Ch4: Dispatches ... the uncut PN version.

Ditto

The Gadget Show looks good on C5...

BettiePage

I'm watching the ch4 one too. These people need to lower their expectations.

Oh and sell their convertibles/ french chalet/bmw etc... in the meantime.

PasturesNew

Matt Webb - he's now been out of work for over 5 months and sent out over 500 applications, not one sign of a response.

Even if it turns round now, we'll see rising unemployment for another year.

More organisations are using agencies as gatekeepers. "This is an opportunity for people who are really committed to working because they are making the really clever, strategic moves" (what a tw4t)

He's gone for a job at £120k - about to meet James Osbourne. Job is just what he's been looking for but he has to get onto the short list.

Executive Career Coaching is a boom industry - up to £500/session. Matt didn't take up an offer for that as he needs to earn cash, not spend it.

Matt heard he had not been short-listed

Zoe's first visit to the Jobcentre.


"Jobs in packing ..."

Govt has come up with financial help for homeowners. Mortgage on interest can be paid while they are unemployed. You have to be on some kind of income related benefits, it then takes 13 weeks for the mortgage subsidy scheme to kick in.

Adrian Nicholls hasn't had to worry about losing his home as he took out mortgage protection insurance, but that runs out in a month. He has heard there is some further help for professionals and he will be asking them what that is.

It is a new initiative at getting the middle class and jobless: Job Search Support for Newly Unemployed Professionals - a day's one-to-one career/coaching advice. That will be limited to 1-in-7 professionals signed on, just 20,000.

nearlynew

People talk about the public sector being stuffed with people doing "non-jobs".

Most of these private sector jobs being lost by these people are also bullsh1t and are also only supported by a bullsh1t economy.

The problem is, instead of seeing that and planning accordingly, these people have failed to see the bullsh1t.
while their house was "increasing in value" they were happy.


Every single one of them will be an HPI cheerleading debt junkie.

100% guaranteed.

PasturesNew

Adrian's jobb centre didn't seem to know much about the new help on offer. They don't know the details yet.

Executive self help groups have sprung up around the country.

Govt funding and support is aimed at 18-24s, but they've set up their own groups.

There's no group in Adrian's area, so he's off to a seminar given by Mayfair Coaching.

The seminar was free, they were trying to flog a £4k scheme. Adrian and one other forked out £85 for a one-to-one session.

(bloke doing the presenting etc is an annoying tw4t)

BettiePage

Anyone else think these seminars are a complete con?

nearlynew

BettiePage wrote: »

Anyone else think these seminars are a complete con?

Of course it's a con.

Another example of private companies milking the system and receiving millions of public money.

PasturesNew

Adam, the graduate, hasn't had a single interview yet. He's got a £17k student debt.

Students are paying up to £100 each for a seminar - organisers are raking it in.

Only about half of 2008 graduates are in a proper job.

Ed Knights got a first from Oxford, but even he's not managed to get on a blue chip graduate scheme.

The Govt has come up with a programme: Graduate Talent Pool, to link graduates with employers for short-term intern jobs that will make them more employable. These are unpaid.

Govt spent a six figure sum developing the website and doing the scheme, but all that's happening is employers register an internship and graduates register they're looking for work. There's not much matching going on. If a graduate takes up an internship, they are removed from the unemployment figures.

Thomas Dowling might have a job - he has an interview for a manager job.

PasturesNew

Up at 5.30 and off to a proper face to face. Matt Webb has an interview, his 2nd in six months. He believes he shines in interviews and here was an opportunity to sell himself. It's a face to face interview to put across his enthusiasm . He's at the Cambridge Science Park.

He's not sure how it went, half of him says he blew it, half says he's OK. He thinks "good try, but no cigar"

5 days later he was told he hadn't got the job

BettiePage

Why do the majority turn up for interview looking scruffy?

Oh and having a fag right before they go in. It would put me off if I was interviewing. Or am I just an old stuffy fart?