Benefits changes from next year

sammyjammy

FBaby wrote: »

Job searching is not just about quantity but quality. Have you stopped for one second and asked yourself why it might be that despite applying to so many jobs, you never get one invite for an interview, and realise that if that is the case, you need to look into changing things rather than blaming the economy or whatever else.

Poor quality applications get thrown out immediately, so if that is your problem, continuing sending the same kind of applications is not going to get you a job.

You need to re-evaluate what is going wrong. It can either be three things if you are indeed applying to so many posts:
- you are applying for jobs you are not qualified or do not have the experience to perform
- your work/education history is poor for any position
- your applications are not good quality

For any of these reasons, you can make some changes. Maybe instead of assuming you will be on benefits for many more months to come and spend your energy complaining about changes that might only affect you at some stage, you could review the above and make changes you can control.

Thanks FBaby, saved me the trouble

gay_guy

FBaby wrote: »

Job searching is not just about quantity but quality. Have you stopped for one second and asked yourself why it might be that despite applying to so many jobs, you never get one invite for an interview, and realise that if that is the case, you need to look into changing things rather than blaming the economy or whatever else.

Poor quality applications get thrown out immediately, so if that is your problem, continuing sending the same kind of applications is not going to get you a job.

You need to re-evaluate what is going wrong. It can either be three things if you are indeed applying to so many posts:
- you are applying for jobs you are not qualified or do not have the experience to perform
- your work/education history is poor for any position
- your applications are not good quality

For any of these reasons, you can make some changes. Maybe instead of assuming you will be on benefits for many more months to come and spend your energy complaining about changes that might only affect you at some stage, you could review the above and make changes you can control.

Excuse me but my cv is perfect thank you, my advicer at the work programme helped me with it.

God I have only just joined this site and I can't believe I am getting accused of work shy.

There is some rude people on here !!!!!!! :mad:

MissMoneypenny

gay_guy wrote: »

Excuse me but my cv is perfect thank you, my advicer at the work programme helped me with it.

Fit your CV to the job you apply for. Unless you have just graduated with a good degree from Cambridge or Warwick universities, your CV will need to be tweaked for each type of job.

The people who work for the work programmes are quite low skilled/low waged and are probably on welfare top ups themselves. Try sending your CV to an agency that deals with the type of work you can do; then phone them and ask them to give you some CV tips.

MissMoneypenny

GMbabies wrote: »

David Cameron: we’ll help the strivers, not welfare claimants

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9770922/David-Cameron-well-help-the-strivers-not-welfare-claimants.html

Basically, not just JSA or ESA 'scroungers' but those that works but claims wtc, child benefit, HB/CT, all are welfare [STRIKE]claimants[/STRIKE] 'scroungers'.

They are all income based welfare payments, as is Child Tax Credits too. Child Benefit is soon to become an income based welfare payment too. Yet we ofter see posts on here moaning about those who claim welfare when they are out of work or sick, when often those moaners are claiming more in welfare payments themselves with their tax credits!

Tax Credits are a benefit trap and were rightly called that by some of the Labour MPs' when Blair/Brown first brought them in to be a "vote winner".

Companies pay less wages as welfare tops up the wages and then there are those parents' who do as little as they can to "maximise their tax credits" as they use their children as cash cows.

The problem is that many put their childrens' tax credits into the family pot and then when that child leaves home, their welfare paymets drop and the parents' then struggle to survive. We see many posts on here asking what extra welfare payments they can now claim because their CTC have stopped as their child has left education.

UC will help get those parents back into working enough hours to support themsleves while their children are still at school, ready for when their child leaves education.

Housing was a benefit trap too. The last government raised the rents with their LHA idea and this government will lower those payments in real terms. We can't do much about those in negative equity, but it was a really stupid idea for Brown to lower the interest rates when the house pries started to fall in 2005. It may have created a "feel good" factor then by pushing up house prices, but now those people are paying the price with negative equity.

Morlock

sammyjammy wrote: »

40%? Care to provide some evidence for that?

"Nearly 40%" of Morrisons staff are apprentices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17584151

Dunroamin

gay_guy wrote: »

Excuse me but my cv is perfect thank you, my advicer at the work programme helped me with it.
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If you're using the same CV for all your applications then it's far from perfect, as the lack of positive response to it shows. You should be tailoring your CV to individual jobs or to different employment areas at the very least.

FBaby

gay_guy wrote: »

Excuse me but my cv is perfect thank you, my advicer at the work programme helped me with it.

God I have only just joined this site and I can't believe I am getting accused of work shy.

There is some rude people on here !!!!!!! :mad:

So what is your explanation for getting no interviews depsite all those jobs you apply for?

sammyjammy

Morlock wrote: »

"Nearly 40%" of Morrisons staff are apprentices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17584151

Thanks, interesting but perhaps not as bad a thing as you implied in your post. The video says many of these apprentices are existing employees and take an average of six months to undertake the apprenticeship. So actually it just means Morrisons take training seriously amongst their staff and are trying to upskill them.

gay_guy

FBaby wrote: »

So what is your explanation for getting no interviews depsite all those jobs you apply for?

You have heard about the recession right? company's going bust !!!

Just because you got work (If you got a job) don't have a go at honest Jobseeker like me as I would love for you to be on the dole like rest of us and see how you cope with hardship then you will understand :mad:

I would love to have a Job tomorrow but its not that simple is it.

gay_guy

Dunroamin wrote: »

If you're using the same CV for all your applications then it's far from perfect, as the lack of positive response to it shows. You should be tailoring your CV to individual jobs or to different employment areas at the very least.

Excuse me but have you seen my cv? no you haven't so don't have a go at me when you haven't see it !!! :mad: