Universal Jobmatch full of spam

drbraindead

Since the new revamp of the Job Centre Plus search website, it has now been a victim of what I would consider spam.

Flooded with jobs from sites like CV Library (Job Warehouse Only) or Monster.

Some of these sites maybe useful in their own right, but their uploads onto the government job centre site is distracting and inappropriate.

I am also fed up with jobs that are basically scams, self employed marketing adverts and pointless catalog delivery people.

Does anyone actually police the site or what?

AP007

Its not spam they are adverts for jobs on 3rd party sites.

Already told the JC about this in March and they didn't even know that less and less jobs were actually from companies on there

Monster run the UJM so there you go on that one!

Anyone can set up an account, you too and advertise any job you like on there!

john539

The DWP & government can't get rid of these spam jobs as UJM would be empty.

By having no quality control they can have lots of unverified jobs dumped there by external job boards.

It's all part of the chirade.

AP007

john539 wrote: »

The DWP & government can't get rid of these spam jobs as UJM would be empty.

By having no quality control they can have lots of unverified jobs dumped there by external job boards.

It's all part of the chirade.

They aren't really spam just not direct jobs which is what the DWP seem to think the UJM is all about.

They want to promote the UJM but if you are using every sodding site known to man its possible you have already applied for them when you see them on the UJM

john539

AP007 wrote: »

They aren't really spam just not direct jobs which is what the DWP seem to think the UJM is all about.

They want to promote the UJM but if you are using every sodding site known to man its possible you have already applied for them when you see them on the UJM

They are spam because they are dumped there, most were not targetted to be advertised with Jobcentre.

I'm sure DWP know what a joke it is, but can't admit it, as it's driven by politics.

AP007

john539 wrote: »

They are spam because they are dumped there, most were not targetted to be advertised with Jobcentre.

I'm sure DWP know what a joke it is, but can't admit it, as it's driven by politics.

There must be some small print somewhere on CV Library etc that says if you advertise with us we may out your advert on UJM or the advertiser may be a bit !!!!ed

But by say 'most where not targeted to be advertised with the Jobcentre' are you saying people who look on the UJM wont be good enough for the advertiser?

john539

AP007 wrote: »

There must be some small print somewhere on CV Library etc that says if you advertise with us we may out your advert on UJM or the advertiser may be a bit !!!!ed

But by say 'most where not targeted to be advertised with the Jobcentre' are you saying people who look on the UJM wont be good enough for the advertiser?

A lot of these agency jobs were not advertised with Jobcentre and I don't agencies think Jobcentre is best place to look for candidates.

There's no problem if you had filters to filter them out.

But it's a cover for lack of jobs being advertised direct with Jobcentre as employers desert it.

AP007

john539 wrote: »

A lot of these agency jobs were not advertised with Jobcentre and I don't agencies think Jobcentre is best place to look for candidates.

There's no problem if you had filters to filter them out.

But it's a cover for lack of jobs being advertised direct with Jobcentre as employers desert it.

Then maybe the agencies should do something about it

No big company really advertises direct on the Job Centres site so you can really tell the standard of jobs by that alone.

drbraindead

As already said, if you were to take these adverts off the site, there wouldn't be any jobs.

Government say there are more jobs this year? yeah right!