When I finished college in mid 2007 I went straight onto Job Seekers as I wanted to get into work straight away, first signed on in Juy 07, was on it until Oct 07 when I finally got the job I wanted. Never really got many calls dispite applying for god knows how many jobs (probs because I was only 18 at the time) but to start with I was dreading applying for Job Seekers as I had heard how difficult it and long for some people it was to apply for other benefits like DLA & pensions etc but luckily it was much easier than I thought, first phoned up the JSA helpline & had a date confirmed for an interview in the job centre, went along & first signed on and got paid 2 weeks later. Easy as that but after 6 weeks of so of going signing on, you get to kinda know the same guys who go there as well like "alright mate hows things! C ya in 2 weeks mate" lol but I got speaknig to a couple of the lads who I used to see everytime I went, one of them was originally on the sick from work because he had done something to his knee and he had a doctors note and everything to say he was not fit to work, and at the same time when he first went on the sick the company he worked for went bust!
So that left him jobless but at the same time he could not go back to work because of his knee and he sent off everything to try and get DLA and dispite having this doctors note to say he was not fit to work for a good while the DLA people would not give him DLA even though he was still entitled to it as well! In the end the DLA people told him to bugger off and apply for JSA to get an income, I couldn't believe it as much as he couldn't either!
Back in May 08 I got told that they were not going re-new my working contract (was currently on a 1 year school term contract) because of the low budget that was for the wages (start of the recession) and they had to let me go at the end on my contract, but my contract did not end until the following August, but this still gave me time to look for a new job because I worked in a school & the summer hols started in July and I would still be paid up to the end of Aug when my contract finished & had 8 weeks holiday. Spent most of the day everyday during those 8 weeks looking for work. Had a lot of phone calls but only had around 3 interviews. 2 of them went really well, the first one I was the last person again another condidate but they chose the other one in the end. The second interview went well as well but their was 6 of us there for interviews. Never heard back from them though so took that as a no lol. August came and I started to get a buit worried because after september I would not have an income then my dad gave me a job at his place doing office work etc and I am still here now and I like it
My advice is just to keep on looking, you will find somewhere eventually even if its something that you least expect! Always let other family members know that you are still looking for work because one might turn up with a job offer! 
Liam
So that left him jobless but at the same time he could not go back to work because of his knee and he sent off everything to try and get DLA and dispite having this doctors note to say he was not fit to work for a good while the DLA people would not give him DLA even though he was still entitled to it as well! In the end the DLA people told him to bugger off and apply for JSA to get an income, I couldn't believe it as much as he couldn't either!
Back in May 08 I got told that they were not going re-new my working contract (was currently on a 1 year school term contract) because of the low budget that was for the wages (start of the recession) and they had to let me go at the end on my contract, but my contract did not end until the following August, but this still gave me time to look for a new job because I worked in a school & the summer hols started in July and I would still be paid up to the end of Aug when my contract finished & had 8 weeks holiday. Spent most of the day everyday during those 8 weeks looking for work. Had a lot of phone calls but only had around 3 interviews. 2 of them went really well, the first one I was the last person again another condidate but they chose the other one in the end. The second interview went well as well but their was 6 of us there for interviews. Never heard back from them though so took that as a no lol. August came and I started to get a buit worried because after september I would not have an income then my dad gave me a job at his place doing office work etc and I am still here now and I like it
My advice is just to keep on looking, you will find somewhere eventually even if its something that you least expect! Always let other family members know that you are still looking for work because one might turn up with a job offer! Liam
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