Hubby on jsa does he HAVE to do learn direct courses?

princessdon

nannytone wrote: »

so if he didnt need the money... why sign on and have to do as he was told?

Could be the same reason my hubby signed on (even though money was nill from JSA) to get £3000 per month income protection that we had paid for over the previous 20 years.

Many insurances wont pay out without the JSA paperwork, so often people sign on when they don't need to or would rather not.

tokenfield

nannytone wrote: »

so if he didnt need the money... why sign on and have to do as he was told?

errr I thought I had explained that - - he was only interested in receiving a few quid a week until the right job popped up.

sammyjammy

tokenfield wrote: »

errr I thought I had explained that - - he was only interested in receiving a few quid a week until the right job popped up.

Well that's his perogative but to have got that money he had to jump through the hoops the governement says he must. It's not something for nothing!

dibuzz

My son had to go on a 2 week basic computer skill course when he was on JSA.
He got his bus fares refunded to and from the job centre and they were taken to another town in a minibus so its worth asking if there is anything similar in place.
As he has a degree in computer science it was a complete waste of time and he knew far more than the person running the course but had to go or be sanctioned, it's just what happens if you want to claim JSA.

Dunroamin

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

If you're so good at writing a CV, then why are you only working for the DWP or a one of the work provider firms?

What's wrong with working for the DWP?

BurnleyBob

Who?_me? wrote: »

Just because he has a first in english, doesn't mean to say he can write an excellent CV, a CV that the employers will look at for more than 30seconds. In my courses (I deliver these dreaded CV courses) I have a cartoon of someone saying "I don't understand, I have all the qualifications but didn't get the job", because they don't have the employablity skills or be able to put together a CV that the employer is going to read. If you see on UJM, there is no room for a coveing letter, so your CV has to include a personal profile section, which will make up for the lack of letter. Its amazing how many don't have this on, or change it to suit the job.
I have had people on my courses who have excellent qualifications - and their CV lists all of these but says nothing that is relevant to the job they are looking for and how their skills fit. There is no such thing as a perfect cv, but someone else to look at your CV who doesn't know you is a worth while excersise. At the end of the day, if they do have a suitable CV (and many do) when they come on the course, they can help the tutor / others on the course to do their letters and CVs, which they can put on their CV!

Something tells me it would be an awful long time before I would seek your advice about compiling a CV.

sulkisu

tokenfield wrote: »

It would seem so.

A single young solicitor friend (32) of the family decided that the money would be far better as an employee in Central London, than dealing with wills for OAP's in his one man practice.
He closed the business down and signed on claiming JSA whilst waiting for the right opportunity to come up (which it did some months later). He was told all sorts that he must do, one was attending a course in helping him to complete a CV (as if he needed it - he has a 1st in English as well as Law).

Assuming this is true, he would have been sanctioned, surely?

xylophone

an awful long time before I would seek your advice about compiling a CV.

Awfully long time.....? Adverb (awfully) modifying adjective (long).

Unless you mean that the time would be awful as well as long... (long and awful used adjectivally).:)

tokenfield

dibuzz wrote: »

My son had to go on a 2 week basic computer skill course when he was on JSA.
He got his bus fares refunded to and from the job centre and they were taken to another town in a minibus so its worth asking if there is anything similar in place.
As he has a degree in computer science it was a complete waste of time and he knew far more than the person running the course but had to go or be sanctioned, it's just what happens if you want to claim JSA.

Crazy isn't it?

The bunch that run this scheme and the DWP are no different to the officers in charge on the WW1 battlefields.

"Lads, you have to go from here to there, walk in a line and keep together - remember walk don't run. But Sir, they have machine guns!! I know they have but this is the way it has always been done in the British Army!"

tokenfield

Dunroamin wrote: »

What's wrong with working for the DWP?

Cough!!Splutter!!

Many moons ago it used to be called the Department of Health & Social Security.

In those days anybody that wanted to get on in their career with the Civil Service, refused point blank to entertain the idea of being posted to that department.

It was considered to be the 'pits'

When you passed your internal exams you were given choices as to which department you would like - the higher in the list of passes, the more choice. The Foreign Office, Diplomatic Office, Min of Agg, Inland Revenue, and such like were quickly snapped up, leaving those at the bottom of the pass list with the DHSS.

They even had a system of getting rid of useless and ineffective staff - they promoted them and moved them onto some other unsuspecting office!

Even today, any mention of the new name - DWP - still draws a sharp intake of breath from my ex colleagues when we meet up.

In all of my years I cannot remember one person that actually volunteered to join the DHSS/DWP!