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well said ste

i don't understand this------work for your dole---but were are the jobs? if they can create jobs for working for your dole,why can't they create jobs with a decent wage so you can come off the dole? what this country wants is slave labour! work for a pittence!!think i heard once that these employers who take on people who work for there dole get a payment for doing so.
i say if they can create jobs for dole money then they can create proper jobs!

Its creating jobs to help the community and gets people back into the swing of doing a days hard graft. How many people on the dole actually spend the whole day averyday searching for work?

There's three different types of dolites in my view;

1. Genuinely can't find a job;
2. Don't want a job;
3. Can't work through no fault of their own i.e. disability/illness.

Those that fall into category 1, I'm sure, could try harder.

Those in category 2 should be sent to war/castrated/put in a bad with bricks and chucked in the Mersey.

Those in category 3 who are less able and therefore have been dealt perhaps a poor hand in life should be helped by those of us who have been fairly lucky in that we're able to work.

through the recession we have gained a lot of your number 1
the people in category number 2 are the only people who have not been effected by the financial meltdown
and people in number 3 like you say its so hard for them and do need more help as they are genuine.

my son for one! he sends application after application,phones,emails, and half of them don't even reply!some say he needs a driving licence,how is he supposed to get one if he has'nt got a job to pay for the lessons? or they say need experiance,how do they get it if they can't get the job? what ever happened to learning on the job? the only way to get experiance is to get the job?

there is courses available and people to support job applications has he looked into this, i no how hard it is not to have a job, being in university at the moment im pretty limited to what am allowed to do as employers want a permanent role to be filled which i can not offer at the moment

I agree with you, its a catch 22 situation. What sort of job is he looking for? How old is he? And what job experience has he got? Sounds to me he is trying very hard indeed. Tell him to E-mail a cv to [email protected]

There are plenty of people out there with both experience and a driving license and in this climate employers have their pick of the bunch. I agree it sounds like a vicious circle.

Tell him to join the army and learn a trade, that's where it's at.

My son had a job in admin till the goverment came up with all these cuts, and made more people unemployed.

I agree with you, its a catch 22 situation. What sort of job is he looking for? How old is he? And what job experience has he got? Sounds to me he is trying very hard indeed. Tell him to E-mail a cv to [email protected] [/quote]

he's 34,has been on courses that the dole have sent him on,which were gardening,painting and decorating etc,etc,can't remember how many he's been on! but never a job at the end of them,and he was always told there would be a job at the end,he does'nt want factory work,which i don't blame him,he wants outdoors.

I applied for a driving job last week by email. The next day i got an email reply saying that they are receiving over 300 applications a day for the one job.

At least the guy was thoughtful enough to email me.

The week previously i applied for a temporary driving job for xmas. I was suprised to see many other applicants at the interview dressed in suits / ties looking more like they were attending a wedding rather than a low paid temporary job interview.

Times Are Hard indeed !

What surprises you about that!?

I'd never attend an interview without being fully suited and booted inc. tie, anyone who does is an idiot.

There's no such thing as being over dressed when it comes to an interview. Self respect.

ive been at an interview were someone turned up in a sports shirt haha

One less competitor for the job then.