Ive just been told that i am loosing my job

[Joyrider1]

I worked at Nokia in Farnborough since 2001 and left last May - could see this coming for the last few years - shame really because for the first four or five years it was great working for a company at the top of its game and I was really proud to work for them, but unfortunately they were just too stuck in their ways didn't move with the times....glad I got out when I did.

But OP hope it all works out well for you - Not sure what it is that you do, but guess at least you've got until early 2012 to find something else...

Oh, and @ Bobby Mack, if you are who I think you are, I wouldn't worry too much, with your line of work you don't need to stay in mobile comms, you could completely change industry like I did, yet still do the same job ;-)

Edited by Joyrider1 on Wednesday 27th April 18:24

[Carrot]

mgmrw2003 said:

Lost soul said:

Why dont you give the guy a break you fktard

+1


As I'm temp contracting as an agency employee, on a steelworks that is losing £250m a year, I've been told the same.... Expect to be out of work by summer. (3rd time in 2years, GREAT!)

Sympathies mate. Hope you've got a back-up plan/nest-egg, as only other alternative I've found is word of mouth and agency work, which is no way to build a future.

+2 fking spelling police. Never a time or a place - nobody thinks you are clever other than the other wkers of your type...

OP I know a couple of people who worked there and you are local to me (Sandhurst). There are jobs out there, I landed an offer within 6 weeks of looking about 3 months ago - just put your effort in and you will get rewarded.

Been told that Linkedin is also a good route, but have never used it myself.

[edc]

Good luck in the job hunt. I'm an ex IT/telco recruiter (long time ago) but now in HR. Am local if you want any help with CV etc.

[Exoticaholic]

Sympathies are in order. You're not the only one as I walked through the company's doors today for the last time, having served 3 days short of 22 years.

Obviously it was very difficult and I know how you are feeling atm.

Chin up, things will get worse before it gets better.

[deveng]

Parsnip said:

Well done mate, really funny. Berk.

Unless you happen to work in oil and gas, then the UK is pretty horrid for engineering based jobs - cliched, but still really sad.

Edited by Parsnip on Wednesday 27th April 15:25

I disagree, I'm a mechanical engineer here in the UK and as a new company (5 years this summer) we have gone from strength to strength over the past 3 years.

[Pulse]

Pints said:

Not sure where the OP is based (didn't click his profile) but there's also Motorola in Swindon, and EverythingEverywhere in Hatfield (T-Mobile) and Bristol or London (Orange).

Unfortunately I don't think Motorola are doing very well either, are they? AFAIK, Ray is based in Swindon though. It's not just engineering though; the entire job market seems to be pretty poor at the moment. There are a lot of jobs advertised, but most are poor quality, and those that are good have a huge amount of applicants.

Good luck with the search.

[Ray Singh]

Thanks for the replies all of you (even the spelling Police).

I didnt sleep well last night and was worried about the prospect of looking for another job. I have become institutionalised by working at Nokia for 15 years. This was my first job since leaving unversity and understandably i am worried about interviews etc.

I am listing the sorts of jobs i would like to do after all this could be a good chance to do something new. I am based in Swindon and my wife and children are well established here. Telecomms companies are far and few between around this area now and Alcatel Lucent is looking at cuts and Motorola is now gone.

The worst case scenario would be that i am one of the chosen few to continue employment with Accenture, meaning that i would not be entitled to a redundancy pacakage.

[mgmrw2003]

Team 17 said:

hornetrider said:

Oh and relating to an earlier post, since when have Voda been in pharmaceuticals?!

I think he meant that pharma is one of their big contracts, I work in pharma and we have a dedicated Vodafone support team based here.

That's the one, was involved with various projects and they were repeatidly telling us how the pharma market was a new thing, starting small but what they wanted to move into

[anonymous-user]

Ray - I was a full timer at Microsoft for 15 odd years and then left as I'd had enough. You do get institutionaliser to a degree BUT trust me when I say that it's very liberating working for another organisation (or for yourself in my case) where it's all new again - scary but exciting. Best of luck!

[spikeyhead]

There's plenty of jobs about for RF design at the moment, not sure about the rest of the engineering sectors but I do see people trying hard to recruit so I suspect there's a decent amount available.

Keep your chin up, don't bullst on your CV and you'll find something good soon enough.

[Countdown]

Bad luck Ray.

Hard to think positive but its funny how things turn out sometimes

[jdbecks]

depends what type of engineering job your in, what do you do?

[Ray Singh]

My degree is within Telecommunications electronics, but my specilaist subject was RF design. However, i havent designed in anger for about 10 years.

Recently, i was a Customer Technical Acceptance manager. This involved liasing with operators like Vodafone, Orange and others all over the world, to make sure that a Nokia product passsed their own internal acceptance testing.
The job involved lots of error verfication and tracking as well as managing fixes etc.

[hornetrider]

jobserve Ray - pop your skills in and see what pops up.

[AndyClockwise]

Ray - PM sent

[ARH]

Me too, been there since nokia took over technophone in the early 90's. Rapid prototyping and CNC programming. Looks like I might just try something different. Don't have any kids, or mortgage. Move away from farnborough and live a simpler life. Not sure I want to work for anyone, time to see if I can go it alone. the wife has been working for herself for 6 years and that has all come to a halt in the last month as well. Happy days here, if you see me begging for food, chuck me a crumb or 2.

[gf15]

PM sent.

Good time to be a RF planner!

[prand]

Ray Singh said:

The worst case scenario would be that i am one of the chosen few to continue employment with Accenture, meaning that i would not be entitled to a redundancy pacakage.

Er, hang on, yes you go and work for an outsourced supplier, but doesn't that mean you still have a job (with TUPE T&Cs for the foreseeable)?

Try and look at the good side of this - Accenture are massive and opportunities might be a lot better than you sitting in Swindon (a town which, I fear has seen its best years now) wondering where your career went.

Also - understand this is happening to a huge amount of people, so you aren't the only person going through this. So it means that you have a chance to move in a new direction, people are on the move, so do something you've always wanted to try perhaps. Just don't look at the bad side and dwell in the grief of losing what you had got nice and comfortable with, the worst will come true if you let it, so turn it all on its head!

Good luck! Between now and September I'll be going through a similar process, and I'm trying my hardest to me the person calling the shots, and looking at ways of coming out of this tough period with lots of positives.

[littlegreenfairy]

Motorola is still here - but on a really small scale (Near George Whites now)

Good luck and hope everything works out for you.