Views on emplyment agency's

anamenottaken

continualdiamond wrote: »

I don't care how long it took him to find a job, he got one eventually and it was only 6mths, looking back i think that was pretty good going, cos it was July 2008 he got this job, just before the economy really started to suffer and to be fair i was telling our story of how good agencies were, not looking for a bashing at how or what my OH did or didn't do to find work.

If I had been "bashing" anyone it would have been the Jobcentre for letting things run so long without making the suggestion. Perhaps they wait until the six months are up and then send a candidate on a training course which tells them.

dickydonkin

anamenottaken wrote: »

If I had been "bashing" anyone it would have been the Jobcentre for letting things run so long without making the suggestion. Perhaps they wait until the six months are up and then send a candidate on a training course which tells them.

Obviously you have not 'signed on' recently.

Many unemployed people ask the jobcentre immediately after they have lost their job about training schemes - unfortunately, there is just no money to fund them - well that is what I was continuously told when I used to sign on.

'We can retrain you' posters are emblazoned throughout my local jobcentre - just try getting 'retrained' or placed on a course - although I appreciate there will be some people who have received some form of training course that may or may not have assisted them in their job search.

Fliss_M

Cheers guys.

Our current problem is that if he takes a job thats only for 2 weeks his insurance stops. Then we are in serious trouble. Hence my current waryness of agency's. Of corse if we get to the 1 month left mark he will sign up to all and sundry. I understand that agency workers are ultimatly temperary but shouldnt part of that be in the description? Ah well, if it was there I suppose no-one would want it.

Regards jobcentres, they are pathetic. He's been there 7 months and there is no real help in finding work. They never mentioned agency's and when you sign on they do the same thing we have been doing everyday, check their own website.

As for training PAH! He was offered fork truck training, great we thought, only to find out it meant signing up to this place to take you off the jobseekers hands and there was NOT money for fork truck training! What a jip! In fact he's currently with an assessor for 6 months+ seekers. Well he missed a skills assessment. Hands up our fault, he failed his driving test again (seen as key in him getting a new job so he was quite down) and we got the dates mixed up, thinking it was the following week. So when he saw his assessor he had to fill a sheet in about why and it would be judged from that if he kept his money. Which of corse he said, doesnt matter anyway, am not getting any money. She was shocked! And then changed tack about how its all of use (obviously if the money doesnt keep you helping yourself what is DUR! I cant think!) But she knows nothing about her seeker! What does that flipping pc file say anyway! Anything helpful to her at all!

Thanks for the positive remarks tho. Its certainly a little insite into the agency market which unless your familier with you have no clue

anamenottaken

dpassmore wrote: »

Obviously you have not 'signed on' recently.

Many unemployed people ask the jobcentre immediately after they have lost their job about training schemes - unfortunately, there is just no money to fund them - well that is what I was continuously told when I used to sign on.

'We can retrain you' posters are emblazoned throughout my local jobcentre - just try getting 'retrained' or placed on a course - although I appreciate there will be some people who have received some form of training course that may or may not have assisted them in their job search.

I've never signed on.

But I know that training courses are not available unless someone has been registered as unemployed for the magic six months. (There are, or were, exceptions if you had a disability.) It was for that reason that I wrote, "Perhaps they wait until the six months are up and then send a candidate on a training course which tells them. "