Job seekers question

Catman7

The 35 hours is manadry I beleive, when you sign up to job seekers you sign a form called "my claimant commitment" and inside that form is a part called "my actions for getting work" it will state in there my says "I am aware of the need for 35 hours job searching per week" the way I am now working it now is doing 5 hours a day x 7 = 35 hours much easier lol we have just changed things at my job centre here in Shakespeare country, we have to now fill out a fill a sheet everyday to say what we done, how we done it, actions taken and how how hours it took ect not sure if it's the sane anywhere else, but like most job centres not very helpful I am 34 but claimed job seekers years ago and they went out there way to help you, offered you things that would help ie like courses, but know your left to do everything and there not interested in anything you say.

Charlotte17

Catman7 wrote: »

The 35 hours is manadry I beleive, when you sign up to job seekers you sign a form called "my claimant commitment" and inside that form is a part called "my actions for getting work" it will state in there my says "I am aware of the need for 35 hours job searching per week" the way I am now working it now is doing 5 hours a day x 7 = 35 hours much easier lol we have just changed things at my job centre here in Shakespeare country, we have to now fill out a fill a sheet everyday to say what we done, how we done it, actions taken and how how hours it took ect not sure if it's the sane anywhere else, but like most job centres not very helpful I am 34 but claimed job seekers years ago and they went out there way to help you, offered you things that would help ie like courses, but know your left to do everything and there not interested in anything you say.

So as said here are you getting Universal Credit the new benefit or still JSA?

If not then what you have been told currently is different to what I have been told and doing.

I have to do screen prints of all applications I make and I store this on a PDF file which I upload to dropbox and show them at the job centre.

No one fills in any booklet anymore

Catman7

Charlotte17 wrote: »

So as said here are you getting Universal Credit the new benefit or still JSA?

If not then what you have been told currently is different to what I have been told and doing.

I have to do screen prints of all applications I make and I store this on a PDF file which I upload to dropbox and show them at the job centre.

No one fills in any booklet anymore

To be honest I have no idea lol I am claiming housing and council tax benefit but through local council I am not aware that I am getting universal credit my forms all say JSA.

I do screen shots of everything just to cover my back if you download Dropbox to the computer and sign in, in the settings there is a option to save screen shots straight to drop box, so when you press the screen capture button on the keyboard it uploads it to drop box and saves it in a folder called screen shots.

Charlotte17

Catman7 wrote: »

To be honest I have no idea lol I am claiming housing and council tax benefit but through local council I am not aware that I am getting universal credit my forms all say JSA.

I do screen shots of everything just to cover my back if you download Dropbox to the computer and sign in, in the settings there is a option to save screen shots straight to drop box, so when you press the screen capture button on the keyboard it uploads it to drop box and saves it in a folder called screen shots.

Whats the screen capture button on a laptop? LOL

I press print screen and then paste onto a file

Also if it adds each one as an individual page that way there is no way I am clicking into over 120 different pages!

Catman7

Charlotte17 wrote: »

Whats the screen capture button on a laptop? LOL

I press print screen and then paste onto a file

Also if it adds each one as an individual page that way there is no way I am clicking into over 120 different pages!

Read this https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/1964

Saves them as a JPEG file so much easier then copying and pasting as I just log in and see them, 1 click and it's done

donnajunkie

General_Grant wrote: »

How odd. Doesn't "search" include actually working on applications, not just finding an advertisement to which you can respond? I'd include all hours that I worked on finding a job and preparing covering letters and tweaking my CV for specific jobs/employers would be part of that and might well be at the weekend or a bank holiday.

i think i would include all jobcentre appointments and courses as well. that includes travel time. i would take liberties and make out tasks took as long as is believable as well. if i was really struggling to fill 35 hours i would just say i spent an afternoon or more handing cvs out around an industrial estate.

donnajunkie

ray1971 wrote: »

The 35 hours per week rule only applies to Universal credit claimants, not Job seekers allowance claimants.
If you are claiming UC then it does cover weekends as UC is paid at a daily rate over 7 days.

but if you have no access to the net how are you supposed to jobsearch on a sunday? i dont think because you get paid for 7 days that it means you must jobseek for 7 days. jsa is paid for 6 days i think and i know someone who is only required to jobsearch 4 days per week.

BoJangles_2

I would say that once the initial preperation has been complete on your cv etc. you wouldn't even need to do 35 hours a week. So long as you can prove you have put in a good effort.

At the end of the day, you can apply for thousands of jobs with half a heart and it would be a waste of time. If you apply for fewer job applications but put more effort into it then you will do better.

donnajunkie

ray1971 wrote: »

JSA is also a 7 day benefit......so yes they can ask you to look for work for 7 days a week if they want to as you are getting paid for a 7 day period

i would love to see them explain how someone without internet access can jobseek on a sunday. even on the days they can require you to jobseek they cant require that many hours because places that have the net like libraries often limit you to 1 hour per day.

ray1971

donnajunkie wrote: »

but if you have no access to the net how are you supposed to jobsearch on a sunday? i dont think because you get paid for 7 days that it means you must jobseek for 7 days. jsa is paid for 6 days i think and i know someone who is only required to jobsearch 4 days per week.

I can assure you as a Job centre work coach JSA is a 7 day benefit!