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Employment Advice Worker

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Newest Review: ... pay them £10 an hour to drive an expensive vehicle around their warehouse when the person had no concept of how a warehouse operates. They were mostly unwilling to even participate in work experience in a warehouse to find out if it was an environment they were willing to work in. Am I sounding negative? I won’t even pretend that I’m not. We would hold interview techniques sessions, to ... more

... discuss how to behave appropriately in an interview. We would do role plays with them and we (the staff) would pretend to be an interviewee and ask a couple of the clients to be the interviewers, give them a sheet with random interview questions on a...more

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Employment Advice Worker: This Job Can Send You Spiralling Into Depression (2334 words)
by - written on 29/06/07 (Very useful, 595 readings)
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I’m going to discuss Employment Advice Workers in respect of people working with unemployed people also referred to as jobseekers. I worked for over 3.5 years in training providers – working with long term unemployed people for the last 2 years in one job as a Team Leader but often having to cover for staff shortages so working directly as an “Employment Advice Worker”, although in my particular company we were called Client Advisors. The “clients” were long term unemployed people sent to us from the Job Centre to gain various skills which I’ll discuss shortly. This is not a job for the faint-hearted. It’s quite stressful but can also be rewarding. ... Read the complete review

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