Presumably everyone who has ever left a secure, permanent job for something
more risky has done so partly because the new job had something going for
it. Perhaps we need to think about how we advertise jobs and make them more
attractive. Career Opportunities adverts and job adverts in the Newsletter
seem to follow a standard template - you can almost read them without
actually reading the words. And I know that it's because employers have to
lay out the basic requirements of the job. Jobs in other sectors (business
for example) tend to focus more on the type of individual the employer wants
to attract, not whether they have paid their stamp in experience and
registered status.
Most of us know what experience you need to do a middle management job in
archives/RM - to be tempted to move, the job needs to be sold to us. Some of
us are even willing to apply for jobs we might not have the specified
experience for, but which we know we could do, if the job is an attractive
proposition. Given the number of jobs that are out there at the moment,
surely some of them could be advertised in a way that makes people want to
apply? My last job move (from one permanent local authority job to another)
was partly due to seeing an advert that made me want to move, while idly
flicking through Career Opps.
Jan Hargreaves
Lancashire Record Office
23/11/01
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