Situations Wanted – jobseeking office has left from Donegall Street but it is not the end. Hopefully the office will be relocated somewhere else someday soon. Belfast was a great place looking for a job in the black market. I got non stop job offers and people contacted me for different reasons. I have received 90 text messages from 19 different people. I also have got almost everyday phone calls and all this add ups for 22 job offers during 15 days of job hunting. I would consider that 5 of these jobs was really honest and if the situations would have been different, I would have taken one of those jobs. I believe the callers offering me a B&B cleaning, a hostel cleaning, 2 aupairs and graphic designer one were for real. Other 18 jobs sounded too sexist or dodgy.
I met during the project so many nice and interesting people. I heard many stories about black market employment and also about the struggle to find a job these days. I appreciate all of these people who shared their stories with me and made my days so interesting. In the office there was about 110 visiters during the 3 weeks and around 80 in the office party. Many people also stopped and took a look at the window, where I had displayed my job vacancies. Most of them were amused about the jobs I had to offer but there was few people who weren’t impressed at all. Overall the project was succesfull. Putting an ad into the situations wanted section of the news paper is a valid method of looking for a job but if you do that you have to be ready to meet the black market. Unfortunately people will take an advantage of those who are just looking for a job especially if you are a young girl. Luckily I knew this would happen since I have experienced it before. Although I felt really disgusted after few callers. Because of these people exist, who want to take an advantage of young girls, the black market employment is really big and easily to access. Black market recruitment company would actually be needed in the city, since few people, mainly guys came into the office saying they want to be escorts, and they were asking would I have something for them. One guy said that I should have an ad also for a guy who is looking for a job so I would have offers for males. I have to think about this, it would be interested to see what would happen. Of course I still don’t recommend to work in the black market since it is highly risky and mostly illegal.
I attached all the offers and text messages for people to read in here. Hopefully I am able to continue my project in different location and I’ll be back writing new stuff then. In the end I want to thank everybody, who helped me with this project and were interested about it. See you soon!
situations vacant all the jobs
