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There's more to this, applied for one today and of course have to register with them and have a password.....
First password not acceptable as cannot have 2 consecutive characters the same.
Second password not acceptable as must be at least 8 characters long.....
Third password not acceptable as must have letters and at least 1 number............
WHY don't they state all the password requirements at the beginning ?
Just as well i don't have a job or i would not have time for this......

 

You might try www.roadtechs.com for international listings. I've used it for years for nuclear job openings.

 

Since i have been forced into early (temporary i hope) retirement by the oil price fiasco i have been spending a lot of time job-hunting on the internet.
A lot of the time is actually wasted due to some companies crappy websites, today alone i had 3 failures due to,
1. being asked to pick a category from a drop down box that had no categories.....
2.being asked to pick my school leaving date from a drop down box that only went as far back as 1975, i left school in 72.......
3. and last but not least the captcha, for those of you that don't know the captcha is a method some websites use to prove you are not a robot (why a robot would be applying for a job i don't know) the captcha has squiggly letters and numbers sometimes the same colour as the background and lines through it to make it practically unreadable, to prove you are not a robot you have to copy this into another box, after 5 attempts at this i felt like smashing my laptop into a 1000 pieces so i gave up.
What annoys me is that companies actually pay people to create these interminable websites, sometimes i think it is maybe some kind of test.
As i am not applying for a job as a computer programmer does anyone know of a recruitment agency where you can simply send a cv ???