answerbank job club if your unemployed

[zzxxee]

and looking for work like me i thought we could start a job club you no give each other support and swap tips on interview techiques what do you think
good /bad idea????

[tonyav]

MWB, steelworks and that sort of thing. i have got an overhead crane and f l t licence though.

[MWB]

f l t licence?

[zzxxee]

fork lift truck

[MWB]

Oh, ok.

I have one of those.

Well, they'd be of no use in a gold or coal mine, tony. :(

[zzxxee]

i wonder which answerbanker has been out of work the longest and how many interviews did they attend before being offered a full time job?

[marval]

Well they stopped having job clubs where I live. So I think I will join this one, good idea. I have been unemployed over a year, too many people for not enough jobs. I have an appointment next time I am due to sign on, to talk about New deal. I hope they can come up with something new, unfortunately I am 58 and most employers consider me too old, especially when they can employ someone younger and pay them less.

There, that is my moan over.

[zzxxee]

well marval maybe your experience and mature advice can bring some words of wisdom to our job club

what name shall we give ourselves?

[tonyav]

the unemployed job seekers.

[zzxxee]

or ujs for short i like it

[marval]

I agree with not always knowing what they want, some adverts are quite misleading. Another thing I have found is that a lot of adverts state must be able to drive(I don't) They will get someone to work out of two places, cheaper than employing two people.

I answered an ad once, all it had in it was a job title and a phone number. I was invited to go for an interview, great so far. They then asked me back for a second interview, only then did I find out they wanted me to start there and then. The job turned out to be nothing like I expected, unfortunately the majority of people who phoned up were Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, but I got fed up saying no I don't speak Mandarin, I felt like saying I don't speak it but I do eat it.

The boss decided I was not suitable for the job, a little more information and honesty and we could have both saved our time.