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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
I'm really sorry to hear about your misfortune.
Having been in that situation from February and secured a job last Friday starting in 2 weeks time, I can well sympathise.
So from my experience, let me give you a few tips; after all, I applied for over 750 jobs in 9 months.
A posting above suggested web ssites such as Total Jobs, Monster, etc. Don't bother with them. The best two sites are Indeed.co.uk and Jobrapido,co,uk
These two sites trawl every employment and recruitment site in the UK, listing every available job going. You can fine tune your requirements rigfht down to an individual town, so if you are looking for, say, a Pheasant Pluckers job in Penzance (well, you might!!) you can set up an email alert for that job and you'll get notifications.
When you sign on at the Job Centre, they will expect you to drop your slary expectations. I was on £23k pa when made redundant. I cut all my monthly outgoings drastically, and sought jobs at around £14k; the Job Centre reckoned £16k minimum (to start with). But it all depends on your area.
Get your CV sorted out; avoid companies like The Fuller CV, who'll do nothing but paint doom and gloom, just so they can "sell" you their CV services at £600 a pop.
Do you have a Mortgage? A lot of Mortgage companies, even PPI providers have free back to work assistance programmes, who'll do free CV advice and change sessions for you.
Find out if there are any Job Centre sponsored Job clubs or Back to Work providors companies in your area. Your local Job Centre won't tell you this voluntarily; you have to prompt them.
I got back into work by looking at an old career, and within which, what was I good at. You have to look at things outside your comfort zone.
If you get an inter_iew in another area, ensure you get the Job Centre to sort out a TIS appointment before you go, that is, Travel To Inter_iew! They'll sort out a travel warrant for you and if you have to stay away overnight, will pay B&B costs for you. If you have a car, don't use that, as Job Centres will only pay inter_iew travel expenses on using your car, if public transport options weren't available at all.
The above plus all of the other suggestions will hopefully get you through.
The main important thing is that even though the Job Centre system can be shambolic at times, there is work out there, and something will turn up.
Do voluntary work; be careful what you do, as some Job Centres frown on some work, but it can earn you "Brownie Points" and goes down well with Job Centres.
Good Luck!
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i hope that you find something quick
