Job Centre Reviews

It's been a couple of years now since I had to fling myself on the tender mercies of the Job Centre, and I thank God for that. Not that the staff there weren't helpful when I was unemployed - I know they certainly tried their best. But sadly, just like any other recruitment agency, the Job Centre don't have the magic ability ...  Read the complete review

Job Centre The Jobcentre is a very difficult place to sum up. On the one hand the staff are delivering goverment policies that have been introduced to try and put and end to long term unemployment, unemployment due to health problems, whole families being benefit dependant and to the rid the offices of the general ...  Read the complete review

The Job centre sends shivers down my spine - and not in a good way. It's like walking into the roughest pub in town what with the security guards, obvious smack-heads and general burberry wearing oiks. Now, I'm not a snob. I wander round happily in my hoody and have been known to go Tesco in pyjamas (getting dressed is such hard work) ...  Read the complete review

Don't go to job centre for employment. They have computers installed to give you latest details about latest jobs. In actual effect though jobs advertised here are not attractive and often in other parts of the country. For the best jobs use employment agencies they get paid by the employer for taking you on and therefore provide a ...  Read the complete review

UK Jobcentres have had more than their fair share of troubles over the last few years, though recent changes in the benefits system seems to have improved things quite a lot. There are still plenty of flaws though. I remember the days of having to queue up in the DSS whilst people who had been waiting for hours would be starting to ...  Read the complete review

INTRODUCTION -------------------- I know this review will make a few people angry; I too used to get wound up at people who 'couldn't be bothered to work'. I understand your views but please don't get annoyed at me. I have a degree that may as well be printed on toilet paper as no matter how hard I try it is not good enough or ...  Read the complete review

Contrary to popular opinion the Job Centre Plus/Unemployment office is not full of immigrants and asylum seekers but white under class trash, regiments of baseball capped Chavs doing what their patents do-Nothing! The asylum seekers and immigrants that do want to work and have come here for that reason are ironically denied the use of ...  Read the complete review

I have to agree with all concerned regarding the gentleman (Cwmarsham) about the JOKE centre & his experience. It is very true what all of you are expressing in the way these joke centre's operate. I will have been unemployed for 18 months by march 30th 2007. One occasion I was signing on & after wards the ...  Read the complete review

I have dealt with Job Centre Plus on three separate levels and thought I'd discuss two levels here, the third level being inappropriate as I worked with them as in a partner business so morally I feel it might be unfair to disclose information gained about their practices here. So the two areas I'm going to look at are about ...  Read the complete review

I don’t know if this is because of the policies the staff has to abide by or if it is the staff after this you can make up you mind. In January I had an operation that spelt the end of my career in the railway industry at the time I was signing on sick until April. When I went for my first review they told me they had training ...  Read the complete review

In a couple of months time as the summer draws to a close so also will come to a close my happy and enjoyable relationship with the job centre. Actually you can substitute necessary and tolerable for happy and enjoyable. After 16 years with the same company the opportunity to get a nice redundancy package and the chance to change career ...  Read the complete review

Hopefully I have captured your attention, there are no real confessions (not of the steamy sort) but I hope you will read on. I’ve read a few reviews on job centres and can see both sides; I’d like you to share my own experiences and to know that some of us are human. There are a lot of misconceptions about civil servants, ...  Read the complete review

I am a student who has recently completed several years of studying Information Technology. I am currently not working at all so I have registered with my local Jobcentre Plus office (What's with the Plus? that's what i'd like to know). I have been signing on for approximately eight weeks, and in which I have applied for a wide range of ...  Read the complete review

Hi folks, Job centreplus is such a great aspect of the 21st century, with a classy website, helpful staff and a huge selection of jobs that will suit everyone. Since leaving school i have had a number of jobs and all of which have come from the jobcentre and they are not dead end jobs either. I think they offer great jobs to young ...  Read the complete review

I used to have an incredibly soul destroying, mindless job. It was the kind of job where time seems to run slower and slower everyday, until you feel as though you're going backwards, not forwards. It spoilt my days off- everything I did was a count down to working again. I cut down my hours- this didn't help at all, just made me ...  Read the complete review

When I was claiming JSA (an insulting title for a benefit if there was one; thanks, John Major!) my local jobcentre was in the middle of being updated. Now they have touch screen monitors too. This made it a lot easier for many to look for jobs whilst waiting to sign on, but hang on.... ...what did my screen say? ...  Read the complete review

I visited my local Job Centre yesterday and I was absolutely gobsmacked. For a start it had moved. I turned up at where the Job centre used to be to find a note on the door saying it had moved to the Benefits office. So after I trekked right over to the other side of Blackburn Town Centre I found…The Job Centre ...  Read the complete review

The job centre is really good I go here because I don’t have a job anymore because I was not really up to standard like my boss said I did work at McDonalds for 5 years but I have not got a job there anymore because I burnt my leg on the fries fryer and my boss looked in the accident book and my name was in there to much ...  Read the complete review

Ok, here goes. It's not easy to say this, faces fall when I do and a hush descends but, I WORK IN THE JOBCENTRE. I'm not proud of it, don't particularly enjoy it but it is a job which pays. Not very well, contrary to popular belief (starting salary outside London is just over £10k plus pay rises of a couple of ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this opinion from the other side as if it were. Part of my job as a Personnel Administrator is to place adverts with various agencies to find staff. I have used the job centre on several occasions, all with the same result! On visiting the job centre as a prospective employer the layout is very good with ...  Read the complete review