Job Seekers Allowance - Activly seeking work

pmaragh

When you sign on you have to fill out the looking for work booklet, which you have to fill out and write what you done to find work. What happens if you can't find any jobs to apply for will your jsa be stopped. Can you put down looked on jsa website - no jobs found- look again tomorrow, will this be ok to get the jsa payment.

Thanks

Paul

moneysavingkitten

They will probably suggest you write speculative letters to employers, where you write to an employer, tell them what you can do, ask if they have any job going and ask them if not to keep you CV on file.

I don't know what the official line on this bit is, but more often than not though, you can probably find jobs to apply for on different websites, even if they are a bit out of your skill set. You probably won't get the jobs if you don't have the skills for them, but at least you are showing willing.

agrinnall

Your Job Seekers agreement will say what you need to do in each signing period in order to get your JSA. When I signed on a couple of years ago mine did say that I had to apply for at least 2 jobs each week, but this time I just have to be checking the jobcentreplus vacancies and other websites 3 times a week. I assume they tailor the agreement to the type of work you are looking for, and if they think there are jobs that you can apply for then they will say so.

lady1964

Hi,
I've been signing on since August and when I fill in my booklet, I put that I've searched the job centre website and if there's nothing on it that I can apply for, I write that, and I also write 'check each day' in the 'what will I do next' box. I also write down when I send my CV off for a job, search online in the local paper and when I search the likes of Reed, Totaljobs.
Each time I've signed on, they look at my book and tell me I'm doing everything I need to be doing. I have also written down when I've had notification that my application hasn't been successful.

dookar

pmaragh wrote: »

Can you put down looked on jsa website - no jobs found- look again tomorrow, will this be ok to get the jsa payment.

You can and it would be perfectly acceptable but if it continues to happen then it would cease to be considered a step

dseventy

What jobs are you are looking for that you can't find?

Are you restricting yourself to one sector/town?

D70

PoorCharleyBear

Job centre website has very few jobs compared to the amount out there in the wide world.

If you are serious about getting a job (which your question suggests you are not) you will need to try all options- local papers, lots of job websites, speculative applications etc.

Before I got my job I was applying for between 20-40 jobs per week....ups your chance of getting a job.

Owain_Moneysaver

You really need to try and get at least one application (to an advertised job, or speculative to an employer) per signing period. This makes it less likely they will force you to apply for something you don't want to apply for. If you don't apply for something you are told to, you can be sanctioned.

Other things you should consider, even though they don't go on your Jobseekers Agreement, are doing voluntary work to get experience in a sector, and doing some part time or short courses at a college (which often have a fee waiver scheme for benefits claimants)

mum_2_ellis

You can ring Jobseeker direct who can do a jobsearch for you

brightonman123

show that you are making an effort, even if just checking job listing sites, reading papers, asking local shops / further afield etc..

i think they require 3 actions a week, so expect 6.. so i try to do at least 20 or so 'searches' a week, to be safe..

one of them must pay off!