After the Work Programme

donnajunkie

simson3325 wrote: »

you cant spend 5 hours on your computer ,every day searching for jobs , it will drive you mad,
every day theres only a few more jobs added,to the the job sites,so then what.search all the old jobs again ?

common sense alert! common sense alert!

jacques_chirac

donnajunkie wrote: »

theres no point in doing anymore for the jc than required. you can do more seperately if you wish like i do. i suspect those who spend 8 hours a day 7 days a week looking are in the minority.

No, you should be doing it for yourself. No one has suggested you need to be seeking work for 56 hours each week, but you should certainly be doing more than the bare minimum, especially when you have been claiming for as long as you have.

donnajunkie

jacques_chirac wrote: »

No one has suggested you need to be seeking work for 56 hours each week,

i know one person who will disagree with you here.

donnajunkie

jacques_chirac wrote: »

but you should certainly be doing more than the bare minimum, especially when you have been claiming for as long as you have.

how much a person should do has nothing to do with how long they have been claiming. and theres no need to throw in a personal attack.

AP007

simson3325 wrote: »

you cant spend 5 hours on your computer ,every day searching for jobs , it will drive you mad,
every day theres only a few more jobs added,to the the job sites,so then what.search all the old jobs again ?

I am mental!! LOL

Nope I disagree as every hour there are new jobs advertised so I read all of them that come up in my search and I use over 30 sites a day.

Johnnytwostep

Some people clearly don't want a job if doing just the bare minimum to claim JSA.

simson3325

im not bothered about a job im 56yrs old worked all my life and got nowt to show for it,now im tired and want to rest.

(my sons been on my laptop,little b----r)

gk1980

It's a set time of job search *related*activity. That time could be a mixture of job searching, the amount of time it takes to apply for a job (if an application is taking 5 minutes to go through the job description, person spec, adapt your CV and write a cover letter or even fill in an application form, surely that's not going to be a very effective application) as well as other things that are going to help getting back in the labour market such as training, refreshing skills on things like excel or other relevant software packages, researching companies for prospective approaches and interviews. The list of jobseeking type things people could do with their time as a jobseeker isn't by any stretch exhaustive. I've got one customer who said that he found some instructive videos on YouTube which he was working through which, given his job goals I thought was a really good cheap way of doing what he is doing.

donnajunkie

Johnnytwostep wrote: »

Some people clearly don't want a job if doing just the bare minimum to claim JSA.

you cant assume you know what people want. if they are just doing the bare minimum and that is a small amount you can say they are making a poor decision which could be down to not wanting to work.

Jerry_Mander

simson3325 wrote: »

im not bothered about a job im 56yrs old worked all my life and got nowt to show for it,now im tired and want to rest.

Given that the state retirement age will probably be 70 by the time you retire you've got a ways to go yet!