Thursday 30 August 2012
One in a million.: Volunteer your way into work!
One in a million.: Volunteer your way into work!: I joined 'do-it' last week, it's the national volunteering website which you are linked to if you search for positions on the job centre web...
Volunteer your way into work!
I joined 'do-it' last week, it's the national volunteering website which you are linked to if you search for positions on the job centre website. I was amazed to find how positions there were, i typed in Hull as my town and up to 10 miles radius I was willing to travel - there was 402 positions which needed filling. I only made it to page 9 and I had already applied for 12 positions.
Some of the positions I applied for were;
-Cafe Helper
-Young Person Supporter
-Shop Volunteer Red Cross
-Digital Champion
-House Guide
-Publicity Officer
-Fundraiser Volunteer
-Street Angel
-Car Boot Sales Volunteer
-Barnados Retail Assistant
-Dove House Retail Assistant.
Although I obviously won't be able to do all of these, I am hoping to try and juggle two maybe because many of them only require you on an afternoon twice a week, or on a Friday and Saturday night. Also, in this time I does need to continue my search for a job! (it's not going great!) So I can't just volunteer for 40 hours a week - I have bills to pay!
However, this is going to sound cliche but volunteering isn't just something good to write on your CV, even though technically it is! Volunteering is a great way to gain experience and skills, it is a way to network - imagine if you make an impression on someone, when a job comes up they may think of you first to offer it to? And lets not forget, volunteering is a great way to give something back to a community project which really needs more people helping to keep it open, imagine how many people you are helping. Although you don't tend to see any tangible rewards, you can't help but feel like you've done good. When I worked with the British Red Cross it was a great experience, I met some fantastic people and really got to grips with how important a charity shop is to a community, as you recognize the same faces each week. (-that sounds really judgmental it's not meant to be. Soz)
To those who I know who are searching hard for work, volunteering isn't a permanent decision but it something easy to get into which most times requires no experience (hallelujah!!), training given and you walk away with some new skills. Think about it. DO IT!
http://www.do-it.org.uk/
The rest is up to you.
As usual, leave a comment, they are always welcome!
Orrrr, give us a tweet! @DebStevo90
Hope you enjoy! Thanks for reading! Good luck!
Some of the positions I applied for were;
-Cafe Helper
-Young Person Supporter
-Shop Volunteer Red Cross
-Digital Champion
-House Guide
-Publicity Officer
-Fundraiser Volunteer
-Street Angel
-Car Boot Sales Volunteer
-Barnados Retail Assistant
-Dove House Retail Assistant.
Although I obviously won't be able to do all of these, I am hoping to try and juggle two maybe because many of them only require you on an afternoon twice a week, or on a Friday and Saturday night. Also, in this time I does need to continue my search for a job! (it's not going great!) So I can't just volunteer for 40 hours a week - I have bills to pay!
However, this is going to sound cliche but volunteering isn't just something good to write on your CV, even though technically it is! Volunteering is a great way to gain experience and skills, it is a way to network - imagine if you make an impression on someone, when a job comes up they may think of you first to offer it to? And lets not forget, volunteering is a great way to give something back to a community project which really needs more people helping to keep it open, imagine how many people you are helping. Although you don't tend to see any tangible rewards, you can't help but feel like you've done good. When I worked with the British Red Cross it was a great experience, I met some fantastic people and really got to grips with how important a charity shop is to a community, as you recognize the same faces each week. (-that sounds really judgmental it's not meant to be. Soz)
To those who I know who are searching hard for work, volunteering isn't a permanent decision but it something easy to get into which most times requires no experience (hallelujah!!), training given and you walk away with some new skills. Think about it. DO IT!
http://www.do-it.org.uk/
The rest is up to you.
As usual, leave a comment, they are always welcome!
Orrrr, give us a tweet! @DebStevo90
Hope you enjoy! Thanks for reading! Good luck!
Tuesday 28 August 2012
One in a million.: Job Centre - update about the 22/08/2012
One in a million.: Job Centre - update about the 22/08/2012: So today I got a phone call from a lovely woman at the job centre. This woman was ringing to apologize for the lack of communication among h...
Job Centre - update about the 22/08/2012
So today I got a phone call from a lovely woman at the job centre. This woman was ringing to apologize for the lack of communication among her staff last week in regard to me. She could not have been more apologetic! I said it was fine, I was just frustrated because I hadn't been informed and then when I said I was unable to work to what they had rearranged, I looked like a fussy bitch!
ANYHOW, so she's ringing me for another reason - to cancel the bloody appointment set up for me last week because there was now no point because they had missed their targets. It's all about targets in these places, what if this group session had been valuable to me finding work huh? Didn't think about that one did ya Dave!
So, instead of me having to go to this session tomorrow, I am now back to seeing my adviser in a weeks time! What an utter mess about eh! I can't complain about this woman on the phone because she couldn't have been nicer and explained that none of what had happened was my fault (TRU DAT) but that her team made a "monumental cock-up" (again, tru dat).
I also told her I don't want to become one of the notorious (bursts into song) job seekers who week after week causes problems because this wasn't my fault and I was hoping to not have any more incidents like this. She told me that what happened wasn't even a mark on my record, she had to ring to make sure that everyone was clear that it was their fault. When I put the phone down I just laughed and laughed thinking, there is no wonder this country is up shit creek when the people they hire to help you find a job don't even have a bloody clue what they're doing.
Anyhow, there will be no post tomorrow like I said there would be, next week though (5th)!
Enjoy!
Deborah.
Remember, comments are always welcome.
Or, give me a tweeeet! @DebStevo90
ANYHOW, so she's ringing me for another reason - to cancel the bloody appointment set up for me last week because there was now no point because they had missed their targets. It's all about targets in these places, what if this group session had been valuable to me finding work huh? Didn't think about that one did ya Dave!
So, instead of me having to go to this session tomorrow, I am now back to seeing my adviser in a weeks time! What an utter mess about eh! I can't complain about this woman on the phone because she couldn't have been nicer and explained that none of what had happened was my fault (TRU DAT) but that her team made a "monumental cock-up" (again, tru dat).
I also told her I don't want to become one of the notorious (bursts into song) job seekers who week after week causes problems because this wasn't my fault and I was hoping to not have any more incidents like this. She told me that what happened wasn't even a mark on my record, she had to ring to make sure that everyone was clear that it was their fault. When I put the phone down I just laughed and laughed thinking, there is no wonder this country is up shit creek when the people they hire to help you find a job don't even have a bloody clue what they're doing.
Anyhow, there will be no post tomorrow like I said there would be, next week though (5th)!
Enjoy!
Deborah.
Remember, comments are always welcome.
Or, give me a tweeeet! @DebStevo90
One in a million.: Why it is in fact, always dull in Hull!
One in a million.: Why it is in fact, always dull in Hull!: Now, before everyone thinks I am going to bitch about Hull... that's just not the case. I love my city, I really do, and anything I could do...
Why it is in fact, always dull in Hull!
Now, before everyone thinks I am going to bitch about Hull... that's just not the case. I love my city, I really do, and anything I could do to find a job here, I would. I want to stay in East Yorkshire because it's home, but Hull is the hardest place in the UK to find a job. Although, I already knew this statistic, someone linked it to me on Facebook earlier, he noted I might find it interesting... there is a part of me which thinks he was maybe trying to rub this in... you know who you are :P.
Hull for the second year running is the hardest place in the UK to find a job with roughly 80 people applying per job. However, the easiest place to find a job in the UK is Aberdeen with 1 person applying for each job - the actual statistic is 0.88 - so sometimes, not even one person applying! The difference between the two locations is unbelievable. It could be suggested that Aberdeen don't even know we're in a recession...
The article seems to suggest that there is a north/south divide - to some extent there is a divide but when the best city to find a job in is SCOTLAND, i think the divide is flawed somehow.
Poor Hull, always the top of some leader board, and never ever for the right reasons. I feel bad for a city like Hull because any other major city is a good hour away in the car so commuting is a difficult decision whereas say you lived in Leeds - you get on the motorway you've Huddersfield, Wakefield, Bradford, Sheffield, York and Manchester, 6 cities/large towns in under 50 minutes away. Hull is at the end of the motorway, blocked off by the Humber - when it was a major fishing port, it was thriving but it has continued to struggle decade after decade.
"Worst place in the UK to find a job"
"Worst place to live in the UK!" - How would you know? You visited it ONCE - suck it, dickhead!
Oh dear.
As always, your comments are appreciated. So please, leave one!
If not, you can tweet me @DebStevo90
Enjoy!
Deborah! :D
Hull for the second year running is the hardest place in the UK to find a job with roughly 80 people applying per job. However, the easiest place to find a job in the UK is Aberdeen with 1 person applying for each job - the actual statistic is 0.88 - so sometimes, not even one person applying! The difference between the two locations is unbelievable. It could be suggested that Aberdeen don't even know we're in a recession...
The article seems to suggest that there is a north/south divide - to some extent there is a divide but when the best city to find a job in is SCOTLAND, i think the divide is flawed somehow.
Poor Hull, always the top of some leader board, and never ever for the right reasons. I feel bad for a city like Hull because any other major city is a good hour away in the car so commuting is a difficult decision whereas say you lived in Leeds - you get on the motorway you've Huddersfield, Wakefield, Bradford, Sheffield, York and Manchester, 6 cities/large towns in under 50 minutes away. Hull is at the end of the motorway, blocked off by the Humber - when it was a major fishing port, it was thriving but it has continued to struggle decade after decade.
"Worst place in the UK to find a job"
"Worst place to live in the UK!" - How would you know? You visited it ONCE - suck it, dickhead!
Oh dear.
As always, your comments are appreciated. So please, leave one!
If not, you can tweet me @DebStevo90
Enjoy!
Deborah! :D
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