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Turned down a course
Well Friday, my Job Centre adviser told me about a course that's starting today with boohoo, 1 week is a course at another location in a office in Padiham and the other is working in the warehouse of boohoo in Burnley. Even my adviser offered to pay for bus travel but I refused it just now when he phoned me up however he…
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Would you send a spec email?
Without giving too much away there's a major new development in my area creating alot of new jobs, some of which in the area which I have experience in. I have just seen in the past few days the advertisement of the Head of the department I'd be looking to work in and was thinking that maybe I should send a spec email to…
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Holiday Entitlement
For various reasons, I have not had any time off work this year. I am entitled to 12 days holiday as I work part time. Part of the reason why I haven’t had holiday is that my boss is extremely busy at the moment and would find it hard to get cover for the times I have off. If I have needed a day off, I have generally…
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Ice breakers/exercises
Good morning I have an interview in a few days time and I am having trouble finding an ice breaker to use in a group exercise. I have looked on the internet and I don't like a lot of them! I only have 2 minutes to do this, and have been told that I will only use 1 out of the 2 ice breakers that I will have prepared. The…
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interview question on teamwork
hiya i have an interview on friday, but cant find a good enough way of explaining why teamwork is important or what is team work, i know what it is but unsure of how to explain it, any help would be gratefully received, thanks
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Part time working application
I am considering going part time later this year. My partner and I currently have a 17 month year old and another due in October. We are also considering fostering. I believe my employer has started tightening those on flexible working/part time and I am worried it will get rejected. I appreciate it is difficult to gauge…
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Future Wage Incentive Session
Hello. I have been told that I have an interview with Skills Conditionality which is a Future Wage Incentive Session. I have a start time but no end time is mentioned. All the information is on their site and the leaflets the Job Centre give out and I already know all about it. All simple but they always seem to manage to…
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P60 discrepancy
I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct place, so apologies if not. I've just received my P60 through the post and there seems to be a strange discrepancy between this year & last year. Nothing has changed but the 'total for year' has reduced by 2k. I haven't had a pay cut, in fact I had a small increment last…
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My employer hasn't pay me
Hi, I need some advice. My employer hasn't pay my wages that I'm entitle to or even given me the 36 hours on my contract. It's been 3 weeks and they haven't even given me any notice or any information. So today I went to one of the managers and she said that the she thought that the boss had already come in contact with me…
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home care assistant job advise wanted
Hello every one I wanted to ask for some advice I am thinking of applying for a job as a home care assistant as I am desperate for a job. I have only done retail and customer service in the past and feel anxious about what I be expected to do is it worth doing pay seems not bad at £7.50 -£9.50 with free training in nvqs…
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Working pattern advice
I have worked for my employer in retail for just over a year, and I am being moved to a new location. My old work was open monday to saturday and everyone used to get a random day off in the week (occasionally a saturday if we had enough staff), when I took this job on I was told I would work 2-3 saturdays a month. My new…
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Starting career in I.T
I have been with my employer over a year and have recently transferred to a new department on 1st line I.T support all basic stuff, walk in and telephone enquiries. After a few months I have realised this is the path I want to persue but more technical and in-depth. Which my company doesn't offer. Having looked at a few…
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Taking an Employee from a previous Employer
Hi all, I am reviewing a condition in my contract which 'supposedly' prevents me from taking staff from my previous employer. I work in Finance and wish to bring an employee with me. The industries are completely different. Lets say the IT industry and the music industry. Here is the lines as written in my contract....…
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Employer withholding wages
Hi Guys, in need of some advise for my sister. she recently came off job seekers and took a job in a beauty salon. Everything was going great and she loved the job. However when it came down to paying her wages that was another matter. Firstly they advised that there was a problem with the bank. So she gave them the…
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What does this mean on a person spec?
I have a person specification for a role, and against the job spec criteria it has in brackets (A) (A,I) and (A,I,T). I'm guessing that I is demonstrated at interview, T will be some sort of interview task so would the A be the shortlisting criteria? I'm a bit thrown because it has A next to absolutely everything on the…
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Job Seeking & Worship
Hi there, just a quick question.... I'm wondering how a person would stand if they specify on a day or days that they would be unable to work due to meeting for worship of a religious nature, how is that covered at Job centres etc? Any and all genuine advice gratefully received....
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TUPE'd from big company to small company....big problems
I worked for a global company and have been TUPE'd to a small family run business with less than 50 employees. It's only been a week and there has been a catalogue of problems. Being disabled, my needs with the big company were catered for and I had faith in the massive HR department to help me in every way possible. The…
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Retail banking- what next?
Hi all, new to this forum but have been browsing for quite a while. The advice given on here is usually great so was wondering if anyone could give me advice. I am 28 and got a job in a high street bank last March which was a new world to me. But I picked it up fairly quickly after starting from the lets say, customer…
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Provident Agents????
Hi all, I wasn't sure where to post this, so apologies if its in the wrong place. I hope its ok to asking questions on this here. I am thinking of becoming a Provident Agent. I have an interview in a couple of weeks and from what they have told me they say they do some background checks on you. Now there's nothing majorly…
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TUPE rights - advice please
Hi I work for a training provider. The company took over a local training company last year and set up a separate training company for all there members of staff. Myself and my colleagues who all started together, have different contracts to the tutors in the separate training company and we get paid more. However we are…
