kz
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Registered: 9th Aug 02
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did you get it through who you know, or what you know? seems a couple of people around me have gotten wicked jobs recently, but only cause they have contacts.
god-damnit, i have none! i reckon good positions are usually who you know, or certainly at least they get you there quicker...
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Haimsey
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Registered: 8th May 05
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My job is through what i know, but getting stuff like work experience for uni and jobs around uni is through who i know
Marcy Marc 
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kz
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actually, strictly speaking my two jobs before my current one were through other people, but they werent exactly amazing anyway!
my mate nearly got a job with carisma cause his dad knew jamie shaw!
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corsa - gus
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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I got an interview through knowing someone in the company and from the interview i got the job, so i'd say a bit of both 
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Mike
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Mine's cos of who I know, cos I work for my dad. I don't really need to know that much, to do the job either 
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Matt L
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mines more luck lol. cause tbh i feel i know nothing about it, and i know no one here lol.
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JayCarr
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Got my job at Balfour Beatty because my Dad's a project manager, my brother's a surveyor and my sisters a train planner there. It would have been rude for them not to give me the job
Had no experience of surveying or working on the railway. It's an awesome job 
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ChrisBoom
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Pretty much any trade up here its who you know, fucking bastards, near impossible to get a job.
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a_j_mair
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BIT OF BOTH, GOT INTO TRADE WITH WHO I KNEW AND CURRENT JOB WITH WHAT I KNOW
oops caps 
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Fro
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Who I know, but now I could get a better job through what I know
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andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Burscough, Lancashire
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who i know i'm afraid. i work for my uncle, knew very little when i started the job but he knew that and was more than willing to train me, whereas other people may not have given me the light of day
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AdZ9
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i got the interview for my job from someone i knew, but so did 2 others, so then 3 of us had to have interviews and i got the job on what I know and what i can do, so technically im both 
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Fro
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quote:
Originally posted by andy1868
who i know i'm afraid. i work for my uncle, knew very little when i started the job but he knew that and was more than willing to train me, whereas other people may not have given me the light of day
Same  First took me on for work experience for 2 weeks, then summer holidays, and then when i quit college early and I've been here since
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Jakey
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I stack shelves.. Hardly rocket science 
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Andrew
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Coming out of uni it's more of who you know 
Hopefully in a few months it will be bacuse of what i know but then i'd like to stay with the same company.
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Ben G
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i got my job at ford's mainly for what i know but my dad works there and helped me find the particular job, made me apply for it
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ed
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I got my job for both. My lecturer at uni knows i'm very skilled at CAD so when a phone call came in asking for somone to do some drawings for a guy who needed some CAD doing he passed on my name. I then impressed enough for him to take me on as a full time designer
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Mather.16v
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Location: Stockport
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neither...
i got put on a random work experiance in secondary school because i couldnt be arssed sorting out my own, i did ok but messed about mostly. when i was in college i saw the old MD in town and got talking, he gave me the number to the new office and worked part time for a while, then they offered me a decent job and three years later im still here
it makes me wonder what i might be upto if i didnt do my work experiance here!
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mattk
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in our job (plumber) Its a case of who you know to get the best jobs
Its the way with me and my dad that were in touch with the boss`s of soo many companys we can jump from company to company quite easily and make decent money as a 4th year apprentice Ive already had 4 different jobs
all counts towards the experience
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willay
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Registered: 10th Nov 02
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got the job from the person I knew, but I only kept it from what I know 
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Toby
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niether applied for a job in a field i have never worked and dint know anyone there
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CorsAsh
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What.
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Marc
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Well, I filled in the friend also works here section on the application form, but he wasn't in the interview. So I'm going to say its what I knew!
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Kathryn W
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My last Job it was through Who I know mainly as my mum is a manager there.
My new Job is in the local council, and I don't know a sole, so I think that was based with what I know
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
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Or because the boss fancies you
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