By: tash8497
1/12/2009
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| ill_be_backetc... was that check out job thru CES or Job Network? I have a friend who was made redundant when almost 60 and job network sent him on a course to learn about applying for jobs and resumes!!!!!!!! Unbelievable eh. |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
1/12/2009
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ill_be_backetc... was that check out job thru CES or Job Network? I have a friend who was made redundant when almost 60 and job network sent him on a course to learn about applying for jobs and resumes!!!!!!!! Unbelievable eh.
Job Network, Mission Employment at Stones Corner actually. I guess someone has to employ the monkeys at Centrelink, Job Network, Job Placement because they certainly couldn't get a real job |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
1/12/2009
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Pensioners aren't involved in job network system generally, people in receipt of Newstart Allowance etc are.
I'm a self funded retiree rather than a pensioner, however I'll happily grab any handout going. No shortage of others with their snouts in the trough so why should I be any different ?? |
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By: ubergal11
1/12/2009
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| Totally agree, when the CES worked it was a very effective system for job seekers where as the Job Network, particularly under Howard, borders on an abuse of human rights. It does jack for anyone instead fobbing them off to the parasitic recruitment companies. Accessing the job market these days is a total nightmare not just for the unskilled but also the highly qualified and experienced. After gaining my post grad qualifications I experienced nothing but demoralising and exploitive treatment courtesy of the JN, and in the end I stood up to them and wrote a letter to Canberra. They backed right off and left me alone. It helped that I knew quite a bit about the workings of welfare policy and that I was smarter than the bogan monkeys that actually work in the JN. I could of got a job as EC, as at one stage they were so desperate you virtually needed no qualifications to get a position. However I was so disgusted by the Libs policy at the time I didn't even try. |
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By: ubergal11
1/12/2009
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| I also knew of a young friend who refused to do anything but reception work and was happy to collect the dole until her perfect job came along. She ended up working as an EC and I was partly to blame. She rung me in tears one day saying the JN were forcing her to take a cleaning job. She had done some casual cleaning as a TAFE student. I said stand up for your rights and tell them you expert and deserve better as you have put in the effort to gain some qualifications. She ended up getting a Govt traineeship and then a postion in the JN. Her personality changed overnight and she was only too happy to breach people who in her judgement were not trying hard enough to find work. Or the people from Muslim backgrounds who she had ongoing distain for. Yet she had been happy to bludge for 12 months prior. Needless to say I ended the friendship as the hypocrisy was too much for me to stomach. I am much more discriminating to whom I give advice and guidance to these days. I also used to get up to twelve emails a day from this girl. Stupid attachements like chainmail and bad taste, racist, sexist bogan jokes. This is what JN staff engage in to fill the time instead of servicing job seekers. |
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By: rrianaflo
1/12/2009
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"I have a friend who was made redundant when almost 60 and job network sent him on a course to learn about applying for jobs and resumes!!!!!!!! Unbelievable eh."
I would imagine that if this person had been in the same job for a number of years then he may well be out of touch on the job application process so I don't think the short course is such a bad idea. Getting out and about and connecting with people is a good tactic for retaining your confidence which otherwise might go down the drain. If the person is 59, able-bodied but unable to financially support himself then he should be looking for work. |
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By: ill_be_back@rocketmail.com
1/12/2009
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I would imagine that if this person had been in the same job for a number of years then he may well be out of touch on the job application process
Any still breathing individual on the planet (even those in the funnyfarm) is infinitely higher on the evolutionary scale than the demented monkeys employed by Centrelink & its parasitic offspring. |
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By: aquaman609
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| The government Must be Running out of Money for the Boat people, after all they Get $487 a week plus Hardship grants of up to $184 a week and Housing assistance, and a car loan $13000, these people under Rudd get More prefferances than Vets Or disability pensions , and I,m sick of it !! |
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