Work Programme Employability Skills "Course" - LOSING THE WILL TO LIVE!!!

AP007

Macrae88 wrote: »

Sarina Russo Job Access

I've been there for 8ish months.

Never heard of them and what did you do for the 1st 8 mths?

Macrae88

AP007 wrote: »

Never heard of them and what did you do for the 1st 8 mths?

All I've done up until now is go and see an advisor every other week. They've looked at my CV, which they said was 'great'. And they referred me to a 30 minute interview techniques meeting at the national careers service.

AP007

Macrae88 wrote: »

All I've done up until now is go and see an advisor every other week. They've looked at my CV, which they said was 'great'. And they referred me to a 30 minute interview techniques meeting at the national careers service.

More than I did for 2 years there

I can tell you know the WP is a waste of time for those how have had a career and have a number of years experience.

They only can help drunks, drug addicts, people out of prison, people who have been fired and people who don't want to work.

Genuine people who spend every day looking for work they do not know what to do with you.

They should have advisors from different specialisms but they are not that specialist at all. In fact no one at my old WP had any accounts knowledge at all and had no idea even what it was I did. I had to explain to one advisor what Purchase Ledger was!!!

Vincent_Buenisedes

Macrae88 wrote: »

I wish places like this would use some common sense, I have a degree, so surely I must be pretty literate. My degree also happens to be in engineering, which is pretty maths heavy, so surely I've also got rather good numeracy skills.

I may just fill some of the questions with nonsense and fail on purpose, there's no way it's going on my CV anyway. It would be like sticking "dunce" on my CV. And if I failed maybe the course teaching would be looked into.

You have a degree in engineering and you cannot find a job?

ohreally

You were in a job 2 months ago

Macrae88 wrote: »

I'd quite like to move out of my mothers house in the next couple of years, the problem is my job pays £15,000 and where I live houses are quite expensive (Warwickshire).

so how are you on the WP at this point?


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4644161

Macrae88

Vincent_Buenisedes wrote: »

You have a degree in Engineering and you cannot find a job?

Nope. I've had quite a few interview, I get between 2 and 4 per month, not all in engineering though. All of my feedback says something along the lines of: "you performed well in your interview, however we have decided to go with someone who more closely fits what we're looking for."

I got an upper second class honours degree (2:1) by the way. They keep showing on the news how manufacturing is on the rise. However it's nearly entirely workshop work. I wouldn't have the faintest idea of what to do in one.

Macrae88

ohreally wrote: »

You were in a job 2 months ago

so how are you on the WP at this point?


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4644161

As I've already explained in another thread I was jumping the gun on that one, assuming I'd get the job. And I wanted to get some advice on how viable it would be to get a shared ownership house on that salary. If I'd put that I didn't have the job yet, I doubt I would have gotten the replies I was looking for.

Southend1

Employability is the latest buzzword. It's big in universities these days too.

The whole concept is a clever but subtle way of making people believe it's entirely their own fault if they can't get a job.

Yes skills in CV writing, interview technique etc are important but why won't politicians and business leaders accept they have a huge part to play by providing decent jobs for all?

AP007

Southend1 wrote: »

Employability is the latest buzzword. It's big in universities these days too.

The whole concept is a clever but subtle way of making people believe it's entirely their own fault if they can't get a job.

Yes skills in CV writing, interview technique etc are important but why won't politicians and business leaders accept they have a huge part to play by providing decent jobs for all?

Because at a large % of people out there think the unemployed are so as they either...........

1. don't want to work
or
2. have a major barrier to employment

Both of which are not true for the majority of people.

jacques_chirac

Macrae88 wrote: »

I wish places like this would use some common sense, I have a degree, so surely I must be pretty literate. My degree also happens to be in engineering, which is pretty maths heavy, so surely I've also got rather good numeracy skills.

I may just fill some of the questions with nonsense and fail on purpose, there's no way it's going on my CV anyway. It would be like sticking "dunce" on my CV. And if I failed maybe the course teaching would be looked into.

Don't do this. I understand that this course is unhelpful to you, but go along with it, you won't be there for long. Intentionally putting nonsense on the work could well result in a doubt on your claim - it's not worth the hassle.