I am a 56 year old woman unemployed for the first time in my life and I'm expected to do work experience!!!!!!!!!!!! I have worked for 39 years so why the hell do they think I need work experience!!!!!!! It's slave labour that's all it is, for employers to get free labour..Disgusting it is!!!
1Scottishmum I know what you mean. You are treated like a child as though you cannot even remember when you are supposed to come in i.e. use a diary. Give me a break! I was a legal secretary for 12 years full time.
It's worth noteing too..That Iain Duncan Smith, would not visit a dwp office, when it is open to the public. Because he thinks the unemployed are the dregs of British society. He " Smith & McVey" would not visit food banks...Why? Is it because they think we're rubbish.?? I was told by a dwp staff member this, when Smith visited a dwp office " we couldn't say anything to Smith about any concerns we had, because the manger's of the dwp office were standing there.". Not very democratic, is it ?
The chap attitude of at the dry cleaner's is telling. A young lad who wants a job and is enthusiastic would stand no chance without experience. However, a woman with 20 years experience in the industry would not be encouraged by the low hours and rate of pay and may be tempted to set up on her own instead. This dry cleaner will have this vacancy advertised for months on end with no one filling it as a result.
That consultant is not on benefits but she is being paid through the tax payer to patronise people. If you are shy you are not going to find them. And surely someone running a business will know if they need more staff without being told.
Alot of places recruit only online. But, afew years ago,I was handing out my physical CV to various retail outlets in Stafford,and especially one particular well known high street supermarket. I went on my way, totally deflated after doing this for a few hours. Knowing that it was a total waste of my time,as I was forced into doing it by the jobcentre. 3weeks later,I had a phone call from Asda, offering me an interview. I went,and got a full time job. At the time I handed my CV to the person on the till and asked her to give it to the personnel department,I was told that all applications are done online. But,if your recruiting,and you have a physical CV in front of you,if you like what you read,then they'll get in touch with you. It worked for me.
I have found after a recent run in with the work program provider TCV that the people that work there have no idea what is going on. I guess if you don't go out of your way to find out how they are screwing over everyone then you are going to be ignorant. However I have not met anyone who has anything nice to say about them. We don't know that guy could have been an actor or a plant by the work provider we don't know if he really got a job or if he was even a real client. But I suppose they make the most of the occasional person they do manage to find work. Pick any work program web site and look at the bull shit stories they have on there.
I have been on loads of training courses in Cheshire. There all rubbish..." It's out there if u want it, but only if u want it'. I can tell u this, u are better off trying to help your self, because the government doesn't give a s@@t. The DWP are ham strung, because the government cuts the the budget for courses.
For about 8hours now I've been researching Jobs and job centre plus to learn the reality of how the work force works. I have this time as I am looking for work but decided to research on some facts about the work force today. Time well spent!, I've learned allot and happy with my progress. Its interesting to see others opinion on the matter and now I have a tighter grip on the reality. Thank you for the upload, I appreciate it, been an experience.
buggs alonso good point. For people who do not drive, bus fares are getting really expensive. I used to walk to the Job Centre which was two miles away, and back to save money.
When you go for a short term contract job there's always some mythical employee who's been working solidly for them for years. Most of the time that person has been there well before the short term came in and it doesn't apply to them. No one ever bothers to explain that though.
I am unemployed, I have more qualifications than most of the advisers, I am older than the advisers, I teach computers in the scheme i am on, because the staff there are too busy, and they dont know how to do a lot of the things i know how to do.In the one i go to there are 1000 people on the books, and only 20 computers, you cannot do job search without an appointment. You are expected to do your normal job search.. and if you do get a job they will claim they got it for you..
why can t the government say give job seekers a 2 day a week jobs doing something voluntary for their benefit rather than sending people to these silly workplaces
they did "work placements" but they are unpaid, in poundland they replaced paid staff with the free staff who are told, like me "it MIGHT lead to paid work" instead it offers a company modern day slave labor, i got out of the interview though and dodged the bullet haha but for others it's not good
I agree, it's worthwhile asking for work at some places even if they're not openly recruiting staff. Even when I was temporarily immobilised after an accident, I went round the city centre in a wheelchair seeking employment.
Harris's CV at 5:35: Strengths: 'I can drive, and swim' Interests: '...Marmite' Haha! Love these videos. By far the best insight into the political attitudes of people across Britain that I've found.
A dedicated 'Employment Consultant'. That's a lie. How many clients on the WP have had several 'dedicated' advisers? Drug & Alcohol issues should be dealt with by dedicated professionals at rehab centres. Debt issues can be handled by experienced debt charities or the CAB. Just how can a WP provider or sub-contractor help people with such problems if the advisers have a massive caseload of clients to sort out?
Where have all our jobs gone? and where is the trickle-down effect from QE? Sitting in offshore accounts perhaps or steadily inflating asset prices for bank coffers? www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/ www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/11219688/Ten-million-jobs-at-risk-from-advancing-technology.html This idea is based on the fact that money is created as an IOU in the banks ledger, and not as widely believed - savings lent. Every time there is a loan or a mortgage granted in this debt economy where debt is created as money, there could be a percentage of that loan amount created simultaneously as its component free of debt or non-repayment money that should be spent into the economy for the social good or partly to pay down sovereign debt. At least if the money is created as sovereign fund at the same time as debt is normally then taxes do not have to rise quite so severely on the ever diminishing workforce or the already rich, plus amounts created could relate to currency changing interactively, thereby addressing currency value fears. Why would that not help? Not sure at what rate it should be created as QE for infrastructure but that it should be I am certain. Technology is not creating employment at the rate it is devouring available jobs, mostly unskilled jobs but increasingly also skilled automation. Software is set to replace much of a doctor’s job with improved computer & mobile gadgetry set to interact. One medical specialist can perform 600 operations of the same type across several hospitals remotely & simultaneously. 24 sleek black automatic check out machines are installed at my local supermarket, what about yours? Google cars? (no drivers). Warehouses - all automation driven by software created from study of insect movements in colonies. Unfortunately politicians seem unable to design an appropriate economic structure to reflect these ongoing and imminent changes so instead of embracing these welcome & efficient developments they invent low paid work.
Not sure how "true" this show really is. Let's be honest, most of this is pre-arranged, as it's doubtful any company would be receptive if you just turned up unannounced with a TV crew.
hidden jobs......wtf is going on in this country...so lets say i did not ask asda say when they at dwp ask me i can get my wellfair payments sanctiond......wtf
Those young lads at the beginning, I would take them more seriously if they would pull their hoods down and take their hats off. There is enough well earned prejudice against young people as it is,,,, it doesn't help if you maintain the stereotype.
Attitude of the employer's/guys in the dry cleaners and music shop fucking sucks - basically admitting they cant even be bothered now making the effort 2 train people, - cuz they don't have to, wat a shitty attitude to take with someone who wants to work feel bad 4 any1 with learning difficulties mental health and disability issues with manager pricks like that and these so called advisors breathing down your neck (i.e. scum) ''u must conform you must be conditioned to be perfect'' BALLS I SAY!
Being honest! The job I have today, (worked there over five years) it wasn't the job I hope for. It was something I found within the company that made for better incentive. This could be the meaning about "hidden vacancies". Sometimes researching the companies that are employing people is a better starting place. What I found hidden within advertised vacancies, a lot of cons and sales/marketing... time wasters!!! I can see the point with CV (but that's a one in a million chance). The more substance vacancies usually have their own application procedure. I found its a mind field how employers advertise, so the old school could be compromised because of the web. I must say that "nothing with any substance came from jobsites"!!!
" Hidden Jobs". I use to walk all round the industry parks and ask for vacancies. I got told no. Most jobs are temp or to early to get , too with out a car. No buses at 6am. I was told on a dwp course, there would be jobs at vaxhall & then u read there laying off . It's a con & we have been pushed out of the job market.
That's bullshit I have experience in groundworks as maintenance worker gt nvq level 2 ,I gt laid off due to cuts now I've been unemployed nearly 2yr I've been on work programme for a year with companies they have done fuck all for me they are shit !
@Invesigator whats funny is the mandatory work placement. giving yet more "hidden" jobs to the unemployed (at even less pay) when these jobs should be used to fully employ the people who would have otherwise applied for them.
I appreciate the video... very insightful to see some positive thinkers on the subject... sadly according to statistics, (however reliable)... when A4e only manage to get 3/100 people back into work... it's very difficult to sustain much hope :\
I have to admit, there really are loads and loads of jobs out there, but the kind of jobs people often look for, often don't exist, or do exist and have a ridiculous amount of applicants (100 applicants to 1 position, for example). As formerly being on the dole, I must admit that there is a culture in claiming but not actually applying. Applying to 50 jobs in a month and only getting 1 reply isn't just dissapointing, but makes you wonder what the point is in even bothering. This is added to the fact that it is so easy to lie to your advisor.
I am a 56 year old woman unemployed for the first time in my life and I'm expected to do work experience!!!!!!!!!!!! I have worked for 39 years so why the hell do they think I need work experience!!!!!!! It's slave labour that's all it is, for employers to get free labour..Disgusting it is!!!
1Scottishmum I know what you mean. You are treated like a child as though you cannot even remember when you are supposed to come in i.e. use a diary. Give me a break! I was a legal secretary for 12 years full time.
1Scottishmum I am same age as you. Ageism is rife. Young people are cheap labour so why is there not more help for over 50s?
@@fionagregory1694 because bosses need a kick up the bum, not us.
"There is a job for everyone, yeah... Definitely..."
Maybe it's just me, but she doesn't sound too sure of herself there.
It's worth noteing too..That Iain Duncan Smith, would not visit a dwp office, when it is open to the public. Because he thinks the unemployed are the dregs of British society.
He " Smith & McVey" would not visit food banks...Why? Is it because they think we're rubbish.??
I was told by a dwp staff member this, when Smith visited a dwp office " we couldn't say anything to Smith about any concerns we had, because the manger's of the dwp office were standing there.".
Not very democratic, is it ?
The chap attitude of at the dry cleaner's is telling. A young lad who wants a job and is enthusiastic would stand no chance without experience. However, a woman with 20 years experience in the industry would not be encouraged by the low hours and rate of pay and may be tempted to set up on her own instead.
This dry cleaner will have this vacancy advertised for months on end with no one filling it as a result.
God, those people sound so freaking brainwashed.
"It's always your fault you can't find a job" \
....O.o
RamekGreen yea that guy is defiantly brainwashed that's exactly what I was thinking.
trouble is people with what remains of "jobs" feel like there is plenty of jobs because they are working, usually on sad pay though.
The only job they will offer a woman over 50 is is cleaning.
That consultant is not on benefits but she is being paid through the tax payer to patronise people. If you are shy you are not going to find them. And surely someone running a business will know if they need more staff without being told.
take a class in patronise course
Alot of places recruit only online. But, afew years ago,I was handing out my physical CV to various retail outlets in Stafford,and especially one particular well known high street supermarket. I went on my way, totally deflated after doing this for a few hours. Knowing that it was a total waste of my time,as I was forced into doing it by the jobcentre. 3weeks later,I had a phone call from Asda, offering me an interview. I went,and got a full time job. At the time I handed my CV to the person on the till and asked her to give it to the personnel department,I was told that all applications are done online. But,if your recruiting,and you have a physical CV in front of you,if you like what you read,then they'll get in touch with you. It worked for me.
If they never train people they will wait a long time.
As for the adviser at 02:40 who says she has 3 kids and claims no benefits? No child benefit ever then?
If you work as a job centre clerk, it's the only place that you come back to the next day if you get fired !
how much did they pay that guy to say that they helped him
I have found after a recent run in with the work program provider TCV that the people that work there have no idea what is going on. I guess if you don't go out of your way to find out how they are screwing over everyone then you are going to be ignorant. However I have not met anyone who has anything nice to say about them. We don't know that guy could have been an actor or a plant by the work provider we don't know if he really got a job or if he was even a real client. But I suppose they make the most of the occasional person they do manage to find work. Pick any work program web site and look at the bull shit stories they have on there.
They told him if he didn't do the interview he would be Sanctioned
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I have been on loads of training courses in Cheshire. There all rubbish..." It's out there if u want it, but only if u want it'.
I can tell u this, u are better off trying to help your self, because the government doesn't give a s@@t.
The DWP are ham strung, because the government cuts the the budget for courses.
For about 8hours now I've been researching Jobs and job centre plus to learn the reality of how the work force works. I have this time as I am looking for work but decided to research on some facts about the work force today. Time well spent!, I've learned allot and happy with my progress. Its interesting to see others opinion on the matter and now I have a tighter grip on the reality. Thank you for the upload, I appreciate it, been an experience.
and also not harass people to travel 3 hours each day for a low paid job
buggs alonso good point. For people who do not drive, bus fares are getting really expensive. I used to walk to the Job Centre which was two miles away, and back to save money.
'Hidden vacancies'? 'Speculative job hunting'? Are they shitting me?
havoc000A yes
Do it if it keeps them quiet.
Private companies that make money off the government for effectively viewing people as a statistic rather then a human being.
When you go for a short term contract job there's always some mythical employee who's been working solidly for them for years. Most of the time that person has been there well before the short term came in and it doesn't apply to them. No one ever bothers to explain that though.
I am unemployed, I have more qualifications than most of the advisers, I am older than the advisers, I teach computers in the scheme i am on, because the staff there are too busy, and they dont know how to do a lot of the things i know how to do.In the one i go to there are 1000 people on the books, and only 20 computers, you cannot do job search without an appointment. You are expected to do your normal job search.. and if you do get a job they will claim they got it for you..
That woman on film is lying.
fine any work his just hard fine at most recruitiment company
why can t the government say give job seekers a 2 day a week jobs doing something voluntary for their benefit rather than sending people to these silly workplaces
buggs alonso I think there are not enough places and if there were, they would be overcrowded with people.
they did "work placements" but they are unpaid, in poundland they replaced paid staff with the free staff who are told, like me "it MIGHT lead to paid work" instead it offers a company modern day slave labor, i got out of the interview though and dodged the bullet haha but for others it's not good
Well you better pray there is not a job for everyone, love.
As that'd be you out of a job.
Yes, they harrass, threaten and bully you into waiving your right to data protection.
I agree, it's worthwhile asking for work at some places even if they're not openly recruiting staff. Even when I was temporarily immobilised after an accident, I went round the city centre in a wheelchair seeking employment.
I have sent hundreds of cvs out. They are all brilliant but no replies.
Harris's CV at 5:35:
Strengths: 'I can drive, and swim'
Interests: '...Marmite'
Haha!
Love these videos. By far the best insight into the political attitudes of people across Britain that I've found.
A dedicated 'Employment Consultant'. That's a lie. How many clients on the WP have had several 'dedicated' advisers?
Drug & Alcohol issues should be dealt with by dedicated professionals at rehab centres. Debt issues can be handled by experienced debt charities or the CAB. Just how can a WP provider or sub-contractor help people with such problems if the advisers have a massive caseload of clients to sort out?
Where have all our jobs gone? and where is the trickle-down effect from QE? Sitting in offshore accounts perhaps or steadily inflating asset prices for bank coffers?
www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/11219688/Ten-million-jobs-at-risk-from-advancing-technology.html
This idea is based on the fact that money is created as an IOU in the banks ledger, and not as widely believed - savings lent.
Every time there is a loan or a mortgage granted in this debt economy where debt is created as money, there could be a percentage of that loan amount created simultaneously as its component free of debt or non-repayment money that should be spent into the economy for the social good or partly to pay down sovereign debt.
At least if the money is created as sovereign fund at the same time as debt is normally then taxes do not have to rise quite so severely on the ever diminishing workforce or the already rich, plus amounts created could relate to currency changing interactively, thereby addressing currency value fears. Why would that not help? Not sure at what rate it should be created as QE for infrastructure but that it should be I am certain.
Technology is not creating employment at the rate it is devouring available jobs, mostly unskilled jobs but increasingly also skilled automation. Software is set to replace much of a doctor’s job with improved computer & mobile gadgetry set to interact. One medical specialist can perform 600 operations of the same type across several hospitals remotely & simultaneously. 24 sleek black automatic check out machines are installed at my local supermarket, what about yours? Google cars? (no drivers). Warehouses - all automation driven by software created from study of insect movements in colonies.
Unfortunately politicians seem unable to design an appropriate economic structure to reflect these ongoing and imminent changes so instead of embracing these welcome & efficient developments they invent low paid work.
2:45 3 Children NO Child BENEFIT she says!!!!
Ironic, really.....the TV company "employs" a guy to follow him and film his search for work.
Just do on specs to keep the JC quiet.
Not sure how "true" this show really is. Let's be honest, most of this is pre-arranged, as it's doubtful any company would be receptive if you just turned up unannounced with a TV crew.
hidden jobs......wtf is going on in this country...so lets say i did not ask asda say when they at dwp ask me i can get my wellfair payments sanctiond......wtf
Those young lads at the beginning, I would take them more seriously if they would pull their hoods down and take their hats off. There is enough well earned prejudice against young people as it is,,,, it doesn't help if you maintain the stereotype.
Enlighten me
Theirs not a job everyone out there .
Agreed.
Attitude of the employer's/guys in the dry cleaners and music shop fucking sucks - basically admitting they cant even be bothered now making the effort 2 train people, - cuz they don't have to, wat a shitty attitude to take with someone who wants to work feel bad 4 any1 with learning difficulties mental health and disability issues with manager pricks like that and these so called advisors breathing down your neck (i.e. scum) ''u must conform you must be conditioned to be perfect'' BALLS I SAY!
oh there's tons of jobs...if you call slavery a job.. working 40 hours a week on the bare minimum wage when rent is at least two months wages
Being honest! The job I have today, (worked there over five years) it wasn't the job I hope for. It was something I found within the company that made for better incentive. This could be the meaning about "hidden vacancies". Sometimes researching the companies that are employing people is a better starting place. What I found hidden within advertised vacancies, a lot of cons and sales/marketing... time wasters!!! I can see the point with CV (but that's a one in a million chance). The more substance vacancies usually have their own application procedure. I found its a mind field how employers advertise, so the old school could be compromised because of the web. I must say that "nothing with any substance came from jobsites"!!!
" Hidden Jobs". I use to walk all round the industry parks and ask for vacancies.
I got told no. Most jobs are temp or to early to get , too with out a car. No buses at 6am.
I was told on a dwp course, there would be jobs at vaxhall & then u read there laying off .
It's a con & we have been pushed out of the job market.
Its a con from start to finished
That's bullshit I have experience in groundworks as maintenance worker gt nvq level 2 ,I gt laid off due to cuts now I've been unemployed nearly 2yr I've been on work programme for a year with companies they have done fuck all for me they are shit !
hidden jobs.
@Invesigator whats funny is the mandatory work placement. giving yet more "hidden" jobs to the unemployed (at even less pay) when these jobs should be used to fully employ the people who would have otherwise applied for them.
I appreciate the video... very insightful to see some positive thinkers on the subject... sadly according to statistics, (however reliable)... when A4e only manage to get 3/100 people back into work... it's very difficult to sustain much hope :\
I have to admit, there really are loads and loads of jobs out there, but the kind of jobs people often look for, often don't exist, or do exist and have a ridiculous amount of applicants (100 applicants to 1 position, for example).
As formerly being on the dole, I must admit that there is a culture in claiming but not actually applying. Applying to 50 jobs in a month and only getting 1 reply isn't just dissapointing, but makes you wonder what the point is in even bothering.
This is added to the fact that it is so easy to lie to your advisor.
Omg is she for real, a ducking who can afford to go in a pub-
1 was olny 16 hour week job
Why has the reporter in this video got a woman's hairstyle?
Agency's
lol allegedly not... smh.
Bull
oh there's tons of jobs...if you call slavery a job.. working 40 hours a week on the bare minimum wage when rent is at least two months wages