13th March 2009, 06:00 PM
It is the 2nd company advertising for site assistants on Bajr to have done this.
It is a good aim to require experience for all levels of archaeology, but requiring a years experience for a low paid, low level job on a short contract seems a bit excessive.
It also makes it an impossible profession for graduates to get into. People would have to spend a year paying for training digs, or trying to get bits of temping experience together before they could get their 1st paid job.
Personally I think that the company in question is simply exploiting the sheer no. of out of work archaeologists to attempt to cream off the most experienced.
It is a good aim to require experience for all levels of archaeology, but requiring a years experience for a low paid, low level job on a short contract seems a bit excessive.
It also makes it an impossible profession for graduates to get into. People would have to spend a year paying for training digs, or trying to get bits of temping experience together before they could get their 1st paid job.
Personally I think that the company in question is simply exploiting the sheer no. of out of work archaeologists to attempt to cream off the most experienced.