Job interview ‘spy’ plan welcomed
Tuesday 29th June 2010, 2:29PM BST.
RECRUITMENT agents have commended Social Security and Housing for an initiative to help unemployed locals have a proper chance in job interviews.
Unemployment figures have fluctuated around the 500 mark through 2010 and the departments now plan to use private sector companies to work with unemployed people through the interview process to make sure they are performing and are being dealt with fairly.
Atlas Recruitment and First Call Recruitment have backed the plan.
An SSD spokesman explained that there was a fundamental problem to be addressed.
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Maybe I need to read the full article but I don’t understand exactly what the plan is.
Isn’t this just having recruitment specialists train the unemployed in interviewing skills? I thought social security already did that.
Headline is very misleading.
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Lynnie
I know this is really your line of business but in conjunction with the Sunday phone in guests’ conversation on this subject I read into this story that there is suspicion
a) that interviewees are sometimes deliberately talking themselves out of the chance of a job
( happy with the £80 /£90 ?? a week) pocket money handed to them by Social
or b)that interviewers are hoping to import better candidates from outside of the Island and thus deliberately rejecting reasonable local candidates
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we interview them. we employee them, they don’t turn up, they leave after three weeks, they still claim a top up from social. And now they want to use private sectors to make sure theyare being treated fairly, what a joke, cut out the hand outs and make the lazy buggers work.
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Ah I see, makes more sense now.
I used to conduct Job Centre interviews (probably around 4 years ago now) and stopped them after 6 months from getting no where. I had people show up stinking of alcohol and people who actually stated that they didn’t want to work and just wanted me to sign their slip to say they turned up for the interview. I also (probably about a year ago) had someone turn down a part time job because it meant she was only getting £10 more a week than what she would get on benefit and she didn’t think it was worth it.
Of course I called the social and told them of every one of these cases. Not to be a tattle tale but to hopefully improve the system! I would hope that other interviewers would also do the same.
I’m not too sure that interviewers conducting fake interviews for the sake of getting licences is happening so much these days. No offense meant to the unemployed but they tend to be either pigeon holed for one particular field or are inexperienced and lack the necessary skills. The more experienced and round skilled unemployed usually find work within a few weeks. Housing have put a cap on short term licences for some time now.
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Social Security needs to be far stricter.
Guernsey seems to be becoming just as slack as the UK
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lynnie
could you tell me what your message is in your last post?
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I read this story and couldn’t fathom out the point at all. It seems like a sound-bite from a politician to impress someone, yet entirely impractical. I suspect the recruitment people quoted are just happy to get their names in the paper rather than any true belief that this can work. This is 100% pointless.
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