The Work Programme New Thread

Mara69

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Very supportive- perhaps come back when your son has got a job,from all this support hes getting.

Thought I'd just pop back to update you all. My son now has a job - thanks to the help he received from the job centre and others. He has been given his fares for a month, plus his back to work bonus and is looking forward to a fat wage packet just in time for Christmas.

dandelionclock30

Best wishes to your son I hope he enjoys his job and spending his wages.

KevInChester

Managed to get a job myself, I also removed all rights from the work programme to claim an outcome. Still when I called the other day to inform them I wouldn't be attending my next 'review', they tried to trick the employers name out of me. It ain't happening. They did nothing but demoralise and depress me.

red_devil

they keep you waiting ages if you were paying them you would have sacked them.

EndlessStruggle

My work programme are moving office at the end of the month from the middle of an out of town business centre into the town centre so that will mean less travelling. My adviser left this week for another job so I've got a new one.

donnajunkie

KevInChester wrote: »

Managed to get a job myself, I also removed all rights from the work programme to claim an outcome. Still when I called the other day to inform them I wouldn't be attending my next 'review', they tried to trick the employers name out of me. It ain't happening. They did nothing but demoralise and depress me.

why did you even bother to tell them you wont be in?

looby75

EndlessStruggle wrote: »

My work programme are moving office at the end of the month from the middle of an out of town business centre into the town centre so that will mean less travelling. My adviser left this week for another job so I've got a new one.

mines done the opposite and moved out of town to the middle of nowhere. It's going to take me 45 mins and cost £7 to get there now (I know I can claim it back but its a fair chunk to pull out upfront.)

donnajunkie

looby75 wrote: »

mines done the opposite and moved out of town to the middle of nowhere. It's going to take me 45 mins and cost £7 to get there now (I know I can claim it back but its a fair chunk to pull out upfront.)

they have always had the sense to locate themselves close to town centres around here. in this area there are 2 providers. there is one in this town and one in a neighbouring town. a daft thing the jobcentre does is it often refers people from one town to the provider in the other town instead of refering them to the provider in their own town. this means higher travel costs for the taxpayer. it shows us that inconveniencing unemployed people is a higher priority to them than what value for money to the taxpayer is.

EndlessStruggle

Yeah mine costs £10 to get to and as mine don't do return tickets I can only claim for going there, have to claim on next appointment for way back and takes over 2 hours to get there as the buses don't match up. They do have limited appointments in a more local town but they are limited as they see ESA clients too and prefer them not to have to do the longer journey. Will see when I change adviser. Got an interview so fingers crossed.

oneofmillions768

Have had the pleasure of being on Ingeus's books for a few months and last week they asked me to start using a portal and use it as my main point for job searching online. When you first login with your supplied username/password there are three tabs to choose from, Your job matches/Your CVs/Advice and Tips

Website is;
<h**ps://portal.ingeusworks.co.uk/users/login>

Is anybody else using this portal?

Apparently the website is supposed to bring back Job Matches of jobs which are of interest. Since last week, I've checked every day and it comes up with the following message;'

"Your list of job matches is empty"

Even though the system apparently uses the SOC codes to search for jobs (I've supplied 20 or so to my advisor who told me he added them), not one result. There software is supposed to search various job sites (eg Indeed) and bring back results to match the SOC codes which represent the jobs your interested in. I've even manually went to various job sites which the system is supposed to use and enter the SOC code manually to see if results occur...and guess what....lots appear.

So basically in a nutshell, Ingeus are telling you to use a job portal which they have themselves setup, even though its not fit for purpose. Absolute useless......

On a side note, am wondering if results will magically appear once the Universal Jobmatch via the Job Centre Plus website goes online. My advisor told me that the Ingeus portal is a totally separate thing and not connected to the Universal Jobmatch so we will see on Monday.

If they are somehow linked up and remember they aren't supposed to, anybody know what the Data Protection implications would be?