Mistreated at job centre - filing a complaint.

SilverFoxe

She won't hate you, what she will be is frightened of you!

The jobs of such people are also very much at risk at the moment. You can request that you do not deal with a certain individual if they upset you. I did just this a couple of years ago after I left the job centre in tears. They do listen.

Have you requested a complaint form?

diable

Just remind her that she may be sitting in your chair once her contract is up.

MissMotivation

Just think of it this way, your "Job" at the moment is searching out vacancies, applying for vacancies and researching companies. Looking on a couple of websites and talking about working in the NHS is not enough. Structure your day around searching for jobs, getting your CV in order, recording what you have done to find a job and then you won't have any trouble.

I'm not saying the Woman was right in the way she spoke to you but seriously you need to make much more effort. Even people with experience are finding it difficult to get employment at the minute.

spugzbunny

I've been in your situation re straight out of Uni and no experience. What I would suggest is the following:

1. Print out maybe 10 - 20 CVs plus the same in cover letters (a brief cover-all type) plus take a pen and pad of paper. Start at one end of town and literally go into every shop, bar, restaurant and similar business that you can.

2. Contact every single agency in the paper. Call them (no email - it will get lost).

3. Jobs fares?

4. Try online but I find it less helpful.

5. Papers - apply for everything. It doesn't matter if you think you can do it. (obviously there are exceptions to this.)

6. Get some volunteer work in. It will also help with depression. Working in a charty shop will give you shop experience etc.

7. All major retailers like McDonalds, Argos, Tesco.

8. Factory work

they might not be ideal jobs but it is all about experience. Nothing is really that bad and if you can stick to it for a few weeks you have something on your CV

Good luck and don't let other people get you down. They know nothing about you except the 5 mins they spend with you a day.

SilverFoxe

spugzbunny wrote: »

I've been in your situation re straight out of Uni and no experience. What I would suggest is the following:

1.

Baited breath

newlywed

At the job center I got told off for being 5 minutes too early! Yes they want proof, they want to make sure you are making efforts to get a job. Some don't speak to you very nicely, some presume you are there just for free handouts, instantly think the worst of you without finding out your circumstances, but some are really nice and sympathetic.

I told several advisers I would do anything to not have to come here - and they agreed!!! Many I spoke to had been unemployed for some time before taking the job but were still looking for another job.

But think of the sorts of people they see day in day out - those determined not to work, those redundant after years of work now losing self confidence, depressed, stressed about finances..... having to work in those places.... having to suggest jobs to people they don't think will have much change of getting them whether that's because they are over or under qualified....


I turned up some weeks (having worked for 20 years and signed on for the first time after redundancy) and got told no there's no jobs on our system for you at all!


At a group session we were also told that spending 1 hour a day job seeking isn't enough, that if you really want to get a job and get out of the job center you need to spend more time than that every single day looking for a job.

Maybe the way she said it was wrong, maybe it was a bad day. But was the advice valid

Blobby8_2

Heart_Shaped_Diamond wrote: »

Why are you making the assumption that if I carry on the way I am, I will fail? What am I doing, to your knowledge, wrong? even if you work hard to find a job nobody is looking to hire anybody - you just go around in circles in the same places day after day after day.

That to me sniffs of someone who doesnt feel inclined towards a daily search for work, you may indeed go round and round and never ever get a job, but you will not do yourself any harm by presenting yourself as a young, keen, hardworker who is LOOKING for work.

WolfSong2000

Heart_Shaped_Diamond wrote: »

Why are you making the assumption that if I carry on the way I am, I will fail? What am I doing, to your knowledge, wrong?

In my own opinion, I'd say you're being overly negative...yes, getting a job is a challenge and even qualified people will face a lot of knock backs. So - you can either sit there and go on about how difficult it is, and how nasty people or being, or you can see jobfinding as a challenge and rise to it.

Everyone, myself included, has had to deal with less than savoury people. It's part of life. Don't let it get to you.

As for job seeking - if you're handing your CV into a store, ask to see the manager, explain to them why you're there and why you want the job and *then* hand over your CV. If you're friendly and positive, they'll be more likely to pay attention and your CV is less likely to get binned.

Also, go over your CV - can someone at the job centre do that with you? Make sure it's highlighting all your positive points. Even with something like your past illnesses - yes, you had them, but you also overcame them. That shows a lot of strength and determination.

In the meantime, could you do some voluntary work? It'd give you work experience, which would be invaluable.

spugzbunny

SilverFoxe wrote: »

Baited breath

twitchy fingers!

MrC_Beds

MrRedundant wrote: »

You are an adult. Maybe your refusal to act like one and crying to daddy explains a lot.

Tell your father to butt out and you will fight your own battles and find your own job.

This sort of thing is doing you no favours. Who is going to employ someone incapable of doing stuff themselves.

Ah the troll's troll - Mr Redundant...yawn.

Funnily enough, I think the reason why you rush from thread to thread dishing out the vitriol like a lame internet hard man, is because your daddy didn't pay you enough attention as child.