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Job Centre - Rule Changes
StrmChaserSteve
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Just had this on twitter.
Starting from May
Before your first meeting with a JCP advisor you need to:
Prepare a CV
Have an appropriate email address
Registered with Universal Job Match
Therefore people will need to do those things, before they can even initially claim benefit
I thought the role of places like Jobcentres was to provide help for things like CV's
Not everyone owns a computer, and Universal Job Match website is rubbish, sometimes down... often runs very slowly
Starting from May
Before your first meeting with a JCP advisor you need to:
Prepare a CV
Have an appropriate email address
Registered with Universal Job Match
Therefore people will need to do those things, before they can even initially claim benefit
I thought the role of places like Jobcentres was to provide help for things like CV's
Not everyone owns a computer, and Universal Job Match website is rubbish, sometimes down... often runs very slowly
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There are changes one of which is instead of having s[pace to write down all your activity you now have a little white box to fill your weekly jobsearching. It's tiny
Understand my situation - 1 point
Search for a job - 1 point
Apply for a job - 1 point
Show interview skill - 1 point. Ect...
Just had my certificate in the post.
I now feel TOTALLY HUMILLITAED
Do they send you on those courses routinely or only if you're deemed to be a malingerer?
In fact i see those as three very reasonable steps. I didn't realize jobseekers etc wasnow just a skills training organisation anymore (or that's what I am getting from the OP).
That is no longer the case/
That job is now done by private, commercial contractors such as A4E, Interserve etc.
The Job Centre is now nothing more than a benefit processing centre, and really should change their name.
I would think these changes wont affect most new claimants, but I wonder how it will affect new claimants who have worked for many years, lost their job but have no CV and don't know the first thing about producing one as they aren't computer literate?.
I presume the JC will send that person on some course lasting a week or two first, before even considering a JSA claim?.
And what is the point of making everyone sign up to UJM when it's reportedly being phased out and replaced anyway?.
Jobcentre 'changes' Keeping central admin teams in jobs lol..urghh..
Maybe that's the point of it. There may be method in their madness.
I agree
I'd have thought that having a decent CV and an email address strictly for job searching was a given if you're serious about looking for work. As for the Universal Job match, I don't know too much about that but it looks like a right abortion of a website.
I got put on a Reed how to do a CV course, heh got turned away because I asked to leave 20mins early to collect the kids from school, shortly after my claim, 'we dont allow single parents here..mehh'..meh indeed!
I showed the person my CV which has always got me a job even in my late 50s and downloaded CVs from professional CV sites which look very much like mine.
I am helping her do hers which as I said will not look like the total and utter cr@p one they want her to do.
TBH If I saw a CV laid out like that I wouldn't even look at it