This has always been a riddle to me!?

Question

how is it that you get pressured to get yourself a job, so you go to the jobcentre only to be told that there are no jobs to suit you,every job you go for is taken. so what i want to know is, how can i get a job like the person that sits behind the desk in yhe job centre that tells you that you cant get a job? where do they advertise for these jobs?

p.s the reason it has taken me so long to get out to work is because now my son is in to full time school i have all day to myself to go get something that suits me. didnt think it was fair to bring myself a youngster in to my life just to bog off out and leave the responsibility of bringing up my child in the hands of someone else. now its time for me to do something with my me time while the youngster is at school x

Answer 1

Did you want a boring job, where you had to tell people day in and day out that there is NOTHING?

OK, you are looking for a job. Here is how you use the jobcenter to your benefit. Ask them about job councelling. Ask them about free training programs. Ask them if they help write resumes and help people to improve their interview skills. But when you look at their job lists..... you are looking at the bottom of the barrel. Look through the newspapers and online job lists yourself. Improve your resume and post it at Monster.com and other job websites. You've got to become a salesperson, selling who you are and what you can do. Make yourself appear to be THE BEST.

Answer 2

I don't think that you really want a job at all. Why are you saying that you are pressurised into getting yourself a job? You do it if you want to. The only reason that you would be pressurised is because you are claiming dole money and really should be working.
I was on the dole once and when I went to see the girl behind the desk, I did ask why it took so long to get an appointment. Understaffed, she told me! - Where's the application form, I asked! Filled it in and was accepted for interview - but in the meantime, I had found myself a 'proper' job!
It all comes down to working it out for yourself. If you want to work, you will. If you don't want to work, then you won't.

Answer 3

These are not directly advertised as such, after all, sitting in a job center and accepting applicants is a just an out-of-the routine function. These people belong to the recruitment and selection divisions of the personnel department of companies. Finish a degree in Industrial Psychology or Organizational Management and you'd consider recruitment and selection as something to be assigned to others as you have higher concerns.

Answer 4

Six years ago... when my marriage ended, I went to the job centre after spending twenty-three years at home freelancing as a writer, running my ex's business, and home educating my youngest (now out in the world paying taxes) and hoped my skills might afford a regular income.

A kid of no more than 20 sat at her computer, and after two solid hours of interviews that she'd sent me on within their department, and concluded, "You've learned too much, you'd frighten potential employers, we can't help you." Her tone was somewhere between a reprimand and surprise, as if she expected me to forget my life experience and play dumb, like the uneducated housewife she'd assumed I was at the outset!

I almost burst out laughing, but amazingly she wasn't wrong... and that's the worst of it, because many employers I've spoken with since then, said they feared if they interviewed me, they did fear I might want their job (at my age, don't be b****y daft!)

I am forced to face the changes in a different kind of employer to the confident and self made men of my day... who interviewed at once... knew exactly what they wanted, and took a gamble that usually paid off... compared to them, today's employers/managers are insecure graduates.

We didn't need job centres... we hoofed it round our town and got on the spot selection, without all the stupid red tape and positive discrimination rules! There isn't a job I haven't done inside my time, and I didn't need a computer to do my thinking for me, it happened in my head!

This modern way of doing things is creating nothing but a service industry, a country without produce, too many chiefs with bits of paper, qualifications, that in the end, wont be worth the ink in life, that they're printed with.

Which is why this country is going down the pan!

Answer 5

Its a Civil Service position, when you see a recruitment drive in the local paper, apply, you need 2 O'levels (or GCSE equivelent) to get in, there is a Civil Service entrance test that you can sit if you don't have the qualifications. Then once you are working for the Civil Service, you can check the vacancies within various departments and apply for the posts.

Answer 6

These jobs are not advertised you have to go into the building and talk to the manager/ boss and say you work hard and you will work from the bottom to rise to the top you will do anything just give me a chance i wont dissapoint you and give them your resume- you have to search without looking in the career's guide

Answer 7

Tell them you want to do their job. They are civil service jobs and have grades like

CA/AA Clerical/Administrative Assistant 2 GSCEs
CO/AO ditto Officer 4 GCSEs
EO Executive Officer 2 A levels
HEO Higher EO Degree
SEO Senior EO

The pay isn't very good especially assistants and officers.

Answer 8

I think the job centres troll hospitals looking for prospective employees - Job requirements:- must be in a coma.

Answer 9

They are advertised in local papers usually, but beware ya do need qualifications other than fobbing folk off when they have nothing for you, best bet is ignore them and write to companies yourself,telling them what sort of position you would like and what your qualifications are plus your age etc

Answer 10

exactly true everytime i go the job centre i always get "there isnt any jobs to suit you yet" i already no that as im looking everyday and its the same old jobs which r there. it gets annoying.