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Jobcentre annoyance
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When i went down to the jobcentre on tuesday morning i stopped at one of the touch screen search points. Found something i liked the look of so printed it out. Brought it home with me becaus eit's for somewhere round the corner from where i live and on the form it said to contact Mr X on such & such a number. I rang the number and asked for this Mr X only to be told that it shouldnt say tha tand that i should drop into the store for an application form.
When i heard that i immediatly felt infuriated, i mean i was running around chasing my own arse for gods sake, i feel like that took up precious time i could have used for job seeking elsewhere. I think i am going to complain because thats just not on, half the time the JC i go to dont even care enough to help search for work so this kind of thing just does not help me and other job seekers at all. Am i wrong to want to complain and get this fixed so that people like me dont waste their time in future ?
It's hard enough finding work as it is without running around after my own arse.
In all honesty i really do not think the the jobcentre, and its staff do enough to help the unemployed, but i should say that this could just be the JC i attend and not necessarily all jobcentres.
When i heard that i immediatly felt infuriated, i mean i was running around chasing my own arse for gods sake, i feel like that took up precious time i could have used for job seeking elsewhere. I think i am going to complain because thats just not on, half the time the JC i go to dont even care enough to help search for work so this kind of thing just does not help me and other job seekers at all. Am i wrong to want to complain and get this fixed so that people like me dont waste their time in future ?
It's hard enough finding work as it is without running around after my own arse.
In all honesty i really do not think the the jobcentre, and its staff do enough to help the unemployed, but i should say that this could just be the JC i attend and not necessarily all jobcentres.
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But they are only as good as the information they receive from employers, and if the shop cocked up then its not really the JC's fault.
You're right though we can only put what employers tell us to on our systems and we would always advise anyone not to rely 100% on our jobpoints as we only get a small percentage of the vacancies out there. If you notice a mistake though I would always advise telling someone, nicely of course, then at least the next person who looks at isn't wasting their time!
Thread might be getting a bit past its prime tho