I’m currently trying to find work in IT, doing desktop support and similar.  It’s very frustrating, I don’t have much experience, and that which I do have is all from ad hoc support that I’ve provided to my colleagues in the labs (or my friends and family).

It seems that no employer wants to train someone up to fit the roles they have available to fill.  This is kind of understandable, given the possibility of the trainee moving on as soon as training is complete rendering the whole escapade a rather costly waste.  However, if this is legal (employment law is a little outside my area of expertise), setting out minimum terms of service in the employee’s contract would mitigate this somewhat – the employee would have to stay with the company for a fixed time, say 2 years (which I’ve seen with employees getting Degrees with day-release from the employer), and if they leave before that time, then the employee will be responsible for a pro-rata amount of the costs incurred in training them.

At the moment, job hunting feels like this: