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How bad is the job situation in your area?

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  • telboyo
    telboyo Posts: 410 Forumite
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    I live in Llanelli and the job sit in here is even worse than swansea- Minimum wage jobs are the norm around here.
    People like Olias are the people that Cameron is targeting
  • pompeyrich
    pompeyrich Posts: 3,135 Forumite
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    telboyo wrote: »
    I live in Llanelli and the job sit in here is even worse than swansea- Minimum wage jobs are the norm around here.
    People like Olias are the people that Cameron is targeting

    If there are children in the household, minimum wage jobs are quite attractive once all the tax credits and HB/CTB are added.

    Here in Portsmouth, there seem to be quite a few jobs advertised in the local paper, a quick search on the job page shows quite a range of opportunities. Jobs in Portsmouth

    Both my lads managed to get part time jobs in local supermarkets, which helps them through college but not good enough to allow them to move out of the family home.
  • katkim
    katkim Posts: 1,144 Forumite
    I'm willing to move anywhere in the UK for a job in my field, however post Christmas there have been about 8 new jobs posted nationally, which is depressing. I'm now considering the option of changing careers / getting any job that I can, or emigrating to where the industry is a bit healthy and waiting it out until the UK sector gets back on its feet (if it ever does!) It's just hard to know what to do...

    It's grim out there. I try and avoid the news when I can these days, my heart sinks everytime there's a story about the economy shrinking, more companies closing, unemployment rising etc which makes getting a job even harder.
  • cgk1
    cgk1 Posts: 1,300 Forumite
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    slugger09 wrote: »
    I read in todays paper that last year 4 out of 5 new jobs went to non UK citizens with the vast majority being eastern European,

    A lot of those people will be living in absolute slums and crowded in five to a room. You can make a minimum wage job work if you are willing to live like it's the 19th century.
  • HI, things here in shropshire are diabolical.both my sons are out of work.There is no hope of any employment any time soon.Good luck to you.

    regards

    lindelou:(
  • andy2004
    andy2004 Posts: 1,309 Forumite
    edited 18 February 2011 at 1:04AM
    Well over the past whatever 6-7years, i have signed up with 12 job agencies and not worked for any of them for any period of time.
    I use to go in on a monday to one particular agency i signed/registered with ask about jobs get told to phone on friday, on friday get told to go in and ask. after 3months i got asked have you registered with us, by the person who registered me.

    Even had a job agency get a room in the jobcentre which i was TOLD to sign up with, as they where dealing on a behalf of a local company, over 200 jobseekers where told to sign on with the agency, 2 weeks later i was asked if i heard anything from them. NO was my reply, when i phoned them i got an answer machine, as all the people who saw them the same day i did where suppose to receive a phone call 3 days later. Not one person who signed up with the agency got called, not one got a job through them.

    I have personally been on most back to work program the jobcentre has come up with in the last 18years, redone my C.V about 10times, and i have only managed to get 1 job via the jobcentre, and thats when my personal advisor "didn't" follow the rules and send me on a back to work program, but it didnt last due to the boss of the company not following the jobcentre rules of the payment plan. you know that piece of paper saying if you take this person on we will pay you £1000 over a year, and you have to follow these rules. he wanted someone to start immediately, not wait 2+ weeks for a jobcentre health and safety person to come out and look at the place. basically he didnt go through the channels, after 10 days i was unemployed again.
    I remember applying for asda 6 times in 3 years, applied to tesco's 3 different ways for the same job, 1 through the jobcentre "supposed to have a guaranteed job interview, 1 online and 1 other.
    Under 1 back to work program which had 5 parts, after each part you where supposed to be employed, i'd finished the 5th part, went back to the jobcentre and was given 2 options, 1 do something else, aka start up your own business using your benefits to start it up which at the time was £75 a fortnight, or option 2 have your benefits stopped for 6months. I choose the business route, but the help I got from inbiz which i had to go and see about my business plan was next to nothing. as for the money i scrimped and saved after all inbiz cosham told me to go to the back and get a £5000 loan to start it up., and by the time i got the money seems someone else had exactly the same idea as me. "inbiz gave my idea to someone else who either have just been made unemployed or had the money saved." seems funny, same place, same items for sell, same prices i was going to charge.

    If you think it is appauling now, wait until next year, more cuts, more people unemployed, "Thank you Prime Minister Cameron" and his cuts, why, to deal with the deficit, with petrol price hikes estimate £1.70-1.80 a litre by christmas 2012, maybe 2011 yet, which will of course cost businesses more money, and to cut costs they will sack people just to keep going, then of course 2013 when the benefits change -10%, and less jobs for those people unemployed, addon the 17000 servicemen being sacked, the 100 raf trainee pilots, and the 100's of thousands of council staff this year, his certainly "mucking" up this country even more than brown. And the fact he wants more people to be let into the country on top of all that. to boost economy, "LOL".
    I wonder if the 3million unemployed includes all those people on back to work programs who are classed as working? all the people aged 55+, all the people who are currently homeless are cant sign on, all the disabled who are able to work in certain circumstances, all the students currently are college soon to leave as their courses are coming to an end. then of course the uni-students who have decided they cant afford the increase to pay the universities.

    What do i see for the future of the UK, less jobs available, more people unemployed, less in benefits to live on, crime rate up 15%, less police.
    Anyone else think cameron is trying to take this country back into the 1800's early 1900's?
  • Mrs_Arcanum
    Mrs_Arcanum Posts: 23,976 Forumite
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    Jobs in Oxfordshire are better than most places but house prices & private rentals do not match the average wage.
    Truth always poses doubts & questions. Only lies are 100% believable, because they don't need to justify reality. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • looby75
    looby75 Posts: 23,387 Forumite
    the local paper has just been delivered, so as I do every week I turn straight to the vacancies section and this is what I found.

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    I don't know if you can tell from the photo but the whole section is a quarter of the page and contains 3 "real" jobs and the rest are avon/betterware type ads. There is also an ad for the papers online recruitment site, which is not really much better than the papers section lol
  • olias wrote: »
    In a word, no.

    Olias

    Sounds like you're one of the workshy you referred to in your own post.

    Do you have a job at the moment?
    There's no sense crying over every mistake.
    You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
  • To be fair, the NMW isn't very good, but personally, I'd still take it.


    Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
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