Grants for new job relocation

DBP

Afternoon chaps,

Just a quick bit of background, I'm 38 and lost a job in March, have been on JSA & housing benefit for just short of 6 months. I'm not your typical lazy git and apply for roughly 40 jobs per week (the jobs are out there but there are many more people applying for them now).

I live in Manchester and went for an interview in Nuneaton, which if I was successful, would require relocation, which I'm happy to do. They have suggested that if successful, they would assist with it. I'm one of five people they are considering for one role.

I want to be in a position where I can remove all the negatives and show I am the best candidate, so I have been checking around to see if there are any government grants or other assistance I could receive whereby I could fund my own relocation rather than them taking on the additional costs and risk.

Does anyone know of any?

phill99

You're getting ahead of yourself.

The potential employer will employ the person who they believe is the best person for the job. They have actored relocation costs into the equation and will be prepared to pay them to secure the right person.

You offering to relocate at nil costs to the e player won't sway them.

I'm not aware of any grants etc.

I would just wait for their response rather than getting ahead to much.

DBP

I fail to see how I am getting ahead of myself.

To sell yourself (as all job hunters should do) you have to negate trepidation and if it came to a straight choice of hiring someone who will cost you £xx,xxx salary + relocation costs and someone else who will just cost the salary, all other things being equal, they will opt for the person who will require the least investment.

As an employer in the past I know this is the case and I know it could prompt them to choose me over someone else, costs aside, it shows commitment on the employees side too.

Thanks for your input, but I have to say you're completely wrong.

phill99

No. You are completely wrong. The simple fact of the matter is that when people are employed there is no such thing as 'all things being equal'. No 2 people are alike in terms of experience, qualifications, personal qualities etc. So they will pick the person that is best suited to the job specification, personal specification etc.

The employer will want someone that will add dynamics to the role and help the company or organisation succeed for many years to come. Given the cost of employing someone, not just in terms of salary and pension but in terms of costs of premises, facility costs, training costs etc, which in many cases could easily be millions of pounds over a 10 or 15 year period, a £5k or £10k cost for removals etc now is the correct thing to do if it means getting the right person.

I can guarantee you that the decision won't be based on who has the cheapest removal costs.

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Hermia

I agree with phill99.

OP - at what point do you plan to tell the potential employer that you will fund your move yourself? If someone rang me up to tell me that I would think they sounded desperate/strange. Interviews often have to be so structured that it would be hard to suddenly bring that up in conversation. I moved across the country to get my current job and my location was never even referred to in the interview (presumably because they have to ask everyone the same questions etc).

jobbingmusician

Agreed again. It wouldn't impress me either if someone offered to pay their own costs - I would simply assume that they had relatives locally who could help.