New to new deal

foshizzle

Hello, i've recently recieved a letter that i will be moved onto new deal and following that i will have a interview and was just wondering what will the interview be about. And can someone summarize what is new deal and can it really help you in finding a job or is it a waste of time?

Thanks for the help and advice much appreciated

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

about 40 job seekers go to a room in a shabby building with 15 computers for about 13 weeks dependant on your age, a few of those computers will be broken. There will also be old newspapers and out of date yellow pages.

You will receive some help with basic math and english, and cv writing, you will then be made to apply for any job you can find on the internet (if you can get on a computer)

The majority of your new deal friends will be young chavs (NEETS) , they will spemd their time being abusive and disruptive.

At the end you may get sent to a charity shop for 4 weeks

It will be a horrendous experience , the New deal staff are paid peanuts, hate their jobs, and will view you as part of the underclass.

Enjoy.

seven-day-weekend

Or you could take part in a work trial and get a job from it, like my son did.

wishface

then your son is very lucky.

very lucky.

the jobcentre don't find you jobs, they just castigate you for not finding one yourself. Post #2 is correct, and you will likley have to do this three days a week at least.

still you can always ring the Samaritans if it gets bad.

seven-day-weekend

My son had been unemployed for over two years, he asked his New Deal advisor if he could have a work trial at Matalan (after sending them his CV several times and getting no reply), they fixed it up and a fortnight later after Matalan had seen what he could do, he was offered a job.

He's been there two years now

He also didi the trawling through the yellow pages/jobs column in newspapers with other jobseekers as well.

http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/stellent/groups/jcp/documents/sitestudio/dev_015303.pdf

wishface

doesn't it make you wonder why they wouldn't hire him normally, yet through this work trial scheme (which usually benefits employers more than the unemployed) a job then appears?

Widelats

wishface wrote: »

doesn't it make you wonder why they wouldn't hire him normally, yet through this work trial scheme (which usually benefits employers more than the unemployed) a job then appears?

Employers get the heavily reduced rate of £££'s labour from the victim ... er, i mean the work trial thing

Post 2 i found is correct, with something else i found, the staff at these centres can be real turnip heads, on a big power trip and threaten people many times a day with "I'll send you back to the jobcentre and get your money stopped" i thought new deal was a nightmare i been on it 4 times.

seven-day-weekend

wishface wrote: »

doesn't it make you wonder why they wouldn't hire him normally, yet through this work trial scheme (which usually benefits employers more than the unemployed) a job then appears?

I assumed it was because he had demonstrated to them what a good worker he was, whereas they can't tell that from a CV.

Not bothered anyway, he got, and still has, a job.

foshizzle

so basically they think your a thick !!!! that cant read or write on the dole great i'm looking forward to that. Not all people on the dole are the stereotypical people i.e. sponger/chav like they see everyday i genuinely want to get off it as soon as possibleand get a job. Thanks for the advice though much appreciated

wishface

Widelats wrote: »

Employers get the heavily reduced rate of £££'s labour from the victim ... er, i mean the work trial thing

Post 2 i found is correct, with something else i found, the staff at these centres can be real turnip heads, on a big power trip and threaten people many times a day with "I'll send you back to the jobcentre and get your money stopped" i thought new deal was a nightmare i been on it 4 times.

it's a gravy train for the private enterprise DWp cronies. Are they so far removed from the people they abuse in the course of their 'work'? After all they too are funded by the state - that is, the taxpaying Daily Mail reader!

wishface

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I assumed it was because he had demonstrated to them what a good worker he was, whereas they can't tell that from a CV.

Not bothered anyway, he got, and still has, a job.

fair enough; good luck to him.

im just skeptical of schemes that offer free labour with no real penalty to employers.
like the 'welfare to work' proposals.