Benefits changes from next year

Dunroamin

gay_guy wrote: »

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.

Not when you ignore helpful advice.

bloomingflower

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:

FBaby wrote: »

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

To be fair to the Op he has said that he is doing all he can to even get to an interview..it is not that easy....

When my husband was out of work beginning of last year (after previously working for a company for 8 years) he uploaded his CV for numerous jobs on every site he could think of.

More and more job seekers are now being encouraged by employers to use email to upload and submit their CV's for job applications.. (very rare now to be asked by employers to go to them directly hand deliver CV's and haven't come across many that do now.)

My husband found that this was rather soul destroying as he didn't so much as get a reply back from some employers. Waiting days on end for a reply and days can turn into weeks until you have to constantly chase up your applications.

My hubby had to chase up many and was shocked when one employer said to him "I am very sorry I could not reply back to you to say whether your application was successful or not as I am inundated with emails and applications for the position you have applied for and I don't have the time to go through all of them".

That was just one employer but he had to be chased up. Imagine a few employers not contacting you on any day,everyday? Employers don't bother to make any contact with you. Hard reality.

Where does that leave you?

My hubs eventually got lucky and is now working for a company since March 2012 but he would have walked on water and hot coals to find work, but employers have to at least meet us halfway.

Dunroamin

gay_guy wrote: »

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:

The fact that you say CV in the singular shows that you've missed the point of doing this properly.

miduck

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:

Are you using the spell check each time you tailor your cv, and for each covering letter?

Bogof_Babe

Forgive me OP, but spelling, punctuation and grammar don't seem to be your strongest points, going by your posts on here. Have you had your CV proof read, in case this is what is getting your job applications binned?

stargazer59

sammyjammy wrote: »

I work on the Universal Credit Programme. I can tell you now its coming, nothing will stop it. It would be political suicide. It only comes in in April for a very small number of claimants in a small area of the country.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/01/universal-credit-computer-failures

Heard on the news that the IT systems are not ready.

Russe11

sammyjammy wrote: »

40%? Care to provide some evidence for that?

well its what the BBC reported during a program investigating apprenticeship schemes.

In the main it was companines setting up training courses, getting the funding from the state, training the apprentices, falsifying the paper work then folding when the funding stopped and the jobs never materialised.

However it also showed how the big companies like supermarkets also took advantage of the state funding, by claiming that current employees did not have a qualification so could also get the apprenticeship qualification... hence why you can get apprenticeships in stuff like cleaning, shelf stacking and basic skills, these where not new jobs or taking on those leaving education.

So morrisions did it on a large scale and offered apprenticeships to current employees, then morrisions got the money if for having apprentices, which more than covered the cost of training and subsidised most of the wage costs.

Charityworker

stargazer59 wrote: »

https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/01/universal-credit-computer-failures

Heard on the news that the IT systems are not ready.

Yes the people who work in the benefit offices arnt even ready. Nobody knows what's going on and there's 3 months to go. The whole thing is going to be a complete shambles when its first started up and the UC regime won't be rolled out nationally because of it.

stargazer59

Charityworker wrote: »

Yes the people who work in the benefit offices arnt even ready. Nobody knows what's going on and there's 3 months to go. The whole thing is going to be a complete shambles when its first started up and the UC regime won't be rolled out nationally because of it.

If it is anything like CSA2 which still has not managed to get all CSA1 cases moved over after all this time (and CSA3 in the wings) i can only expect the roll out to be a disaster.

The_ICT_Engineer

stargazer59 wrote: »

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/01/universal-credit-computer-failures

Heard on the news that the IT systems are not ready.

This has been common knowledge in IT circles for months, I very much doubt if it would ever work reliable.