Asked to look for 8 jobs a week

Dunroamin

maninthestreet wrote: »

Difficult to move if you are unemployed and only have benefits to live on.

You apply in other areas (like Aberdeen) and move when you're offered a job.

falko89

8 per week, I couldn't find 8 jobs a month out here in the sticks

falko89

Dunroamin wrote: »

You apply in other areas (like Aberdeen) and move when you're offered a job.

How do you move with no money and I'm pretty sure they won't give and advance on wages.

Dunroamin

falko89 wrote: »

How do you move with no money and I'm pretty sure they won't give and advance on wages.

You struggle to commute in for the first month and move when you get paid or you borrow from friends, relatives or the bank to fund the move or you sell your belongings. There's always a way if you're not too negative.;)

In the case of the OP, she says she has savings.

Pupnik

skintandscared wrote: »

You don't have to move house to work outside of your local village. Just get a local bus map and train map and apply for jobs in those vicinities too. I have worked at the same London City firm for 20 years but have lived in High Wycombe, Wembley, Portsmouth, Hertfordshire and now Kent and have commuted from all of them. The 2.5 hours each way from Portsmouth wasn't much fun, but you do what you have to!

This isn't always possible though, I used to live in a very small village and it was very limiting. There was no train station and morning buses would start at 7:30 going one way, 8:30 going the other (nearest town an hour away) and last bus home would be 10:30pm, and forget about Sundays. This meant that there was actually only one town I could get to in time for a 9am start, and no way I could work in a bar/pub with a last bus at a set time, and retail would require Sunday work. I was able to find a job a few villages away that I could cycle to, and did work in the closest town getting the early bus, but my options were certainly limited compared to if I lived in a town with rail access and direct buses to other towns.

I live and work in a town now and when I am jobhunting it is a little overwhelming to be able to search for so many towns which I can easily get to within an hour

OP if you have savings have you thought about getting a little moped or scooter? I think you can drive them with a provisional so you don't need a full driving license for them.

FATBALLZ

falko89 wrote: »

How do you move with no money and I'm pretty sure they won't give and advance on wages.

I moved with no money, I got a job in another area and then borrowed the money and paid it back ASAP once I started getting my wages. Where there's a will there's a way. In this instance it doesn't look like either are present.

morganedge

lucy03 wrote: »

The problem is that there are some people who will always be able to find a job, they may be social butterflies, very talented, very confident, well connected, out-going

That's so true.
I have a few friends who are complete social butterflies who naturally have so much confidence. As a result they completely shine in the job interview and They always get the job they want even when they are often far from the best candidate for the job. They just have the 'gift of the gab' and 'blag' their way through.
It could be argued that i'm academically smarter than them, but I am useless in job interviews, am not a good bull$hitter, and as a result, currently earn about 1/3 of what they earn, lol.

I know that's not really the topic being discussed, but I felt compelled to comment.

And yes, the JSA thing is just a big box-ticking game.
Do what you need to do to satisfy them, even if it means stretching the truth, all the while, doing your own thing to help you secure employment.
The worst thing you could do is be too honest. E.G Apply for only 6 jobs (because the others weren't suitable) and then tell the JC staff. You end up getting sanctioned, and the guy next to you who hasn't applied for one job, but knows how the system works and so pretends that he's applied for 20 jobs, has a stress-free ride.

Dunroamin

FATBALLZ wrote: »

I moved with no money, I got a job in another area and then borrowed the money and paid it back ASAP once I started getting my wages. Where there's a will there's a way. In this instance it doesn't look like either are present.

Most of us without long periods of unemployment have done it. Perhaps there's a connection?;)

SLAYFIELD1

.... Well I have got to do 15 jobs per week including spamming employers begging for work. The Jobcentre are getting to be very pedantic as of late!!!!

princesskasren

Pupnik wrote: »

This isn't always possible though, I used to live in a very small village and it was very limiting. There was no train station and morning buses would start at 7:30 going one way, 8:30 going the other (nearest town an hour away) and last bus home would be 10:30pm, and forget about Sundays. This meant that there was actually only one town I could get to in time for a 9am start, and no way I could work in a bar/pub with a last bus at a set time, and retail would require Sunday work. I was able to find a job a few villages away that I could cycle to, and did work in the closest town getting the early bus, but my options were certainly limited compared to if I lived in a town with rail access and direct buses to other towns.

I live and work in a town now and when I am jobhunting it is a little overwhelming to be able to search for so many towns which I can easily get to within an hour

OP if you have savings have you thought about getting a little moped or scooter? I think you can drive them with a provisional so you don't need a full driving license for them.

I am in the same boat...trying to get a retail job in Aberdeen and there are only 4 buses on a Sunday from my village intoo town to get the main bus and you have to be available to work weekends at a retail job...and of course the same with the hours early starts and late finishes. i did have a job in Aberdeen for a month but they kept putting me on late starts then early mornings. I would get home at 945pm and have to be up at 4am to catch the 5am bus...it was just horrific and I had to quit...that was when I decided to just limit my search to a local job for now.