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Twisted_Cherry

red_devil wrote: »

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.

There is more to gaining experience than just through the job centre. You can find your own independent voluntary work through the DO IT website. If GG did this he might stand a chance of getting a job!

http://www.do-it.org.uk/

Look at all these voluntary jobs in Burnley...

http://www.do-it.org.uk/search/opportunities?latLng=53.792260%2C-2.244710&location=Burnley+-+Burnley+Lancashire&distance=5&unit=mile

melysion

red_devil wrote: »

Its correct. I wonder just how much you know about what is going on out there today.

Quite a lot actually. I have a brother who is long term unemployed.

I tell you what though - Twisted Cherry is very much more likely to get a job than you.

Twisted_Cherry

red_devil wrote: »

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.

If I was an employer I would be looking at what a person who has been unemployed for so long had been doing in their spare time. I would be likely to employ someone who had done voluntary work and gained some experience than someone who had done nothing.

Twisted_Cherry

melysion wrote: »

Quite a lot actually. I have a brother who is long term unemployed.

I tell you what though - Twisted Cherry is very much more likely to get a job than you.

I can't wait till I do to prove some people right! I have people in my family who have claimed benefits for years - one who has never worked and she continually suggests I should remain on benefits because I am better off! Honesty she can't see how important it is for me to return to work!

red_devil

No, but you are at a serious disadvantage without recent skills and experience. Its a cop out for the gvt to send you on a placement. I believe it helps to fiddle the figures also to try and make it look good.

I am actually not sure why you are under such pressure from the government to be honest if your unemployed you entitled to benefit by law period. Somebody was telling me they signed on briefly in the eighties and thre was none of what there is today. Far too much pressure imo.

red_devil

Twisted_Cherry wrote: »

I can't wait till I do to prove some people right! I have people in my family who have claimed benefits for years - one who has never worked and she continually suggests I should remain on benefits because I am better off! Honesty she can't see how important it is for me to return to work!

Thetes alot of people going from income support to jsa when their child is 5 as well as everyone else looking. It may be important to you but can you be the one the employer wants.

melysion

red_devil wrote: »

No, but you are at a serious disadvantage without recent skills and experience. Its a cop out for the gvt to send you on a placement. I believe it helps to fiddle the figures also to try and make it look good.

I am actually not sure why you are under such pressure from the government to be honest if your unemployed you entitled to benefit by law period. Somebody was telling me they signed on briefly in the eighties and thre was none of what there is today. Far too much pressure imo.

I think I would rather slit my throat than settle for being long term unemployed.

red_devil

Twisted_Cherry wrote: »

If I was an employer I would be looking at what a person who has been unemployed for so long had been doing in their spare time. I would be likely to employ someone who had done voluntary work and gained some experience than someone who had done nothing.

In reality youd be looking for someone who has skills so you dont need to train them.

Twisted_Cherry

red_devil wrote: »

No, but you are at a serious disadvantage without recent skills and experience. Its a cop out for the gvt to send you on a placement. I believe it helps to fiddle the figures also to try and make it look good.

But there is no excuse to not have skills and experience. You can gain it yourself with a little bit of effort!

GG posts on here continually about finding work, but never has he answered why he will not go to college or do voluntary work - the answer as to why is because he simply does not want a job, he's quite happy to sit on the dole and do nothing!

I've seen people stood on roundabouts begging for work, and these are the people who get taken on because they use their head to find work!

red_devil

melysion wrote: »

Quite a lot actually. I have a brother who is long term unemployed.

I tell you what though - Twisted Cherry is very much more likely to get a job than you.

You cant make that assumption without knowing us personally.