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I start a Work Placement
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Not in charity shops, as there are no paid positions. And it might give you enough recent experience for you to get a paid retail job elsewhere.
So a month in a charity shop is competitivecagainst what other people who have worked continously can offer is it.
do you realise how many people are applying for retail jobs.:footie:0 -
Twisted_Cherry wrote: »It's gaining valuable experience.
So if you were a paid worker would you like to be layed off because someone is doing it for free.
if its so good why have many firms pulled out too.:footie:0 -
Stupid question. Of course no one likes to lose their job. Question should be, do the people who are working for free mind?So if you were a paid worker would you like to be layed off because someone is doing it for free.
if its so good why have many firms pulled out too.
Remember, you can have no comment on us workers. We aren't unemployed so can't comment on the unemployed. You don't work so you can't comment on those who do. Dem the rulz.0 -
So a month in a charity shop is competitivecagainst what other people who have worked continously can offer is it.
do you realise how many people are applying for retail jobs.
Well, if its a toss up between 1 months experience and none - what do you think looks better?
And no - I don't have the faintest idea how many people apply for retail jobs. Not my area. I do know how many people apply for my line of work though - and yes its extremely competitive. I am pretty sure its the same for all professions at the moment. But I am not finding ways to whine about it and not make the effort though.0 -
Twisted_Cherry wrote: »Then go to college and gain some qualifications and take on some voluntary work found off your own back rather than expecting the JC to babysit you!
Whose to say some people dont. Just dont assume that voluntary work is the answer to a paid job. Jobs go to people with experience which is recent and people who are in employment.
if youve taken a break to care for children or been sick etc your basically stuffed. The employer can afford to be choosy with thousands applying.:footie:0 -
being out of work so long you will be at a terrible disadvantage. Hope you prove me wrong.
Being out of work for as long as I have has not stopped me being accepted to university on three different occasions. Five offers in 2010 - I withdrew my place because I was too ill to start. One offer in 2011 – The classes clashed with my long-term therapy which was starting at the same time. In addition, another offer last year - I finally decided the course I wanted to do was not for me and I was doing it for all the wrong reasons!
In my 7 years out of work I have been hospitalised 6 times for mental health problems, tried to take my own life 4 times, but still completed an Access Course, Literacy Level 1 & 2, Numeracy Level 1 & 2, Mental Health Awareness Level 1 & 2, English GCSE (B) and ECDL (IT Skills). I have also volunteered for a charity and helped create a forum in a hospital for patients with Mental Health Problems – my CV is far from empty, and I am certain when I am ready to return to work it will not take me long to find a job. I have guaranteed references from five different people! I also plan to study part time at university from this September for a degree that will take six years to complete. I want to do this because achieving a degree has been a dream of mine for some time.
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Charity shops are whete people go who have been ordered by the courts to do community payback. Putting a jobseeker in there amongst someone with a criminal record is not right.Well, if its a toss up between 1 months experience and none - what do you think looks better?
And no - I don't have the faintest idea how many people apply for retail jobs. Not my area. I do know how many people apply for my line of work though - and yes its extremely competitive. I am pretty sure its the same for all professions at the moment. But I am not finding ways to whine about it and not make the effort though.
The two are not comparable.:footie:0 -
Whose to say some people dont. Just dont assume that voluntary work is the answer to a paid job. Jobs go to people with experience which is recent and people who are in employment.
if youve taken a break to care for children or been sick etc your basically stuffed. The employer can afford to be choosy with thousands applying.
So - are you suggesting that these people just give up working towards having a decent life? I mean if they have no hope at all ...0
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