students job seekers allowance

Uther

luv_or_h8_me wrote: »

Student Loans on there own you can live on.

My daughters loan £4582
rent for the year £3574,

That leaves about £1000 or £20 per week for everything else.

It is not possible to live on that.

The_One_Who

Uther wrote: »

My daughters loan £4582
rent for the year £3574,

That leaves about £1000 or £20 per week for everything else.

It is not possible to live on that.

Scots manage it every year. If you need the money that badly then there are jobs around such as call centre work, cleaning. They might be minimum wage but you'll take it if you need to.

Uther

The_One_Who wrote: »

Scots manage it every year. If you need the money that badly then there are jobs around such as call centre work, cleaning. They might be minimum wage but you'll take it if you need to.

This summer there are 100 students chasing every job.
There are very many in the same position, applied for 100's of jobs without success

The_One_Who

I believe the maximum loan for those in Scotland who are living in halls or renting is £4,600. These students are coming from families who will not be able to help. At all. All of these students manage to get by and manage to find jobs.

Uther

The_One_Who wrote: »

I believe the maximum loan for those in Scotland who are living in halls or renting is £4,600. These students are coming from families who will not be able to help. At all. All of these students manage to get by and manage to find jobs.

Not sure what you are implying.

I said she applied for hundreds of jobs, in the midlands where we live there are NO JOBS, there is a recession, what part of that do you not understand?

The_One_Who

I fully understand that there is a recession, but there are always jobs to apply for. Sometimes you just need to keep trying, and making sure your CV is half-decent. If it's not then some volunteering might be beneficial for a bit.

I'm saying that with so many students living on £4,500 (and less) during term-time then it must be possible to live on.

atypical

Uther wrote: »

Not sure what you are implying.

I said she applied for hundreds of jobs, in the midlands where we live there are NO JOBS, there is a recession, what part of that do you not understand?

I live in the Midlands. I have two 6 week temporary places, both are roughly 40 hour weeks. The first I organised back in Janurary the second I found at the Job Centre only weeks ago. There seems to be a contradiction in that you say she's applied for "hundreds of jobs" but that at the same time you say there are no jobs.

I don't mean to be condescending but the one way you can guarantee not to find a job is to approach it with the attitude you're displaying. Glass half full is the way to go about it.

boldaslove

i admire the positive attitude of some posters on here, but simply saying if you want a job enough you will get one is not true at all. it's tough out there at the moment, i signed on last week and the advisor was telling me she's having to send people away with no jobs to look at. i have handed out hundreds upon hundreds of cvs over a long period of time, every type of job you could think of, ranging from bar work, to agency staff, to dressing up as a giant burrito to hand out leaflets. not one single phone call. i know so many people in the same situation regardless of background.

it's unfair to start wagging fingers at people just because they're dismayed by the job market. it's depressing being knocked back from so many jobs and you eventually start questioning your own worth. it's not nice knowing you aren't contributing to society when you really want to. stop blaming each other. it's the banks who are the baddies!

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Fire_Fox

boldaslove wrote: »

i admire the positive attitude of some posters on here, but simply saying if you want a job enough you will get one is not true at all. it's tough out there at the moment, i signed on last week and the advisor was telling me she's having to send people away with no jobs to look at. i have handed out hundreds upon hundreds of cvs over a long period of time, every type of job you could think of, ranging from bar work, to agency staff, to dressing up as a giant burrito to hand out leaflets. not one single phone call. i know so many people in the same situation regardless of background.

If you are applying for jobs that actually exist and not getting so much as a call back then your covering letter is not up to scratch. Get some help on this from your university careers service or local Connexions office or post it on here (personal details removed) and we can give you constructive criticism.

I worked through the last recession in East London and am working through this one in Bradford. Even in better times these are areas of high unemployment.