Job Centre Plus

Jobcentre Plus is a government division that works alongside DWP. They handle benefit claims and dealing with the general public, aswell as helping people back into work. In addition to unemployment benefits they also deal with claims for housing benefit and council tax. If you're looking for work then you can attend your local Jocentre and search their database for vacancies. In some cases, you can either choose to apply for the job at the Jobcentre although in my experience I've always found it best to apply independently. When an employer finds out your applying via the Jobcentre they tend to get the impression that you may be a 'dole bum' and are just ...  Read the complete review

Unemployment levels are set to rise to 2.60 Million amidst all the ramblings of Chancellor Alistair Darlings March Speech when he denoted all will be well by the end of 2009 and we will see green shoots of growth. Growth means jobs and jobs mean productivity; yet the amount of rhetorical middle class bureaucratic sound-bites is enough to send any jobless member to consume half litre of French Brandy within a weekend; while smirking haplessly through the Sunday Times. If, it was about results we in the UK were after and jobs depended on the job market will be abundant of top quality white collar positions; which true Brits will be fly fishing for; but it isn't. Top draw ...  Read the complete review

1-in-5 people don't work 1-in-5 people are old 1-in-5 people study 1-in-5 people are kids 1-in-5 people work in the public service. One of the great ironies of recession is the job centre has to start laying people off just as they get busy, the governments loss of income tax revue through high unemployment meaning they have to cut its public spend across the board. In fact over 250 Job centres have closed in the last three years alone. Once the public service job cuts begin in full in 2010 the unemployment rate will seriously rise, the Job Centres stretched even more. The public service under Blair and Brown had just become a job creation ...  Read the complete review

Having recently graduated and been left with nothing but a part time casual job, I decided that it might be of some use to me to try to claim Jobseeker's Allowance as it may help me to find a job. Wrong! This review will focus on my experience of tryiong to claim Jobseeker's and find a job using their service. I found the whole system to be an absolute joke. My first contact was a half hour phone interview, where they took all of my details of income and working pattern. This was fine - the person on the other end of the phone was pleasant and polite. However, from this point on I had nothing but problems with the service. The next appointment I could get was ...  Read the complete review

Introduction The Job Centre is suppose to be help given to those looking for work or on benefits. The centre has job points with new jobs put on a daily basis and has over hundreds of people coming in daily. They have about 20 new jobs daily at my local not much but a lot of people still come. You can use the phones in the centre to apply for work saving you money from not ringing from your phone. If you claim benefits they can give you some money every two weeks. It was not much help in my case they were given me just 101.50 when I was on this two months ago. You had to sign on and be treated like a kid of their staff. The experience I ...  Read the complete review