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Direct.gov.uk: why the new job search website needs to be replaced

Posted on April 2nd, 2010.

I was never a fan of the old Jobcentre Plus job search website although I used it regularly to seek employment. Many issues with it included: Although the job reference code is passed within the page URL; when the site timeout within a few minutes it forgets what job advert/search you were doing and begins [...]

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10 Really useful jobseeker tips

Posted on December 9th, 2009.

So, there are hundreds of websites out there giving tips to jobseekers. Regardless of the fact those who are responsible for the content having jobs so might imply success, these people haven’t tested them, and many of the tips are outdated or focused for a different country (i.e. USA, Australia etc.) although the foreign company [...]

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Welfare Reform: Jobcentre Plus needs to scrap its £40m per year Labour Market System

Posted on November 30th, 2009.

How much do you think Jobcentre Plus’ failed job system costs per year to run? £1 million? £5 million? £10 million? No… the Labour Market System (LMS) costs £39, 663, 300 per year to run. The Department for Work and Pensions didn’t want to disclose the initial setup costs of the Labour Market System under [...]

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351 Jobcentre Plus advertised jobs were in the Adult Entertainment Industry

Posted on November 27th, 2009.

351 Jobcentre Plus advertised jobs were in the Adult Entertainment Industry Between August 2007 and July 2008 Jobcentre Plus advertised 2.26 million job vacancies, 351 vacancies existed in this period as in the Adult Entertainment industry for jobs such as adult model, adult entertainment presenter, stripper, adult phone chat services and cam girl this equates [...]

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Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System

Posted on October 21st, 2009.

New Deal Scandal exposes the scam that is the Labour Market System (LMS) or simply put the pool of jobs Employment Officers, New Deal Personal Advisers and Jobseeker Direct staff give to jobseekers as Jobseeker Directions and those on the jobpoints and the direct gov and jobcentre plus websites.

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7260 New Deal vacancies advertised in the last year

Posted on October 20th, 2009.

Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 enables the Secretary of State to approve arrangements “for the purpose of assisting persons to select, train for, obtain and retain employment suitable for their ages and capacities”. The New Deal Employment Subsidy (New Deal only vacancies) is administered under this Act.

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