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do the job centres still offer any sort of financial help with this sort of thing?

even if it's a loan?

or do they just sanction the fuck out of you if you turn down the job because you can't afford this sort of shit?
 
Puddy_Tat said:
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do the job centres still offer any sort of financial help with this sort of thing?

even if it's a loan?

or do they just sanction the fuck out of you if you turn down the job because you can't afford this sort of shit?
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They offer you fuck all now. I missed out on two jobs previoulsy because I needed to produce my 'Full' birth cert. I only had the small one (the full one is £23.40 quick despatch) I asked a few times and my 'coach' said they couldn't do it. It was only when someone who knew they could approached them and tada they coughed up for it.
Just called the docs and Admin said it would cost me because, " doing this sort of thing takes us away from what we are actually supposed to be doing". Not too bad, if they have evidence of my bcg etc it will be £5
I'd happily give her another fiver if it stopped her being a miserable, snotty mare.
 
Does anyone know if there is a Prince's Trust type org for the more mature person. My Google Fu says no but it's a new area to me.
 
Ugh. So, I made it to he semifinals of a job application and had to do an IT test but failed by 2% because I have completely forgotten how to use Windows after using macs for so long.
I'm sure I can find an online course to do or maybe I need to reconsider my plan of applying for office jobs and formulate another plan.
Have been thinking of volunteering so I can at least say that I've been doing something rather than nothing.

Ah well
 
ShiftyBagLady said:
Ugh. So, I made it to he semifinals of a job application and had to do an IT test but failed by 2% because I have completely forgotten how to use Windows after using macs for so long.
I'm sure I can find an online course to do or maybe I need to reconsider my plan of applying for office jobs and formulate another plan.
Have been thinking of volunteering so I can at least say that I've been doing something rather than nothing.

Ah well
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I got a friend to go through the Windows OP with me - I had only ever used macs and had no idea how to do the most basic stuff ( like turning the machine off!) after one session I managed to blag a job. I had to wait for the boss to go out of the room on my first morning so I could phone a friend on the first morning to ask where to find the @ symbol on the keyboard.

Volunteering should give you some good practice.
 
Hmm, well I've just received two emails asking me to do a DBS check and book a pre-emoloyyment interview. So, maybe they're being generous (though the guy did say several times that you'd fail if you didn't get above 70% and I got a woeful 68% :facepalm: :oops: )
We'll see.
 
friendofdorothy said:
maybe everyone else was even more woeful!
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Think it may be a mistake. One of the emails say to print some forms attached to my conditional offer email but I've not received that.
I'll give them a ring on Monday.

But yeah, let's hope we were all appalling!
It was a horrible experience. I was sat right at the spot that the blinds didn't cover and the sun was shining straight in my face the whole time and towards the end I started getting unusual and unexpected period cramps :(
Maybe I'm just constitutionally incompatible with work
 
It's terrifying to see so many spelling mistakes and grammatical errors on an electronic application form for a educational institution. Makes me reconsider my application or perhaps screenshot the lot and send them via email with red marks all over them!

"Are you registered online with The Discloure and Barring Service?" :facepalm:
 
:hmm:

A colleague's Twitter feed has just fired up a link to a job advert. I'm not really looking for a new job - I only got the one I've wanted for years six months ago - but things are a bit shaky here and I'm not 100% confident about my future, and this one is much better paid, will probably offer an easier life and fewer hours than I'm having to do now, and it's in commutable distance of where I live now. It's a long shot, but perhaps worth a try...
 
Roadkill said:
:hmm:

A colleague's Twitter feed has just fired up a link to a job advert. I'm not really looking for a new job - I only got the one I've wanted for years six months ago - but things are a bit shaky here and I'm not 100% confident about my future, and this one is much better paid, will probably offer an easier life and fewer hours than I'm having to do now, and it's in commutable distance of where I live now. It's a long shot, but perhaps worth a try...
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tbh, not needing a job is usually the best position to apply for a job from.

so long as it won't land you in the shit with your current employer if they find out you have applied, then i'd say keep your options open and give it a go. even if it gets as far as an offer, you don't have to accept if you don't think it's for you.

although you may need to be ready to answer the question (which will be in the interviewers' minds even if they don't ask outright) why you're looking to leave a job you've been in for such a short time.

and whether having such a short term job on your CV might look bad if you are job hunting again in a few years.

you know your line of work and how people in it think better than I do, of course...

best of luck if you do go for it.
 
Puddy_Tat said:
tbh, not needing a job is usually the best position to apply for a job from.

so long as it won't land you in the shit with your current employer if they find out you have applied, then i'd say keep your options open and give it a go. even if it gets as far as an offer, you don't have to accept if you don't think it's for you.

although you may need to be ready to answer the question (which will be in the interviewers' minds even if they don't ask outright) why you're looking to leave a job you've been in for such a short time.

and whether having such a short term job on your CV might look bad if you are job hunting again in a few years.

you know your line of work and how people in it think better than I do, of course...

best of luck if you do go for it.
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Decision made: I'm going for it. I'll have to ask my HoD for a reference, which I'll do quietly tomorrow morning - he and I go back a long way and he'll understand my position. The chances of my getting the job are vanishingly small, but I've concluded I'd be a fool to let the opportunity slip by.
 
Roadkill said:
Decision made: I'm going for it. I'll have to ask my HoD for a reference, which I'll do quietly tomorrow morning - he and I go back a long way and he'll understand my position. The chances of my getting the job are vanishingly small, but I've concluded I'd be a fool to let the opportunity slip by.
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is it the sort of thing where you can ask that references are only sought after further discussion?
 
Roadkill said:
Decision made: I'm going for it. I'll have to ask my HoD for a reference, which I'll do quietly tomorrow morning - he and I go back a long way and he'll understand my position. The chances of my getting the job are vanishingly small, but I've concluded I'd be a fool to let the opportunity slip by.
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If I was you I wouldn't tell HoD unless you get an interview - they shouldn't check refs before that anyway.
 
Wookey said:
I have my first job interview tomorrow after 6 months of being doley scum! Wish me luck! :)
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hope it goes well

friendofdorothy said:
If I was you I wouldn't tell HoD unless you get an interview - they shouldn't check refs before that anyway.
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most employers don't seek references until they have made a provisional job offer, although some will do once they have shortlisted. may be worth asking what the deal is (with some application forms, you get a tick box for 'please don't seek references without further discussion' or some such.)

most potential employers will understand that people might not want their current employers to know they are applying for other jobs...
 
Just had an interview for a possible promotion away from Service Desk, I'm supposedly a dead cert. Think it went well, breezed through

Fucking bricking it, I find out Weds, some arse in my team applied for it as well, despite taking no interest in the field ever.

Gnngh.
 
friendofdorothy said:
how did it go? fingers still crossed x
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I got a call just now - it seems the crossed fingers worked! I am now the new Senior Press Officer at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry!

I left my last job at the Trafford Centre as it was inconsistent with my personal beliefs, and that schism was making me very ill indeed. Six months of being free of that place has made me a different person, and I feel I've finally got a job I can be proud of, and which isn't contributing towards the rape if the planet, and the diminishing of humans, but rather the evolution of humans, and an inspiration for future generations of kids who might invent.... Ooh, time travel or something. :)

Thank fuck for the welfare state for looking after me for six months, thank fuck I'm away from that capitalist cesspool, and roll on my first day on Feb 8th...which happens to be my birthday week.

Thanks for the kind wishes too everyone, if I could now put in an order for world peace, the death of Donald Trump and a return ticket to Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas I would be much obliged. ;)
 
Oooo bugger me. The universe works in strange ways. I was just applying for a job I actually quite like the sound of. Finished that, back to my inbox and the job I applied for that I was wondering about which is going back to what I was doing 8 years or so ago, have asked me to interview!! I'm stunned frankly as I was more than a little unconventional on the application form :D
 
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