6th March 2011, 06:25 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:No need for job ads, we're just phoning people up, and rolling existing staff from one job to the next - there seems to be plenty of work coming through, at least in Northern England, another huge development scheme's just been confirmed this week up here, on a massive green-field site with two known Iron Age settlement complexes and who knows what else, and there's lots of smaller stuff coming up
Great! Do you need any more staff?
In all seriousness, this seems like a good time to ask a question I've been wondering about for a while. I know a lot of my archaeology friends have got work in the past simply because they know people at the right units, and I'm certain that practice has become more common over the last few years. I think it's a great thing for companies, because they get people they know can do the job, but I'm finding it pretty hard to break back into the system. I've been out of archaeology for two years, and even though I have two years of experience and a human osteology masters, the few companies that are hiring don't want me. I've been put off sending out unsolicited CVs by a friend of mine who received some very discourteous replies, but if there's work out there and no one's advertising, I don't see any other way of getting back in the game. Does anyone know how unsolicited CVs are received by companies?
In reply to the OP (since I don't want to be accused of hijacking the thread
) hopefully once the construction industry has settled down a bit and isn't feeling so light-of-pocket we'll see an increase in archaeological units hiring staff. The only thing that worries me is the realisation that companies aren't suddenly going to return to spending lots of money on advertising when they've discovered that the free ways work just as well.