I know things are bad. I was in a similar position a couple of months ago trying to move into a full time health and safety career. I didn’t think it was going to happen as nobody seemed interested as had no experience in any particular health and safety field. So was looking bleak to be honest.

I had applied for a number of jobs, managed to get one interview but I didn’t get the position (I phoned them and thankfully got some feedback which made me change my interview technique for the next time). I started networking to get myself known (I also used the IOSH forums – not just the career forum but making comment on the general forum and raising the odd topic myself) finally this all paid off and someone asked for my CV.

This led to a couple of interviews and finally secured me my full time health and safety position. So that job is out there just keep trying.