Job seekers allowance and monster Jobs

wilson1973

Hi, I have been on employment support allowance for 4 months after an injury I'm now due to sign back on job seekers allowance and I hear things have changed and Monster jobs now run the website, could anyone advise me as how this system works and if I should sign up in terms of letting them see my activities on my pc,I'm a little concerned about my privacy although I’m a genuine job seeker, it’s a case of not trusting the powers that be, any help much appreciated

cornish_pastie

ive signed up to many job search sites, easy setup and upload cv with easy 1 click job and cover letter applications also direct to your phone with new jobs......But the new Universal Jobmatch is a JOKE!! the log in and password is SO complicated the jobs keep on being reposted with different dates and the distance of jobs just does not work.. i like to use my phone email with constant job up dates.. UJM is just to messed up... id advise on the other job search companys..

Gingernutty

I hate UJM.

Even if the ad doesn't state CV Library (Jobs Warehouse Only), the distance is out (Oxford is five miles from Wolverhampton?), the hours are screwed up (16 hours per week is NOT full time) or it's an agency advertising a job that they've stolen from an employer's website.

I'm applying for a job a day most days and it's without the help of that place.

wilson1973

Thanks people I can't help thinking there must be mp's with connections to some of these private companies i.e Monster,Atos or wouldn't be surprised if they have a job lined up in the future with them,The UJM site sounds like a fraudsters paradise,even with the old jsa website I was sure that temp agencies advertised the same jobs for months just to get people to travel to them so they could register them on there books for a job that didn't even exist,very frustrating.
I have read on forums that customers of UJM have been inundated with phone calls and e mails from marketing companies who appear to have gained there contact information via cv's that they had sent off,as personal data is valuable and these details can be sold on,I will certainly be revising my cv with an e mail address solely used for job purposes and I have a spare mobile which I will also use for contact

imatt

wilson1973 wrote: »

Thanks people I can't help thinking there must be mp's with connections to some of these private companies i.e Monster,Atos or wouldn't be surprised if they have a job lined up in the future with them,The UJM site sounds like a fraudsters paradise,even with the old jsa website I was sure that temp agencies advertised the same jobs for months just to get people to travel to them so they could register them on there books for a job that didn't even exist,very frustrating.
I have read on forums that customers of UJM have been inundated with phone calls and e mails from marketing companies who appear to have gained there contact information via cv's that they had sent off,as personal data is valuable and these details can be sold on,I will certainly be revising my cv with an e mail address solely used for job purposes and I have a spare mobile which I will also use for contact

You're not wrong. See Dave Blunkett, former Work and Pensions Secretary. It was Blunkett who changed the nature of the benefits system allowing companies such as A4e to make a killing in the W2W market. Not surprisingly Blunkett, was until very recently trousering up to £30k per year courtesy of A4e as a "business advisor".

Or perhaps John Reid, former Defence secretary working as a 'consultant' for G4s. The company was awarded a major defence contract just a few weeks after employing him as a consultant in 2008. Again perhaps not surprisingly, Reid was pocketing £50k a year offering 'strategic advice' to the company.

Reid:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161911/Security-firm-lands-MoD-job-months-John-Reid-joins-consultant.html#axzz2KbEBwkjA

Blunkett:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/01/david-blunkett-private-companies