Can my girlfriend fight to keep her job?
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What a ridiculous thing to say, of course there are jobs going.
I could link you to the job centre as an example, hundreds of jobs are being advertised, you just have to look.
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Has she spoken to her union rep?
Telesales vacancies that advertise "upto £20 p.a" and require you to stump up £100 for "background check" and zero hour contracts aren't real jobs
Only something like 5% of jobs advertised on the JCP+ website are real jobs and have hundreds of people applying for each vacancy.
Telesales vacancies that advertise "upto £20 p.a" and require you to stump up £100 for "background check" and zero hour contracts aren't real jobs
Only something like 5% of jobs advertised on the JCP+ website are real jobs and have hundreds of people applying for each vacancy.
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The job centre is the perfect example of the lack of jobs, once you exclude avon catalogue "self employed vacancies".
This is just a quick search for birmingham as an example.
40 pages of jobs, and you say there aren't any? ..
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/Job...w=b&re=134&setype=2&tjt=&where=birmingham+&q=
OP's location, 40 pages of jobs again..
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/Job...dt.di&vw=b&re=134&setype=2&where=walsall&pg=1
40 pages of jobs, and you say there aren't any? ..
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/Job...w=b&re=134&setype=2&tjt=&where=birmingham+&q=
OP's location, 40 pages of jobs again..
https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/Job...dt.di&vw=b&re=134&setype=2&where=walsall&pg=1
I live in the North East and I'm looking for work in either IT or as Admin. I can only go for part time work and I don't have my own transport. Given these limitations, I'm lucky if I find 1 job per month that I could realistically apply for.
Energize is right, there isn't much out there for some of us.
EDIT: I meant Energize not Clovis, oops
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Interesting, there's a lot of people on my employer's dedicated employee Facebook page that in the last few days have asked whether they're allowed to do exactly the same thing. I thought it was a spate of managers going on power trips but it would appear that it's happening in many places in retail :/
They are mainly duplicate advertisements from recruitment agencies looking for temp HGV drivers/laborers, or commission based sales jobs. There are very few actual permanent positions of employment, even less offering a reasonable amount of hours.
When you take into account the op's situation which is a non-professional job, then almost all the remainder are excluded as they require specific professional qualifications.
It's easy to go on the job centre website and be mislead by the numbers, but when you take a more thorough look through them you see the reality.
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I'll have to agree with Energize here. When I was on the dole in 2010, job vacancies were either minimum wage or sky high £40k+. Nothing inbetween for us average £15k office mortals. Stafford jobcentre.
Now cut out the jobs that require specific qualifications. Teachers, nurses, HGV drivers, FLT operators, brain surgeons.
Then cut out the non-jobs. Avon reps, catalog distribution, agencies with very vague descriptions, greek finance minister.
How many are you left with?
People who say there are loads of jobs on the Job Centre website are misled Daily Mail reading folk.
When ever I look it is full of Avon/Betterware/Kleeneze "self employed" catalogue distributors, commission only sales positions, temp zero hour jobs. And the rest are all agencies advertising jobs that don't exist.
When ever I look it is full of Avon/Betterware/Kleeneze "self employed" catalogue distributors, commission only sales positions, temp zero hour jobs. And the rest are all agencies advertising jobs that don't exist.
Advertised, yes.
Real, no.
People who aren't directly involved really don't understand how much things have changed for the working poor in recent years.
10 years ago, the company I work for had trouble getting staff. The pay was poor and the hours were unsociable. Sometimes a job advert (a real one for a real job, not like the ones you refer to) would result in no applicants at all.
Now, the pay is worse, the hours are far worse, the working conditions are far worse, the benefits are worse and will become even worse (minimum sick pay and holiday only and they'll often evade even that). Everything about the job is far worse than it was. Despite that, a job advert today can result in several hundred applicants. There are far fewer low-end jobs than there were even 10 years ago and more people who need those jobs. Which, of course, is why the bottom-end jobs have become far worse in recent years. Why pay more for your peasants when you can pay less and get them anyway? We're only cost units, easily replaced.
Jobs being out there and actually getting one is a whole different matter - one of my colleagues husband has been recently made redundant - got a solid employment history with some big name firms in his line of work, broad range of qualifications, etc. fairly confident/reasonably good people person, etc. so nothing there that would make it hard to get work and hes prepared to travel upto a couple of hours - been looking for months without any joy and knowing his wife she won't be letting him get away without trying pretty hard if she had to march him through the door herself.
Similiar story for myself a few years back - while there wasn't a shortage of jobs as such where I was living I was forever getting to the final stage and then just getting beaten to the post and/or lower skilled places would come back with something like "we don't think you'd stick around" however much I tried to dumb down my CV - I got lucky in that I was in the position to move to get a job and managed to get something in days in another part of the country.
Some people just have it easier than others though - I'm not much of a people person which makes it a lot harder - whereas my brother who is naturally charismatic just seems to be able to walk into a job any time he likes :S doors just seem to open for him.
