Signing On

ghost_whistler

BreamoreBoy wrote: »

Many jobs are never advertised but are filled by networking/grapevine/word of mouth/call it what you like.

Jobs are either advertised internally or externally.

With respect there's a great deal of rubbish that people say about finding a job, just because they place so much importance on it. If employers want external applications they will advertise the fact. If such employers are small businesses they'll use the local press, jobcentre or stick an ad in the window. If they are bigger they might also use a website. Really, it's not rocket science! If you want staff what are you going to do: wait for people to come to you on the off chance they happen to be signing on the week you have a vacancy and are in the process of asking to speak to every bausiness ownere in the high street? Or are they going to advertise.

What you are referring to is the old adage of 'it's not what you know it's who you know' which is how most vacancies are filled - the job goes to a mate of the employer. So even if you trot out your cv and stuff it through the letterbox of every shop in town chances are it will end up in the bin and you'd be wasting your time. That's the hard reality that people don't want to address. But if a business wants you to apply for a vacancy it will advertise the fact.

Expecting the unemployed to go to every shop in the town centre and ask if they have vacancies is a massive and futile waste of time. And doing the same process in the same places each fortnight is even more so. Looking for a job is one thing, wasting time just to appease the anti-benefits brigade is quite another.

GEEGEE8

From what I remember the Job Centre say that you have to be prepared to travel 2hrs each way to a job every day. So, even if you won't do that then just say yes, otherwise you won't get your benefits.

Also, you can get help with travel costs I believe.

But don't pick a fight with the job centre over it, you won't win I'm afraid.

Good luck, it's not easy and it's never as easy as some people make out..

Loanranger

It's not the lack of transport that will consign you to a life on the dole but your bad attitude.
I have a definite whiff of Troll.

emsywoo123

Loanranger wrote: »

It's not the lack of transport that will consign you to a life on the dole but your bad attitude.
I have a definite whiff of Troll.

I thought that reading this thread too..........:cool:

McKneff

ghost_whistler wrote: »

This thread isn't about whether or not I can move to wherever jobs might be.

Actually, youre starting to irritate me,and probably others, youre acting like a spoiled pompous brat or should that be prat.

Im off, my time is too precious to waste on someone who does not seem to want to help himself.

ghost_whistler

GEEGEE8 wrote: »

From what I remember the Job Centre say that you have to be prepared to travel 2hrs each way to a job every day. So, even if you won't do that then just say yes, otherwise you won't get your benefits.

Also, you can get help with travel costs I believe.

But don't pick a fight with the job centre over it, you won't win I'm afraid.

Good luck, it's not easy and it's never as easy as some people make out..

being prepared to travel and being able to travel are two separate things. I really don't understand why people are fixating on this notion of applying for jobs in places the applicant can't get to, especially when it has nothing to do with the original question.

You can (or at least could) get help with travel costs to interviews if the interview is a certain distance away. They won't pay your expenses once you start a job - assuming you can convince the employer transport won' tbe an issue.

Believe me I'm not advocating starting trouble with anyone, least of all the jobcentre. But I have no intention of wasting my time for their benefit if I can help it.

Thanks.

ghost_whistler

Loanranger wrote: »

It's not the lack of transport that will consign you to a life on the dole but your bad attitude.
I have a definite whiff of Troll.

Perhaps you should change your brand of soap.

emsywoo123 wrote: »

I thought that reading this thread too..........:cool:

Maybe it's the same brand.

McKneff wrote: »

Actually, youre starting to irritate me,and probably others, youre acting like a spoiled pompous brat or should that be prat.

Im off, my time is too precious to waste on someone who does not seem to want to help himself.

brat or prat; it's a tough question.

There's only one way to find out....!

Seriously though, don't read what I say. Or, to put it another way: who's worse - the troll or the troll that responds?

Oldernotwiser

ghost_whistler wrote: »

I believe I did answer.

No you didn't, you just said that you could use the internet at home.

Seriously, this is just getting ridiculous. I cannot believe that someone who lives in a rural area without his own transport cannot find something to do in the town for a couple of hours once a fortnight.

SingleSue

So what is the distance you could travel...by any means (including walking)? And what is the average distance to the nearest town etc that would have employment?

How far away is the job centre you want to sign at?

Re applying for jobs, my son got his first job by going along asking at every place he came across....his employer hadn't actually thought about taking someone on but when my son presented himself in front of him, thought it might be a good idea (part time job seasonal). He is also close to getting another job with this method in one of the shops as he had dropped his CV in previously, been put on the list and then called once a vacancy came up.

Oldernotwiser

ghost_whistler wrote: »

Believe me I'm not advocating starting trouble with anyone, least of all the jobcentre. But I have no intention of wasting my time for their benefit if I can help it.

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It's your benefits you need to worry about!