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“Job Centre's or Job Centre Plus as it's called...”

written by Mastermind123 on 13/02/2011

Job Centre's or Job Centre Plus as it's called nowadays have gone to the dogs and are completely useless, the people that work in them now are largely made up of not very competent staff who are not really interested in whether their clients get a suitable job or not, all they care about is getting rid of people off the figures as quick as they can so they look better and appear as if they are finding jobs for people.



I lost my job last year and had been in employed in the same place for 10 years, before that when I had to sign on for a while and look for a job, the Job Centers weren't that brilliant even then but the one redeeming feature they had was that they acted as a go between you and the employer and they made that initial call which is important, because sometimes and often, when you lose your job it can take a while to get back in gear and get full confidence back so I often found that them making that first call helped.



Nowadays, they don't even do that, you select a vacancy from the touch screen, print it out and apply yourself, either by way of sending your CV via the employers email or you ring them yourself, so what's the point in the Job Centre Plus when you can do all that yourself without even going into the place?.



I therefore conclude that the only reason these Job Centre Plus's exist now is for the sole purpose of covertly harassing clients into getting off the unemployment figures and if they have to eventually, they will find an excuse to stop peoples benefits so that they are still taken off the figures, either way they will call it their job "done" and the Government as Governments have often done in the past can then use these figures to boast about how unemployment has "gone down" under them .



Much of the way Job Centre Plus's subtley harass their unemployed clients IS because of Government pressure on them to make the figures look good, they have always done this but now it's even worse than ever, so Job Centre Plus is not where I would recommend anyone to look for a job, much better off looking online or in papers, when I do eventually get back to work it will be no thanks to Job Centre Plus, in fact, without their interference in getting me applying for unsuitable things and wasting my time I would have been able to find a new suitable job much faster, they are more of a hindrance than a help to me and to many others.