Employment agencies and jobs in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Isorene

Does anyone know of industrial (manual) jobs in the Newcastle area?My husband has been looking for a job for 3 years now and apart from 2 or 3 jobs for a week or 2, nothing. Before, he used to have temporary jobs, but they lasted a few months and when one ended, soon after a new one appeared. Now it is a lot more difficult to get a job and he has a good CV, with experience in many manual jobs, but I think the employment agencies are a big part of the problem. They only contact you when they have a one day job or maybe a week, that nobody wants to get and they don't even pay time and a half for Sunday, etc. I really miss the times when you just went directly to an employer and asked for vacancies, now you have to send a stupid CV to clean toilets. My husband has sent more than 500 applications in the last 6 months, nobody contact him even to let him know he wasn't successful but the same vacancies keep appearing week after week. I think the Government should make a law that employment agencies must take a certain amount of persons from the Jobcentre Plus and gives them a chance to work and if they are good enough to be offered a permanent place or otherwise, but at least the chance to prove they can or can not work, many people would go off benefits. We are desperate for a job!

Charlotte17

No the Gov can not make agencies give unemployed work as they are not the employer. They could however make it illegal for COMPANIES to turn down people on the basis of them being unemployed.

What sites is he looking at for work?

ljsilver

The Government un-employment figures are a fiction in my opinion. They should get the company who does the un-employment figures to do the immigration figures!


They are moving the un-employed around to different private 'Training' companies that have sprang up since 2008. They have extended the commodification of un-employment created by Labour, Private companies paid taxpayer money to physically watch un-employed people sit at a computer and look for jobs...that don't exist...because another industry that has sprang up is the BIG DATA INDUSTRY that no one has a clue about.


DATA harvesting has become Big Business in recent years. Companies who make money sifting, analysing packaging up DATA are creating fictional job adverts in order to collect CV's and Personal information to be sold on. The 'training' and data industries allow the government to claim
A) There are record numbers of job positions! (Fraud)
There are record numbers in employment (on training courses)


Immigrants with degrees and all sorts are ten a penny. Your husband's got no chance, love.

ljsilver

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
:money:


Interesting quote that. Got no idea why it appeared at the bottom of my post, however. It reminded me of a good poem from my youth:

The Stranger within my Gate
Rudyard Kipling

The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk--
I cannot feel his mind
I see the face and the eyes and mouth
But not the soul behind.


The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wonted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy and sell.


The stranger within my gates
He may be evil or good
But I cannot tell what powers control,
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.


The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But at least they hear the things I hear
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes,
They think of the likes of me.


This was my father's belief,
And this is also mine:
Let all the corn be one sheaf
And the grapes be all one vine
Ere our children's teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.