Visiting a different job centre

freakyogre

Hi,

Due to where I live I am nearer to a smaller job centre in a town which is where I visit. However, I am more than happy to visit another one which is in a city. I take it I cannot just pop in, as the job centre I go to now seems to have security and won't just let anyone in?

One of my ex-colleagues (we've all been made redundant) visited the larger job centre and said there were a lot of jobs listed for what we are/were looking for, but where I go there doesn't seem to be much.

I do check the job centre website daily for new listings in both areas (I will travel either way), but I find the same jobs keep appearing.

I will of course ask the question next week, but wondered if anyone had any information beforehand.

Many thanks

weegie.geek

You should be able to go to any job centre. They mostly have security to stop the abusive junkies who've been barred from getting in, especially in cities.

clairec79

It's a central database, you should be able to pull up anyfrom any jobcentre (or the website)

weegie.geek

True, but the website always seemed clunky to me. In the JC you can select an area, and a radius in which to search, and you can search several related jobs at a time. It's not too bad a system when it's working.

freakyogre

Thanks, I will check with them when I go there next week.

I understand it's a central datebase, but from what I gather, each job centre also has cards up with advertised jobs. It is unlikely that the same job will be advertised in both job centres when they are around 20 miles apart.

Like I said, I do check the website every day for both areas, but it seems to bring up the same jobs each time. If I have applied already, or the job is no good, there is little point me looking at it over and over again.

Thanks for your help.