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Posted By RichardC1973
I work for a small firm of plumbing and heating engineers and have been looking after their health and safety needs for the past three to four years. I would dearly love to move on from my current position but despite applying for a number of jobs I have never progressed. Living and working near to Hull certainly is not advantageous as it is geographically out on a limb. It seems that one of my problems is experience. Although I look after the company's health and safety needs the company does not want those needs to be met (there is no management support for health and safety which limits what I can achieve) - I therefore end up paying for courses (NEBOSH Nat. Gen. Cert.) and doing a great deal of the work in my own time. I was wondering if there was anything that I could do to make myself more employable and help myself get out of the job that I currently have. Qualifications and training are expensive (for example the NEBOSH Diploma) but I don't know if they would enhance my employment prospects. Any advice from those more experienced would be welcomed as I don't know what way to turn in trying to make progress. Thanks
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Posted By Glyn Atkinson
Don't give up, Richard, there's plenty of time for you to progress, and you are obviously dedicated to try to move onto a permanent employment basis in H&S.
Is there nowhere locally to you where a volunteer basis would gain you more experience in a different sector, eg charity shops or small garages - spray shops?
Can't help practically, even though I still work in Hull, as my job is now being made technically redundant within a month - one extra training officer full time role rolled into my previous one, and please take a £7000 salary cut for the chance to do extra work??
So I will be taking the redundancy package and looking elsewhere.
Good luck to you, it's not all doom and gloom, you just need to click into an opportunity.
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Posted By ian chapman
Richard sent you an e mail
Are you anywhere near North Allerton
My number is in the e mail
This may be a role which could have some mentoring attached so its not a case of dropped straight in sink or swin !!
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