Work Placement through Job Centre, questions?

patman99

OP, please feel free to name and shame the hotel so we all know not to use it.
Companies that use the WP & MWA schemes are really the scum of the earth. They either have a job to fill (in which case, they should take on a paid employee), or they don't. As your son is just the next in a long line of free skivees being used to clean the place, I'd say that there is a job, but they are to tight-fisted to actually pay someone to do it.

Podge52

It wouldn't be a good idea to name and shame.

It could make you an easy target for a sanction.

Ugguy

Podge52 wrote: »

It wouldn't be a good idea to name and shame.

It could make you an easy target for a sanction.

If that's the case then I would see if you could appeal.

szam_

Another_not_new_user wrote: »

My next door neighbour has a first class degree in computer science and a Masters in computing; has a driving licence and a car; and lives within commuting distance of four cities. He stacking shelves at Morrisons. He has been for three years. The bubble has burst - there are few jobs in service desks or helpdesks at entry level. Maybe there are if you are lucky enough to live somewhere where there is entry level demand - there's none around here.

It's not that there are none, it's that someone with a masters applying for a 13-17k first line help desk style job will be overlooked because the employer would see it as a boring task for them.

Hell, I've been turned down for a help desk job citing I would be very bored and I'm only mid twenties, with no degree, A-Levels/BTEC, nor a driving license.

Get a decent CV uploaded to something like Jobsite and I guarantee you'd get at least 6 or 7 calls, 3 or 4 with genuine leads for jobs. It's how I found my last 2 jobs - I was looking elsewhere but I have more luck when people find my CV.

[Deleted User]

When are you supposed to have time to look for a real job if you are having to slave for 40 hours a week for no pay?

Madness.

James_B.

Deleted_User wrote: »

When are you supposed to have time to look for a real job if you are having to slave for 40 hours a week for no pay?

Madness.

In the 124 other hours per week that you are not working.

Plenty of people look for different jobs when working, it's really not hard. 40 hours is really not many hours to work.

tomtontom

silverwhistle wrote: »

Do you use your interview gear when you are cleaning?

Do you make excuses for avoiding hard work?

[Deleted User]

James_B. wrote: »

In the 124 other hours per week that you are not working.

Plenty of people look for different jobs when working, it's really not hard. 40 hours is really not many hours to work.

Everyone knows it is easier to get a new job when you already have a job.

When you are out of work and desperate for a job, you do a lot more while trying to find a job. How are you meant to call prospective employers and hand CV's out if you are stuck doing unpaid skivvy work during working hours?

Put that copy of the Daily Mail down.

topaztiger1983

I do agree that the WP & MWA are crap, but the upside is that he has something to go on his CV besides a degree, which is not helping him at the moment, I know someone who has a degree in engineering and he works on the checkouts at Tesco

I have a GNVQ in ICT & BTEC's in IT & Customer Service, but I am a cook at KFC, it is not an ideal world out there, sometimes you have to do jobs that don't really want to do to get something better in the future

Hard work will pay off, I should know I had been at KFC for 3 weeks & was told that due to my hard work and my attitude toward work that I had already passed my 3 MONTH PROBATIONARY PERIOD, so working at something even if you don't really like it can really help you it the future, I did voluntary work in a charity shop before i found the job at KFC & I believe that it helped me to get the job

Yes it is working for nothing but its better that sitting on his !!! all day, doing jack, remember employers look at employment history on a CV, if you don't have any at all then they will choose someone else who has at least had a job before

I am not saying that your son is lazy, but you have to be realistic in this day & age, the world is not ideal & neither are the jobs, but thats just the way it is these days, maybe he just needs to lower his standards a little, any work is better than none, is it not

topaztiger1983

silverwhistle wrote: »

Do you use your interview gear when you are cleaning?

amiehall wrote: »

Exactly... I won't sit down on the bus in my interview outfit, forget cleaning dirty showers :eek:

If it got me the job I would clean wearing only my underpants !!!!!!

Some people make me so angry :mad:, "oh I can't possibly clean in my interview clothes they might get dirty", well boo hoo, just wash them doofus, or heres an idea, buy some more (Charity shops do some nice clothe nowadays, I got some perfect condition RJR John Rocha jeans from one a couple of months ago for £3.50), jesus christ almighty, get a brain idiot