What planet are the Job Centre Advisers on?

AP007

monkeychops wrote: »

I haven't been out of work for over 6 months.

I can't claim pension or pension credit until 2020!!!

Yeah don't you only get pension credit when you are actually drawing the state pension? Odd the poster thinks you can get it when you are not getting a pension.

anamenottaken

monkeychops wrote: »

I asked the careers advisor if I could do a computer course and she said she would find out about them and yes it should be ok. That was at our first meeting. At the next two I asked again and she fobbed me off and started suggesting I do literacy and numeracy courses which I don't really see the point of.

I have made it clear to them what I feel my skills are and what work I feel I could do but they ignore that.

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I haven't failed the job in my head before I have even applied. I have no payroll experience and my maths is absolutely diabolical. I am being realistic. It is highly unlikely the company would even interview me as they would see from my CV that I have no experience. In the unlikely event they did interview me I am fairly certain I would not get offered the job and, to be honest, if I did get offered the job I would not want it as I know I would dread going into work every day. I hate maths and would never want to do a job that involved it to a great extent even if they offered me £100 a day.
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I'd echo the adviser and Firetastic and suggest a numeracy course.

Using your literacy skills you will find that numeracy is not the same as maths. Numeracy is a definite life skill.

If you want to be useful in a secretarial or administrative job, then being able to use a spreadsheet program is now important. For that you need some numeracy skills.

BurnleyBob

John1993 wrote: »

Well, it could also be because they have more of a "can-do" attitude as opposed to an "I'm not going to try and do that" one.

Oh, and they can't pay someone in their 20s less than you, you bot hhave the same minimum wage. A pertinent question would be why do you think that you are worth more than these younger workers?

Incorrect. If you don't believe me, here's the evidence that's furnished by your beloved state. https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

Skint_Catt

Elvisia wrote: »

Can you audio type? I know there are well paid jobs doing audio typing for people, ie lawyers, doctors, financial types etc, and that would only required basic keyboard skills. Fast basic keyboard skills!

Could you tell me where to find these please? Thanks

PasturesNew

Voyager2002 wrote: »

And I don't see why you couldn't be a train driver!

Quoted from traindriver.org

"There is no longer an upper age limit for entry, but training drivers is expensive and TOCs will want to get value for their investment. It is unlikely that many firms will consider you much past fifty, although I have heard of people being accepted as late as fifty-five."

The OP is nearly 60.

PasturesNew

Elvisia wrote: »

Can you audio type? I know there are well paid jobs doing audio typing for people, ie lawyers, doctors, financial types etc, and that would only required basic keyboard skills. Fast basic keyboard skills!

There's a LOT more to audio typing than just fast basic keyboard skills. You need to be able to spell and know grammar. You need to know how to lay out the relevant documents correctly.

I've audio typed for many years in various environments.

As for "well paid jobs" - it pays national minimum wage in most places.

PasturesNew

If I were recruiting for a Payroll role, I'd expect the person to understand payroll, taxation, NI, holiday pay, impacts of benefits etc. And to have used a Payroll program of some sort and to know that there are weekly/monthly/annual procedures and processes that need to be adhered to and why they are important for the program to not produce garbage. Then there's an understanding of printing out P45s, P60s, P11s ... etc

Payroll isn't like filing or photocopying. There's knowledge, experience and skills that others can demonstrate they have already.

John1993_2

BurnleyBob wrote: »

Incorrect. If you don't believe me, here's the evidence that's furnished by your beloved state. https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

Which shows that once you are 21, that's it, the same minimum wage applies no matter what age you reach, which is why I said "in their 20s" not "20 years old"...

lazer

AP007 wrote: »

Yeah don't you only get pension credit when you are actually drawing the state pension? Odd the poster thinks you can get it when you are not getting a pension.

If you are male you can get pension credit without the state pension if you are over the female pension age.

BurnleyBob

John1993 wrote: »

Which shows that once you are 21, that's it, the same minimum wage applies no matter what age you reach, which is why I said "in their 20s" not "20 years old"...

Twenties: someone who's aged 20-29. Should you disagree I suggest you invest in a dictionary.