Arrogant Job Centre Adviser

motorguy

M_anonymous wrote: »

I also had a torrid time with the job centre.

Made redundant from a £30k role.
CV all up to date and applying for jobs between £30k - £50k. The advisor was more interested in getting me a minimum wage job. Spent a lot of my time away at the World Cup this year so didn't see much of the claim money. Would I sign on again? Wouldn't waste my breath with it. Frustrating. Can see why those that aren't as driven or skilled turn their nose up at it also.

I think 99.99% of the people who sign on because they need the money.

Undervalued

M_anonymous wrote: »

I also had a torrid time with the job centre.

Made redundant from a £30k role.
CV all up to date and applying for jobs between £30k - £50k. The advisor was more interested in getting me a minimum wage job. Spent a lot of my time away at the World Cup this year so didn't see much of the claim money. Would I sign on again? Wouldn't waste my breath with it. Frustrating. Can see why those that aren't as driven or skilled turn their nose up at it also.

Which, for the vast majority of claimants, is a sensible starting point.

It is generally far easier to get a job if you are actually in employment than if you are unemployed. Plus, if you are earning even the NMW it is that much less for the rest of us to fund!

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Perhaps the Job Centre know a little more about the companies you have applied to? (Say's she who got sanctioned when an advisor warned you don't want to go there in the first place! ok the year was 2013 and it was days into a claim)

Bonkers if you have shown them proof of the interviews but it might well be the companies have a reputation for messing people around/not making offers.

Alright I live in a job centre fluffy area where job advert's get put up in the window in pretty pastel coloured paper but perhaps there is more to it. I recently overheard someone upset at not hearing anymore on a job offer, only to also hear but if the job centre can't get ahold of them..

Companies can recruit going through major changes and just leave it to tell you on first day. It was the one thing that failed me, going to check the place wasn't on the market/rocky times ahead - it's another drama on the CV for which I would have been grateful for the Angel on my shoulder rather then hearing about it first day.

Despite sending my friend lots of jobs for their area - they manage to apply for one of those door chugging companies (and recently) they wasted precious money attending that interview and at the risk of other possibly more genuine and for them better fitting jobs. Alongside their passion for only going through agencies - still has no job and they are brewing up a gap without even support of the job centre.