JSA log book - is the stuff written correctly?

CCFC_80

busy_mom wrote: »

The book is designed to assist them to sign you on quickly and saves you relaying all the info. When you have reviews with an adviser they can also use the book to backtrack and contact employers you have applied to for feedback. If you constantly right 'nothing found' they have every right to send you to programme centre where you will get help to find jobs to apply for. Turn up with no record and you can be made to write down all you can remeber that you have done and send it to a decision maker.

I think that if I was an employer I would feel very uncomfortable in providing you with information as to who has and who has not applied for jobs etc at my company. I assume that employers are under no obligation to provide job centre plus with that info.

As for this stupid book that You have to fill in, it would help if employers were force by law to actually reply to job vacancies that you applied for and then you would have the proof that you actually applied for the jobs !!

busy_mom_2

andy46 wrote: »

I think that if I was an employer I would feel very uncomfortable in providing you with information as to who has and who has not applied for jobs etc at my company. I assume that employers are under no obligation to provide job centre plus with that info.

As for this stupid book that You have to fill in, it would help if employers were force by law to actually reply to job vacancies that you applied for and then you would have the proof that you actually applied for the jobs !!

No as far as I know there is no law, but employers who use the jobcentre to advertise their vacancies are told they will be contacted to follow up the vacancy and people who have applied. I have never had an employer tell me he won't give me any feedback although they have asked me to put in writing. Depends how you ask I suppose.
Agree that they should reply to all applicants though.

stockport

busy_mom wrote: »

Thats certainly not a good example of how things should be done. I would have my staff pulled up on this. You could be on the stage 3 process now and at 12 mnths you will be referred to provision where they will stand over you whilst jobsearching. By providing details what you have done and recording it on your action plan the jobcentre should be looking at what help you need.

I am on stage 3 and thats how my job centre do it. They offer me no help, barely speak and just want me to sign the form and leave.

stockport

andy46 wrote: »

I think that if I was an employer I would feel very uncomfortable in providing you with information as to who has and who has not applied for jobs etc at my company. I assume that employers are under no obligation to provide job centre plus with that info.

As for this stupid book that You have to fill in, it would help if employers were force by law to actually reply to job vacancies that you applied for and then you would have the proof that you actually applied for the jobs !!

Completely agree, employers SHOULD be forced to write back. I have only ever heard from two applications in six months.

tsimehC

stockport wrote: »

I am on stage 3 and thats how my job centre do it. They offer me no help, barely speak and just want me to sign the form and leave.

That is quite strange, is stage 3 the last few months of being on JSA for a year? At an interview for DWP, I was told that if clients don't have a filled logbook (related to their agreement), I'm expected to report this to the benefit delivery staff and get sanctions on their claim.

stockport

tsimehC wrote: »

That is quite strange, is stage 3 the last few months of being on JSA for a year? At an interview for DWP, I was told that if clients don't have a filled logbook (related to their agreement), I'm expected to report this to the benefit delivery staff and get sanctions on their claim.

I wasn't even told anything about the log book or that it needed filling in. I've never been asked for it.