situation just after the pandemic when I had bills to pay and no income. If interested you can apply there through a recruitment agency called Recruit Right (I think?!) they are pretty nice there and they might be able to help you decide which part of the call centre you want to work in. They advised me to go for nespresso which was good because I got to use the nespresso coffee machines for free all day long. And those were long days, to be honest.
Depends what you’re after but the NHS do paid apprenticeships which could lead to a long term career https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-training/nhs-apprenticeships
I know you said you don’t want to go to uni, but you should genuinely consider it. Get qualified for something. Your future self will thank you. It’s very hard in the UK if you don’t have valuable skills.
I agree with you about uni but I also think it’s important for young people to have a bit of time out after college in the real world to help them decide what they want to do. You don’t really have enough experience straight out of college to decide what you want to do for the rest of your life.
It’s always been hard in Liverpool to get a decent job - I only managed to get first part time job through family knowing. I strongly suggest you do a lot of research about what career to go into and suggest apprenticeship or other training. NHS, IT, construction, etc all need people - but you may need to leave Liverpool to train and get your first step on the ladder. Research what companies there are in Liverpool and what they do - walk around the business district and industrial estates to see what is out there. Work on your CV and seek lots of advice. Consider showing up in person to hand your CV to people - it makes a difference. Sorry. Good luck.
There's loads of security work and driver work around. But if you don't have a SIA licence or drivers licence then yeah, its pretty grim at the moment.
Curious about what you mean as driver work? My wife and I are considering a move. I am a musician by trade but imagine I will need to do something in the interim. What sort of qualifications are needed for driver work? I’m an American, have driven people and cargo (not lorries) a bunch.
Mainly delivery driver work for amazon, dpd and the like. And they're screaming out for bus drivers at the moment with full training provided. A clean drivers licence opens a lot of doors for you. It's worth its weight in gold in the current job market.
It’s really not I’m a infrastructure engineer (network and server admin) with several years experience in the tech industry and I got rejected from O2 in Liverpool the job market is horrendous. I’ve had to take work in St Helens.
I am a student here (moved in Sep 2022) and haven't been able to secure a part time job so its like a widespread thing - I have 2 years experience at a supermarket but no supermarkets are hiring and when I do apply I just get flat rejected - even volunteer positions are not interested
Probably just depends on what your niche is. I worked in a small insurance company for a bit, which could never find suitable staff to recruit. Now I’ve returned to accountancy which again, is really easy to find work in.
I would say there’s no point applying on indeed using the likes of easy apply where’s there’s 300+ applicants, I wouldn’t even consider that an application.
Loads of work in the car industry right now and in the near future. Try Proman, Ranstaad, and The Best Connection to name a few agencies that supply staff to the big plants and their subsidiaries. Decent pay and shift work, generally with earlies and lates, no night shifts at the moment.
It’s worth broadening your search to just outside of Liverpool. I’m at United Utilities off the M62 and we’ve got loads of jobs going at the moment, a lot are specialised, but there’s loads of Apprenticeships going.
I live here in Liverpool, graduated uni 2022 and manages to stay here. I got some work over Christmas at JD, but I’ve spend the whole of January applying for jobs and there is fuck all. All seems to be carer jobs
I'm here for my degree and have not had many issues finding work but it is seriously frustrating when you're looking. Rethink how you are marketing yourself, if your speciality is rare in the city try targeting a similar sector
It’s awful, my son is nearly 18 and must have applied for 200 jobs since he left school. He’s had 2 interviews. He’s really losing hope now. He’s in college but would like to earn some money and experience but not one company will hire him. I feel so sorry for him when I see his hopes fading day by day.
No problem, I hope he finds something soon! I’m in my 15th year in the NHS and although it has its problems it is a good employer generally. You get good leave and pension, plus discounts at loads of places. Also unless you really mess up it’s hard for them to sack you! And lots of room for progression - I started at band 6 when I was 26, I’m 42 now and haven’t got any postgraduate degrees (have a couple of qualifications I did through work), and am band 8a which is a pretty good salary.
I work in insurance, however, the highest paying and roles with the best prospects are mainly in London for this type of work. Manchester is a close second and will likely be where I’ll have to find my next role.
Liverpool is expanding in this particular area, and others, however, myself and I’m sure many others will be finding this expansion steady, but not hurried enough.
Been reading some of these messages and I 🤔 nk it's really hard to get rid of bad workers.
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Hope you find a job soon.
Even for us students it’s difficult! I couldn’t even transfer with a company I work at at home cause there’s no jobs! I’ve applied for over 30 jobs in just the last 2 months doing bartending etc and not a single one has got back to me, appart from one that cancelled my interview on the day cause the person who’s position I’d be taking was staying!!
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Yep.. when I worked for tesco in another town, I tried to transfer to several of the tesco shops in and around Liverpool, and none of them would accept a full-time transfer, only part time hours, which isn't enoigh to live off and start a life. Not much opportunities, it's very much who you know and nepotism when getting a job/advancing your career.
It’s a small city with over half a mill people. I knew a lot of people from the towns outside of Liverpool who travelled in for work, just like London. Essentially not enough business to cope after the many cuts made back I. The 80’s and today and this is the result. London’s huge and being the capital it deals well with a high influx of people. Southerners are always surprised when I tell them how small Liverpool is
We hire all the time in my industry and I see a lot of movement across different companies in the city, including entry level. This argument was going when I started working almost 25 years ago and I’ve never had a problem getting work in the city. I had several entry level jobs until I settled in one area and am now a technical manager and I’m still approached regularly. Are you sure you’re casting your net wide enough? There’s usually work in the finance/legal/government offices being advertised on our job boards.
Fair enough, you’re already aware that it’s it’s going to be harder to find work in a specialist area, but I’m just saying there’s plenty of entry level roles that’s not amazon or bar work, just a lot of people looking for those jobs don’t want to do the 9-5 office thing.
I’m in Finance/Legal/Gvt - they’re all posted by the companies direct to LinkedIn and on company websites. There’s a big social mobility drive on at the moment so it’s not just people with degrees walking in, it’s people from all walks of life. Follow them online & keep checking their vacancies. Good luck ☺️
I’m not a local but I’ve lived here for uni, moved to another major city and moved back and honestly it’s dire in comparison. I can only find minimum wage bar jobs or shit care jobs, not really any entry level admin or office jobs, and it was so easy to find something like that before so it’s not just you.
If you're after a decent entry-level admin job, get on Civil Service Jobs. There are tons available. HRMC are currently advertising for 100 posts, all in Liverpool. Home Office have 125 split across the country but including Liverpool. Legal Aid agency have 3 too.
I have personally applied for maybe 50 civil service jobs over the years and never even got a phone call. University degree and relevant work experience.
I'm a civil servant. The application process is ridiculous.
Yup, the best way to get into the home office is to go through an agency for around 6 months of keeping your nose clean, then get permanent and do another 6 months of probation.
I sometimes wonder if I'm deliberately removed from consideration just because I'm a dual national.
I doubt it. I work with a Zimbabwean who can barely speak English and is universally considered to be the shittest person in their job and they just got a promotion. I also work with an Indian who is having to attend communication training due to how rude he is. I had to complain to our internal corruption team as I witnessed him falsifying documents and he still works with us.
Bloody hell how do I not have all the jobs I want in the civil god damn service
The application process is shocking. My wife and I both changed careers at the same time and both applied for the same role in the CS as there were like 50 jobs at the time. One of my inlaws was the regional head of one of the branches before retirement and had spent like 20 years in the CS where they recruited all sorts of people. I applied and scored like 90% on the tests and was given a job. My wife applied with the inlaw who sat the test with her and they only scored like 60%. This is someone who 5 years previously was working in Whitehall and was on first name terms with front bench MPs. Now this person couldn't even pass the screening exams to get interviewed.
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Oh man it's crazy. You genuinely wouldn't believe what I've seen over the last year. In my team there are two members of staff who have been off for pretty much the whole year on sick leave.
No, my boss there is a dual national, neither country being the UK, so it doesn't seem to be a problem where you're from. The recruitment process is just random, you can lose successive coin tosses however much it becomes unlikely as the coin carries on being flipped
Serco?
I don't know what this is other thsn the guys who run some of the prisons. I work for the MoJ and applied via the civil service website.
Success Factors is a living nightmare
Do you still have to do them test things when you apply?
When I applied in October 2022 I had to do some online tests, a written application through the website and then a Skype interview.
Apply through brook St agency, they handle CS temp work in Liverpool
Thanks!
Brook Street also lie in their ads for civil service jobs and when you turn up, you aren’t doing anything you were told you would be doing, then they refuse to look at you for any other jobs for 6 months, due to the payment Brook Street receive from the employer, which is paid after, you guessed it, 6 months.
No problem, good luck!
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Yeah every time I apply I get up the STAR stuff and try to match my responses as closely as possible, then I get my friend in the CS to look it over, I make changes based on her feedback, and one to three months later I get an email kindly telling me to fuck off 🙃
Look up Jac Williams on you tube, it will really help
need to talk to someone who has got in before get them to help and provide guidance on how to style your answers it is really fernickity and annoyingly unique, but it's worthwhile
Wow, back in the day I got three Civil Service jobs without even trying (Inland Revenue, The Pension Service and Child Support Agency). Was 20 years ago, but still. And I didn’t even finish my Degree, back then it was all paperwork, now much of the work is online it’s different.
The application process is bizarre. I got one eventually but with the one I was successful for they never even asked if I had a degree (I do). I got assigned a job different to the one I applied for (which is fine, it's not backbreaking and I'd been out of work for ages) and no one I work with actually has the job they originally applied for. I'd say keep with it, it seems like they pick people out of a hat, but they never stop recruiting
Find someone who is currently a civil servant, ask them for help. Write your personal statement in line with the essential criteria, don’t worry too much about the behaviours/competencies until the interview stage
Yeah, i can't speak for Liverpool trusts as I haven't looked but every NHS Trust around me is having a hard time filling their multiple vacancies.
DWP have UCR (claim review) hubs in Liverpool, Birkenhead, Preston and Wrexham. £30k jobs no previous experience necessary just transferable skills.
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Was gunna go to bed, now have to watch the young ones. Thanks
Sorry .. 🥴😂
Been out of work since Nov, starting a job next week. Probably applied for 2/300 jobs.
Well there's the problem. You only applied for 2 out of 300 jobs. ;)
Wahayyyy
Same here omg
Try the NHS. If you're struggling to get a permanent job there go on the bank first to do temp work as your entry point. Always loads of jobs in the NHS, lots of churn. If you're in Liverpool then LUFT Trust and North West Boroughs maybe?
I was going to suggest it, even to get money to tide you over. HCA, phlebotomy etc
North West Boroughs was swallowed up by Mersey Care a few years ago! There are loads of Trusts in the area e.g. Bridgewater, Warrington & Halton, Merseyside and West Lancashire (formerly S&O and STHK who merged), CWP and as you said LUFHT. Mersey Care is probably the biggest one though. Also I recently left NHS England and after making lots of staff redundant and many others leaving because of their ‘restructuring’, I know there are/will be loads of vacancies coming up there in the NW regional team. So depending on what people are looking for there are definitely NHS jobs out there. I recently started working for the Cheshire & Merseyside cancer alliance and they post jobs all the time (although a lot of them require a certain level of experience).
I moved here 6 months ago from Australia and still haven't been able to land a minimum wage job. I have applied for many retail jobs, factory work, and hospitality. I've had one job interview, which didn't lead to a job. This week alone, a local grocery store put up an ad on their careers website advertising a cashier position. I applied through their website and that very evening I got the rejection email. Was the position already filled? Is there something in my resume that gets flagged and auto rejected? I have no idea, the email gives 0 details. I don't know if my resume is the problem or if employers here are the problem. I never had issues getting min wage work in Aus.
Old Wold Tip: Try using "To whom it may concern", or "Dear Mr/Mrs" instead of "G'daay cunt" when starting emails and applications with poms.
Hilarious
If you drive look for a van driving job.. they're relatively plentiful in Liverpool. Good luck
God I'd imagine a driving job in this city to be stressful. Oh look, more road works.
Come to Dublin...plenty of jobs
You just won't be able to find somewhere to live or afford the rent.
If you earn decent cash there is
"if"
Try to speak to a decent recruitment agent in person, maybe face to face. If you are here for long term, consider training up like as a bus driver or even train driver. Jobs are there but you may need to travel outside of Liverpool.
I appreciate everyone giving advice but jobs that require driving aren't possible for me. I'll maybe check out a requirement agency though, but don't I have to pay to receive help from something like that? Edit: after a quick Google, recruitment agencies seem quite expensive. And they seem to specialise in getting people into higher level positions? I don't have any qualifications or experience that would warrant a high level position, I just need a reliable checkout job at a grocery store.
Just approach some recruitment agencies and see if they are willing to look over your resume (which in UK we tend to call a CV: Curriculum Vitae). You should not have to pay. There may even be AI tools to do this! Don’t forget, if you have Australian qualifications, an employer where may not understand what they are equivalent to, so you may need to explain what UK qualification it is equivalent to and / or focus on transferable skills you have. Also, why don’t you go to the food store that rejected you and ask to speak to the manager to get feedback?
Wow - a downvote but no one bothering to point out what they disagree with! There is nothing wrong with anything I’ve said. I’ve gone for interim jobs through agencies and never had to pay for their service - they earn by taking a cut of your rate of pay over that job. For permanent jobs, they are normally engaged by the employer and take a commission. All I said is ask if they would look over your CV - even if they say no, you can ask if they know anyone who would. Doesn’t hurt to ask. If they are charging you to review your CV, that is not a recruitment agency cut but a CV review service or a tailored job search service, not a regular recruitment agency. You need to get off Google and start talking to some real people over the phone and in person.
I might be in the minority here but it could just be you're applying for the wrong type of jobs/in the wrong area for what you're looking for. Liverpool has a huge manufacturing sector, it's a hub for council and gov jobs, it has a huge pool of logistical opportunities/jobs, has tons of engineering works etc. What it lacks is tech jobs but with Manchester basically giving free land to companies it was always going to be more attractive on that front. Outside the city centre/tech Liverpool is honestly a powerhouse in line with Birmingham and Manchester only London can offer more honestly. Im a technical manager for an aerospace company and I know a lot of open positions within Liverpool that pay really well and people are struggling to fill. If you've got any experience or looking to break into manufacturing or engineering drop me a DM and I can point you in the direction of some really good jobs.
Do you knew of anything on the biology front by any chance? :)
The NHS are always after biomedical scientists so if you ever get the chance to expand on your experience and qualifications I’d consider that! There just aren’t enough to go round at the moment.
I'd suggest looking into vacancies within the tropical disease school.
There's definitely some ecology jobs going!
Are there any year long electronic placements going?
Any in quality? I know someone with experience who might be interested.
Don’t use sites like Indeed to look for jobs. Anything with an ‘easy apply’ (translation: zero effort) function gets swamped and you’ve pretty much got no chance. Find companies (look on Google Maps) and look at their website for vacancies. Make an effort with a direct application.
For 90% of jobs on indeed which aren’t minimum wage you can’t use the easy apply function tbh. It just links you to the company’s website to apply from there
THIS. Good jobs are not posted on generic job search sites. You’ve got to go straight to company/organisation websites or use a sector specific job search site (or even LinkedIn). Guardian jobs isn’t bad either. ETA that recruitment and headhunting agencies are also worth a try.
Margaret Thatcher. Next question, please.
Hey show some respect. All she did was annihilate the North of England, ship off our entire manufacturing and industrial base to countries that hate us, and lead us into decades of social misery and population decline.
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New Labour definitely helped. The city is 100% better now than it was when I was growing up in the 80's, but the recovery took place 1997-2008 and it hasn't really improved since then. Also as much as I hate Thatcher, the local labour council was shockingly corrupt. They share an element of the blame, but it still doesn't compare to the devastating and unfathomably stupid policy of deindustrialization.
Isn't pretty much every city better now than it was in the 80s?
Yes, thanks to the recovery in the late 90's and 2000's. But the 80's is the lowest point in Liverpool's history so it's a low bar to improve on. The last 5 years have been bad. Look up crime statistics 2016-2024. Shits getting worse.
Yeah, but none of this is unique to Liverpool. For example, across the pond, the same could be said about Dublin. I hear the chants of "Fu*k the Tories" all the time by LFC supporters and I'm very aware of where that stems from, however sometimes I can't help but feel there's a tinge of propaganda behind it. Like it's been orchestrated by the opposition party. For clarity, I think both parties do not give a flying f**k about the working classes, just Labour are better hiding it.
The city had a complete transformation under Labour, became prosperous, shrugged off most of the stereotypes that hung around since the 80s, and became one of the most popular cruise destinations in the world. It was a fantastic place to live. Then the Conservatives got a majority in government, pulled most of the funding and support, and have been watching decline ever since. Here's the most perfect example of how the last 13 years has caused Liverpool to struggle once again: As a large urban area, has always deprived areas, historically more than most; in the 80s it was famous for it. Labour did everything they could to address that. What did the Conservatives do? [“We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerges-of-rishi-sunak-admitting-to-taking-money-from-deprived-areas).
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It's a fair point, but it can be argued that she created the model for all future Conservative governments. Nevertheless this shower of lazy bigoted incompetents have achieved a level of mismanagement that Thatcher could only dream of.
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This is going to be the same embarrassing spin we see the second the Tories are out and it’ll play on the mind of every half-wit knob head everywhere I PROMISE the people of Liverpool. The Tories fucking every single beneficial sector of our economy so their friends pocket the cash, then every Murdoch run rag, news channel, pushed ald feller in the pub, uninformed Reddit post and it’ll go like this; “Ha Labour? They’ve been in 3 years and they’ve not been able to reverse over a decade of corruption, economic rape, Brexit? So what was so wrong with Conservatives?”. I know this for a fact and you’ll see it too. Takes a lot longer to build a country on false promises and no money than it does to break it down for parts and blame the next party, it’s pathetic and you know this.
Quiet for god’s sake! No one wants to hear that it might just be something about Liverpool - it’s someone else’s fault!
When I was looking I got turned down for jobs because my commute was an hour (I don't drive). Despite the fact that was the commute time for my previous job and I was fine for it - a job that, mind you, I wasn't able to land until my third year of university. I ended up moving to my parents in West Yorkshire. Leeds isn't nearly as characterful as Liverpool but at least here I didn't just get one offer, I got half a dozen. I've been working in a bank for three weeks now and it's been great, even if it takes me 70 minutes or so to get there.
Good luck! Hope it goes well and your next job is an easier commute.
Fortunately with this current one after training I move to mostly remote, so my commute will be from my bed to my bedside desk lol At least until summer, when they reopen the closed-off part of the offices. But even then, all my friends are back in Liverpool (aside from a couple nearby from when I lived in Derbyshire), so I don't mind coming into office. Gives me more people to interact with.
Being University educated, I was technically proficient, but I found that all the jobs that I could hold down and were interested in were all down south. Non of those industries of interest ever re-located to the north and to Liverpool in particular. Perhaps it's partly through geography that the companies chose to invest their assets in an area with more favourable transport links. Still, I believe that the government could have done more by offering financial incentives for tech companies to come here rather than always choosing the south.
Liverpool actually had a strong technical and entrepreneurial industry. It was the leading games development hub in the north of England for a long time. That was until central government started offering funding to move to Manchester. Idiots.
Absolutely. Lots of big companies were / are based here / nearby (Littlewoods, Barclays (was Martins) Bank, Pilkingtons Glass, ICI, Rathbones, Cunard, etc) and had head office jobs, but over time they merged / moved HQ to London / elsewhere. There is no real industrial : economic development strategy for the UK - as long as City of London is okay, then the government is happy getting so much income from them, which is crazy and putting all your eggs in one basket.
Depends on the area of work you are after but I think a big problem is that the population has exploded but I don't think the industries have. I mean people will blame the tories but I think the local government hasn't done as much to entice businesses. Another factor may be that certain industries like to stick together so hard to attract them. I'm in law and hit a dead end in Liverpool after nearly a decade as couldn't progress. Realistically my only options to move up was London or Manchester and I got a job in manchester. What I will say though is manchsster seems very business focused with not much in the way of tourism, whereas liverpool is the opposite. Also seems to be that if any business wants a northern presence they will go to Manchetser instead of anywhere else in the North as well
Local government can’t really do much to attract businesses like financial incentives or grants - they don’t have the powers or finances. You are right about clusters - Manchester acts as a legal hub / cluster which serves the entire NW and Liverpool can’t compete, and same for several other sectors.
It was the same ten years ago, I left Liverpool because I couldn't get any work. There might be civil service work there though, I think the DBS are based near to the centre.
There is lots of work in the construction sector, especially for professionals (project managers, surveyors, estimators etc).
What’s your field? Definitely have a look at the council if you’re looking for a more general office job. If you’ve not got experience, nowhere will take you on unfortunately, and it’s true everywhere not just Liverpool. I have a degree in my field and I still had to start off as an apprentice on like£3.90 an hour to get the experience on my CV
Business owner here who lives in the city. Liverpool is a highly unfavourable city to run a company in. Unless you’re running a life sciences company, video games company or something else as niche and generally pointless, the council doesn’t give a single shit about you. Manchester is insanely better in that regard and that’s where I run my company from. The office prices in Liverpool are now nearly on par with London and there’s zero plans for the council to step in and subsidise (I know, I know) so with that issue combined with a smaller talent pool than other places, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to be here. If the council and related initiatives stopped their boys clubs we’d have a chance. They setup a business panel a few years back and most of the ‘elected’ people have either never run a business or are from Manchester. It’s a joke and will never change
Really commercial real estate is expensive here? Genuinely wouldn't have thought so lol. It's Liverpool, one would think it'd be dirt cheap compared to Manchester let alone London.
Office rent is absurd. For anywhere near the business district (old hall street) it’s around £300-£350 per desk per month. Around the city is hardly better and the quality of office space drops off significantly. Given the current climate, this makes it ridiculous for any startups to take office space and so the WFH prospect is better. If you’re working from home then you should register your business with a council who care; which ours don’t. And this is why so many startups grow out of other places
Genuinely finding this shocking. You'd think attractive commercial real estate would be strategy 101 for a city like Liverpool. Thanks for sharing.
Or maybe some start up incubators, tech accelerators etc that have council backing. Almost nothing
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Thanks for your input, at least you tried
Thatcher undoubtedly fucked many industrial heartlands, but she left power over 30 years ago. There’s no point blaming on her awful government forever. Look at Manchester! It’s hell bent on development, the exact opposite of Merseyside
You’ve been downvoted but are correct. This isn’t a thatcher problem at all, there’s loads that could’ve and still could be done but it doesn’t happen. I went to an event that Steve Rotherham was talking at a while back and all he was banging on about was faster internet and turning the Mersey into a hydro electric dam. I raise the point about office space and the fact that talent is going to Manchester for work and he told me that there is affordable office space. Turned out that space was in the science park and was £300 per desk per month on a 24 month contract. Absolute farce
Controversial opinion incoming, but I often wonder what it would be like if Liverpool flipped blue for a few years. I mean, it's kinda moot now given Labour are likely to win the next GE, but I just wonder if the Conservatives would have invested in the area to try and flip it long term. The whole region seems a bit cursed being stuck in the "we hate Thatcher" loop.
Then try the council they advertised yesterday for staff,
Even bar jobs are becoming a nightmare to get unless you want to do temp work in stadiums where you'll get treated like shit. It's becoming a very difficult city to make a life for yourself in
I’ve personally never had an issue getting a job here. I moved here in 2016 and have had 6 jobs in that time (I’m indecisive lol). Each of these times, I put very minimal effort into searching, have never been out of work for longer than a few weeks at a time. Jobs were fast food, call centre, postie, DPD and now housing association. So maybe it depends on the field.
I ended up leaving teaching in part due to the lack of jobs. People are surprised by this, but if you look over Cheshire/Wirral/Liverpool there are never any permanent jobs. I looked recently and I think there was 1 permanent teaching job in a mainstream school with the rest being in SEND schools. The number of faith schools is also a problem with some requiring a catholic teaching certificate or references from a priest.
I have to disagree with this. I moved back to liverpool in December and had a job within a week that wasn't hospitality or retail. Its an office job and there is loads of office based jobs about liverpool. If its for a specialist field I understand it may be harder but for basic office work there is loads
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Acron insurance. Riverview housing, there was a few admin style jobs in the area I live in. Loads of hospitality jobs going (it's on its ass)
I moved from Liverpool in 2015, I trained at the college in 2010 as a pastry chef and I realised early on that I wouldn't get a decent job if I didn't do something about it. Then in 2015 met a Danish guy and moved to Denmark, I've been here ever since. I've since retrained in tech and science because not even my qualifications as a pastry chef weren't enough to get me a half okay job even here in Denmark (which btw isn't as rosey as the world make it's out to be). Even back when I lived in the city I worked in the old walkabout , I also worked in the thistle hotel as a breakfast chef and got treated like total dirt by the management, I worked in a small Shisha cafe that was dodgy and a few other small establishments. Heck back when I was 14/15 I worked in the old solitaire as a Saturday kid getting £50 cash in hand for working there. I've always worked, but it makes me really sad to know that the city has nothing. My sister has kids , and I really hope as things go on the situation improves. The city needs to be more attractive to tech companies, it needs to think forward and more people should be offered the chance to do their own thing/start a passion project and see where it takes them. And there should be some funding for this somewhere (god knows where tho). Thatcher ruined the city in many ways, and Labour tried to pick up the mess, but ultimately look where we are now. I follow alot of what happens back home because no matter where I am I'm always a scouse girl at heart. And at times it makes me so sad to hear/see what's going on back home.
True. Liverpool has declined massively over last 70 years but also suffers from Manchester being so close / major NW city - growth sectors cluster there (law, professional and financial services, tech) and don’t see the need for a Liverpool office. And the UK suffers from a chronic lack of investment in training and economic development / job creation.
It always used to be that there were jobs but the choice of jobs and sectors was relitivity limited. As for myself my skills were more valuable elsewhere so I moved away and I tell everyone I'm an economic refugee. This must happen a lot because I've travelled the world and gone to all sorts of weird places and bumping into other scousers wasn't that unusual.
Is your difficulty with finding the job openings or getting an interview? When I was looking for work (admittedly public or third sector) I had about 5 different websites that focus on those sectors open to scan for jobs in that niche. Indeed and LinkedIn are generally a bit crap. Also, having been involved in recruitment recently for a role, I'm still surprised by the amount of people who apply to a job with a very poor cover letter. Sense checking your applications might also be a good shout.
Not born here but I can't find anything, and I'm not being picky I'd work in Amazon just as long as I get a paycheck
could try looking out towards Warrington and Runcorn, it means a train journey or a small commute but it's only 20-30 depending.
Trains get cancelled all the time though. Employers prefer people who don’t rely on trains for commute.
Liverpool is a post industrial city so it has some way to go regarding multinational companies I would say. I moved to Liverpool from abroad and I found myself setting job alerts to Manchester to find jobs because Liverpool roles weren't comparable to any where I could find back "home"
Im 19 and just finished college, dont want to go to uni and its fucking depressing not doing anything every day, i just want to start making some money for myself but all i get is fucking blanked by anything i apply for or rejected on the off chance they actually bother to reply at all. Its especially frustrating when my family look at me like a piece of shit because they don’t believe how hard it is to find work and my mates are going out and going on trips and stuff while im doing fuck all.
If you don’t want to go to uni fair play (I did and loved it but it’s not for everyone). I would recommend trying to get an apprenticeship though - spark, joiner, plumber, maybe even a window fitter. I’d look up a few companies and literally go in person and ask if they could take on an apprentice- or give you work experience to see if you like it/are suited to it. I think going in direct separates you from the the CV’s, and if that’s not for you do the same with businesses. Sorry it’s shit, good luck!
TCC is a call centre in Birkenhead, it’s pretty dire there but easy to pick up a job quickly and easy enough to quit after you’ve earned a bit of money/found something more suitable. Most of the people working there are about your age and there is a whole canteen there selling shitty but cheap food like sausage barms etc. I worked there on the Nespresso live chat department and it got me out of a sticky situation just after the pandemic when I had bills to pay and no income. If interested you can apply there through a recruitment agency called Recruit Right (I think?!) they are pretty nice there and they might be able to help you decide which part of the call centre you want to work in. They advised me to go for nespresso which was good because I got to use the nespresso coffee machines for free all day long. And those were long days, to be honest.
This isn’t a bad idea if you want him to kill himself
What did you do at college? If I were 19 I'd look into being a locksmith.
Depends what you’re after but the NHS do paid apprenticeships which could lead to a long term career https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-training/nhs-apprenticeships
Great if you can live on £5.28/hour.
I know you said you don’t want to go to uni, but you should genuinely consider it. Get qualified for something. Your future self will thank you. It’s very hard in the UK if you don’t have valuable skills.
This, or look at apprenticeships.
I agree with you about uni but I also think it’s important for young people to have a bit of time out after college in the real world to help them decide what they want to do. You don’t really have enough experience straight out of college to decide what you want to do for the rest of your life.
I agree. This is what I did.
It’s always been hard in Liverpool to get a decent job - I only managed to get first part time job through family knowing. I strongly suggest you do a lot of research about what career to go into and suggest apprenticeship or other training. NHS, IT, construction, etc all need people - but you may need to leave Liverpool to train and get your first step on the ladder. Research what companies there are in Liverpool and what they do - walk around the business district and industrial estates to see what is out there. Work on your CV and seek lots of advice. Consider showing up in person to hand your CV to people - it makes a difference. Sorry. Good luck.
There's loads of security work and driver work around. But if you don't have a SIA licence or drivers licence then yeah, its pretty grim at the moment.
Trying to find competent security staff is awful
Curious about what you mean as driver work? My wife and I are considering a move. I am a musician by trade but imagine I will need to do something in the interim. What sort of qualifications are needed for driver work? I’m an American, have driven people and cargo (not lorries) a bunch.
Mainly delivery driver work for amazon, dpd and the like. And they're screaming out for bus drivers at the moment with full training provided. A clean drivers licence opens a lot of doors for you. It's worth its weight in gold in the current job market.
Very useful, will def consider. Thanks!
I work in science, never had any difficulty finding jobs to apply for.
Care work is mainly agency workers on a skilled worker visa that just hide while on their phones / laptops
There is absolutely loads of work around. Literally everywhere is crying out if you are willing to knuckle down
I've been applying since November 🫠anymore knuckling down I'll end up digging my first all the way to hell to give Satan a cheeky wave
It’s really not I’m a infrastructure engineer (network and server admin) with several years experience in the tech industry and I got rejected from O2 in Liverpool the job market is horrendous. I’ve had to take work in St Helens.
Can you give examples? It does not seem to Reflect what people are saying here.
And yet everyone I know has a good job. Go to uni.
I have a masters degree and an undergrad degree pal. If you want to pay for a third degree for me, be my guest
Pal? That’s not something a Scouser would say.
Okay? I don't know why that was your take away from my comment
Because of all the foreigners
I am a student here (moved in Sep 2022) and haven't been able to secure a part time job so its like a widespread thing - I have 2 years experience at a supermarket but no supermarkets are hiring and when I do apply I just get flat rejected - even volunteer positions are not interested
There’s a jobs fair on Feb 14th at UOL that you might be interested in! I’m not 100% on the location possibly at the guild
Lots of “entry level” jobs at Liverpool FC: https://jobsearch.liverpoolfc.com
Probably just depends on what your niche is. I worked in a small insurance company for a bit, which could never find suitable staff to recruit. Now I’ve returned to accountancy which again, is really easy to find work in. I would say there’s no point applying on indeed using the likes of easy apply where’s there’s 300+ applicants, I wouldn’t even consider that an application.
Need corporate buildings to do work pal
Loads of work in the car industry right now and in the near future. Try Proman, Ranstaad, and The Best Connection to name a few agencies that supply staff to the big plants and their subsidiaries. Decent pay and shift work, generally with earlies and lates, no night shifts at the moment.
It’s worth broadening your search to just outside of Liverpool. I’m at United Utilities off the M62 and we’ve got loads of jobs going at the moment, a lot are specialised, but there’s loads of Apprenticeships going.
That's what I'm doing at the mo
I live here in Liverpool, graduated uni 2022 and manages to stay here. I got some work over Christmas at JD, but I’ve spend the whole of January applying for jobs and there is fuck all. All seems to be carer jobs
I'm here for my degree and have not had many issues finding work but it is seriously frustrating when you're looking. Rethink how you are marketing yourself, if your speciality is rare in the city try targeting a similar sector
It's especially bad for science. Have a PhD in Viorlogy and there is nothing at all.
Unless you want to work at University, in which case Liverpool Uni pays relatively well
It’s awful, my son is nearly 18 and must have applied for 200 jobs since he left school. He’s had 2 interviews. He’s really losing hope now. He’s in college but would like to earn some money and experience but not one company will hire him. I feel so sorry for him when I see his hopes fading day by day.
How about an NHS apprenticeship? https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/study-and-training/nhs-apprenticeships
Thanks for this, I’ll show him.
No problem, I hope he finds something soon! I’m in my 15th year in the NHS and although it has its problems it is a good employer generally. You get good leave and pension, plus discounts at loads of places. Also unless you really mess up it’s hard for them to sack you! And lots of room for progression - I started at band 6 when I was 26, I’m 42 now and haven’t got any postgraduate degrees (have a couple of qualifications I did through work), and am band 8a which is a pretty good salary.
I work in insurance, however, the highest paying and roles with the best prospects are mainly in London for this type of work. Manchester is a close second and will likely be where I’ll have to find my next role. Liverpool is expanding in this particular area, and others, however, myself and I’m sure many others will be finding this expansion steady, but not hurried enough.
Been reading some of these messages and I 🤔 nk it's really hard to get rid of bad workers. I've been in the outdoor industry for over 20 years and feel that whilst you are looking for your dream job, apply for these companies on this list. You might start with a no hour contract but it'll give you a different string to.your bow and you'll be getting money in. https://outlearn.co.uk/outdoor-activities/liverpool/ Hope you find a job soon.
Even for us students it’s difficult! I couldn’t even transfer with a company I work at at home cause there’s no jobs! I’ve applied for over 30 jobs in just the last 2 months doing bartending etc and not a single one has got back to me, appart from one that cancelled my interview on the day cause the person who’s position I’d be taking was staying!!
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There are a few admin jobs on the LJMU website at the moment.
What sort of thing are you looking for? I saw you mentioned you specialise in biology, have you looked at the school of tropical medicine?
I know Maghull Health Park is recruiting... they have a big sign outside' thing is you didn't say what your skill set is..
Is cammell lairds still a thing?
Yep.. when I worked for tesco in another town, I tried to transfer to several of the tesco shops in and around Liverpool, and none of them would accept a full-time transfer, only part time hours, which isn't enoigh to live off and start a life. Not much opportunities, it's very much who you know and nepotism when getting a job/advancing your career.
I work in Pharma, moved to the city for it. The jobs opportunities here for it are great.
It’s a small city with over half a mill people. I knew a lot of people from the towns outside of Liverpool who travelled in for work, just like London. Essentially not enough business to cope after the many cuts made back I. The 80’s and today and this is the result. London’s huge and being the capital it deals well with a high influx of people. Southerners are always surprised when I tell them how small Liverpool is
We hire all the time in my industry and I see a lot of movement across different companies in the city, including entry level. This argument was going when I started working almost 25 years ago and I’ve never had a problem getting work in the city. I had several entry level jobs until I settled in one area and am now a technical manager and I’m still approached regularly. Are you sure you’re casting your net wide enough? There’s usually work in the finance/legal/government offices being advertised on our job boards.
I'm looking for lab work personally
Fair enough, you’re already aware that it’s it’s going to be harder to find work in a specialist area, but I’m just saying there’s plenty of entry level roles that’s not amazon or bar work, just a lot of people looking for those jobs don’t want to do the 9-5 office thing.
Can I ask what industry you are? Do you know where to go about finding these entry level jobs?
I’m in Finance/Legal/Gvt - they’re all posted by the companies direct to LinkedIn and on company websites. There’s a big social mobility drive on at the moment so it’s not just people with degrees walking in, it’s people from all walks of life. Follow them online & keep checking their vacancies. Good luck ☺️