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St James Place
Has anyone worked or used St James Place? They are a company offering Financial Advice... The reason I ask is that I have been approached by them to join their "St James Place Academy" to train and become an advisor with them Does anyone have nay experience of how they operate? should i be jumping at the chance to join…
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Boots Interview - Advice??
Hi guys hope this is the right place to put this?? If not hopefully some nice BG will move it :D Anyways, after lots n lots of jobhunting lately i've started applying for xmas temp jobs in my local shopping centre so I will have pennies for santa. Just got an email from Boots and have booked an interview with them tomorrow…
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No longer allowed to use main door, have to walk through smoking area
Policy has changed at OHs work and staff are no longer allowed to enter via the main door. They are required to enter via the back door. However, the route from the car park goes through the designated smoking area. It is possible to walk around the building, but this is actually walking around the whole building to get to…
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Zero hour contract?
Hi guys my brother has the opportunity of a job with a security firm on a zero hour contract (as and when required) type of thing, he was told there would be plenty of hours available but he's in two minds as to take the job or wait for a fixed contract job elsewhere (perhaps better pay aswell) he's on full benefits at the…
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Covering letter
Ive been asked to do a covering letter for a job and ive been given a list of what to include, my question is how long should the letter be, at the minute its a page long and the text is size 10 so its not that ive used a bigish text. Would 1 page be best,
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Hourly rate / wage for a live-in housekeeper in Lincolnshire?
Hi there, well, the person who was contacted has been offered 100 GBP per week working 30 hours/week. I guess it is 100 GBP net to her + contribution paid by the household. I know that minimum wage is 5.35 GBP(?) in UK and that offers goes below that but this is a living in position with use of car, so I do not know how…
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my daughter has been sacked
my daughter was assaulted at work in the premises and on the carpark criminal damage was caused. It was reported to the police and the person who did this was chaged and caution for criminal damage the assault is on record. They did work together and he brought false claims against her saying she hit him and was verbally…
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Problem with JSA
I am currently unemployed and applied for JSA contributation based and I waited a couple of weeks to get the payment and then recieved a letter to say I have not made enough contributions which is fine cos I rang them and found out that is correct and I cant get it. But what I am wondering is if there is any thing else I…
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Salary Pay
Hi every-one, I have a question regardig salary pay that I am hoping some-one can give me advice on. I have been on Salary now for nearly a year. Work pay me a flat rate of £355 each week regardless of how many hours I do. If I work a saturday (or now any extra day as we gone to six day working) I get paid at time and a…
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pay rise while on maternity leave
Iv been on maternity leave since march '09 and am planning to return to work in jan '10.I am currently earing min wage which has just increased this month,the problem is that my employer is saying that im not entitled to the increase untill i return to work in jan. is this correct? as far i i'm aware i should be entitled…
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Gumtree for jobs?
Hi, just wondered if anyone has experience of using gumtree to find work? I have being looking through some of the ads and although some of them look genuine a lot of them don't. For example, some of them waffle on and on without actually telling you anything about the company, where they are based or what the job actually…
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Study + Work FT possible
Hi, I am considering this next year to enhance my job prospects. As I hear from friends that full time uni/college courses are 10-15 hours per week and most of the classes are voluntary as you are mature enough to know how much support you require. I can't afford to live full time work 35 hours per week on about £8 per…
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Manager has left and no reference
One of my managers at the company I used to work for has left, due to being redundant. The company I applied to might want references from the places I used to work for. Would they omit it due to the manager not being there? Would they ask a uni lecturer as an alternative?
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going for a career change but there's issues
hi everyone, i'm posting this because i would like some input, but also i think it will help me just to write all my thoughts down! i currently work for a large company in quite a labour intensive job. i've been there for just over a year, and the upper level management keep putting hurdles and hoops in front of me before…
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is it illegal to force employees to wear fancy dress?
ok so in my spare time i work part time at subways:cool: not by a long shot a good or pleasant job but a job none the less, i turn up, do my hours and go home. thats it. but tomorrow, unfortunately the manager has decided he wants us all to have our faces painted and maybe some fancy dress for Halloween. Now i dont mind a…
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How easy to go from self employed to being employed
I have worked for myself for many years and wondered if anyone has experience of being self employed then being employed. I have sold my small business but still need to work but was getting somewhat apprehensive about it?
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JSA Contribution Based
Hi, Are the funds that are given to you taken from your NI earnings since you started work? Does this impact on your state pension? Why does it only last 6 months?
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HM Revenue = !!!! Bandits
Sorry no offence. This should be on question time. How is it that HM revenue can hold funds (basically rape your wages) while some stupid tax code gets worked out. What they have took will get returned to me in full, but why is it that I have to wait months to get it back? This has also happened to my mum. She went…
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Employed or self employed for same job
Dear all you knowledgeable people I am self employed, have been for years, but my main contract is coming to an end in the new year so I've been looking around for something else, - s/e or employed it doesn't matter. I've seen a job that looks my kind of thing, though only £7.50 an hour for 10 hrs a week, 18 months fixed…
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Correct job title help! supermarket work plz?
Hi could someone please help me with the correct job title for a job i am helping my mum apply for. She is applying for a supermarket job and wish to work on the cold meats counter or the fish counter but not sure what the correct job title is. Could someone please help? thanks x