job centre and data protection

MissSarah1972

red_eye wrote: »

being a jobs worth I guess. She refered me to a decision maker for writing no vacancy's a few times on my job search lol
some are nice and give you a print out if you missed a vacancy

LOL you wrote no vacancies on your job search? Why? You have to apply for jobs every week no matter what they are to be honest.

Give you a print of of what?

Elvisia

I had to send them copies of all my financial statements when I was being investigated, with all my personal info. They managed to lose three lots of it, in the end I threatened them with my MP and one lot was COURIERED back to my house - god knows that that cost.

I was having a session with my advisor who had found a load of jobs on their database and said they'd print them out, they went over to the printer and gave the pile to me and I stupidly didn't check them. When I got home I found out they'd given me documents someone else had obviously been printing out, with all the personal details of another client. When asked whether I had applied for the jobs they had given me I said no, waited while they geared up their "sanctioning" face then said they had broken the Data Protection Act and no more was said about their (stupid) jobs.

I really gave up with it, they must just store the stuff up their bottoms as god knows where else it goes.

red_eye

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

LOL you wrote no vacancies on your job search? Why? You have to apply for jobs every week no matter what they are to be honest.

Give you a print of of what?

some of the sites that I have to check like monster all the vacancy's are out of town or for a position that I have no qualification for or experience in. so my sheet has 5-10 job centre applications and no vacancy for monster.

the helpful advisers print out vacancy's that might have been missed and give you a telling off.

MissSarah1972

red_eye wrote: »

some of the sites that I have to check like monster all the vacancy's are out of town or for a position that I have no qualification for or experience in. so my sheet has 5-10 job centre applications and no vacancy for monster.

the helpful advisers print out vacancy's that might have been missed and give you a telling off.

What? You are listing sites you look on and stating 'no vacancy'? Really?

They tell you off for missing a job? The screen the adviser sees is not the same as the site online.

You seem to have a very odd job search.

red_eye

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

What? You are listing sites you look on and stating 'no vacancy'? Really?

They tell you off for missing a job? The screen the adviser sees is not the same as the site online.

You seem to have a very odd job search.

yeah they have changed from the booklet with a minimum of three job searches to a sheet of paper with a minium of 20 things you did to look for work. There were two days there are no vacancy's on job centre site that fit the three job types I have plus the ones from monster and job site.

well its up to the decision maker to decide. its not like I can't top up my NI credits for a year

MissSarah1972

red_eye wrote: »

yeah they have changed from the booklet with a minimum of three job searches to a sheet of paper with a minium of 20 things you did to look for work. There were two days there are no vacancy's on job centre site that fit the three job types I have plus the ones from monster and job site.

well its up to the decision maker to decide. its not like I can't top up my NI credits for a year

You have signed a new job seekers agreement saying you are going to do 20 things a week to look for work?

Are you sure this is not just a photo copy of the booklet you used to fill in as they are short on those so they photo copy them? Normally 4 sides of paper.


You can not have a 'no vacancy' situation I don't think.

persa

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

What? You are listing sites you look on and stating 'no vacancy'? Really?

I used to do this when I was signing on, to prove that I had been looking, but there just wasn't anything out there that I was qualified to do. Thankfully, I found a suitable job before I reached the deadline for having to expand my job search and look for everything and anything.

MissSarah1972

persa wrote: »

I used to do this when I was signing on, to prove that I had been looking, but there just wasn't anything out there that I was qualified to do. Thankfully, I found a suitable job before I reached the deadline for having to expand my job search and look for everything and anything.

Now you have to apply for work and you can not pretend you have been looking. You do not need any qualifications for shop work.

red_eye

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

You have signed a new job seekers agreement saying you are going to do 20 things a week to look for work?

Are you sure this is not just a photo copy of the booklet you used to fill in as they are short on those so they photo copy them? Normally 4 sides of paper.


You can not have a 'no vacancy' situation I don't think.

No I was on the booklet but they have change it to a single sheet. there was a day were there were no vacancies for the job types in my agreement, and monster only list jobs that are unsuitable for me for my sector and the hours I can work so I have time to drop of/pick up my son from nursery when needed that are holding me back.
So if you dont put down that you looked or put no vacancies you get refered to a decision maker. Better of lying, or apply for jobs that are not sutible..........oh wait I got screwed at for applying for a job that had "need M.O.T smart card" which I havent got.

I really need to find another way to collect these NI stamps, how do housewives looking after kids manage

DCFC79

What about voluntry work ?
You tried looking on do it.org site ?

Yes you wont get paid for it but you would be doing something and surely it could fit around the nursery.