JSA Personal Advisor out to get me?

No, but I am saying this about people on JSA. These are the type of people you hear complaining about foreigners coming in and taking jobs from people born here - yet they're not willing to do those jobs themselves.

Lazy people, who are happy with just getting through life and not looking at the bigger picture.

I won't diverge too much, so i'll get back to the fact that if you're on TSR, then at least you care about your education, must have a general awareness, and have potential to do fairly well (compared to a large proportion of the country). So if you're on the JSA, you're just doing something wrong, need to change tact and get out there - it's just laziness at the end of the day.

You do know you can actually be declined for jobs due to being overqualified?

There you go, generalising again. It's only once you're out of work and living in an area that doesn't provide much opportunity for the unemployed that you'll fully understand I'm afraid.

Don't get me wrong, it's ridiculous when those claiming benefits veer all of their hatred and blame towards immigration. It makes no sense.

But you can't make sweeping statement 'it's just laziness' when there are those that fill up to 100 applications a week to no avail

Work trials aren't for free... You're being paid jsa? If I don't do anything I don't get paid... Sorry may sound Tory but if you're on jsa you should work for it!

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Three dots my friend... < like this... that's an ellipsis.

Good luck getting a job once, sorry if you graduate.

People don't realise how good they have it. There's plenty of places where if you don't find a way to earn a living, you die. Puts 10 applications a week (or w/e it is) in perspective.

I also wonder how many people who are on JSA for a prolonged period of time actually treat it as a 9-5 job. Do that and I'd be amazed if you can't find something.

That is so true, Ive got so many negs for writing the same thing

It's probably because being unemployed is soul destroying with a high number of no replies to applications and a lot of rejection. Even with job hunting 40-100hrs a week it can in reality take months. Remember some employers automatically reject those who are unemployed. When someone then goes and accuses you of 'just not trying' it is offensive.

If you've been on JSA for 4-5 months then you're doing something wrong - namely that you're being lazy. Don't try that crap saying that you need to put effort into a few good applications. That's crap cause lets face it, the standard of each application you send out is basically the same. At the starting level, with little experience, it's a numbers game and the best thing you can do is contact as many firms as you can sending out a crap load of emails, cv's cover letters. Spending time on a few applications that you want is not gonna work because if you're unexperienced, your 'best' application will still be destroyed by other more qualified people.

Beggars can't be choosers.
And yes, if you're on JSA you are a beggar.

- And before you try to retaliate, I was on JSA for 2 weeks last year and it is one of the most depressing places I have ever been. The one thing i noticed about people who went to those centres is how messed up their mentality was (obviously there will be exceptions...so giving me one counterexample won't suffice). They are lazy and even think that they're too good for the system.

There is a small introductory talk for people signing on where you're in a group of fellow losers and we all had to list out what type of jobs we were looking for. one crazy lady, around 50, on every type of benefit possible, began complaining that she didn't want a minimum wage job because she was too good for it. She's on benefits and is complaining that she was better than working as a cleaner, and any minimum wage job. What a joke. I won't rant more because i'll get angry.

But yeah, thats the general attitude - Sitting on your ass. There's a million opportunities for you out there. Not just ones online.

Be smart about it, GTFO JSA.

I was in the same position with no experience as well, with no contacts, but through a crap load of emailing and contacting, I managed to get a job and now my career path is improving exponentially. Be proactive and stop sitting on your ass.

And picking someone out because of a simple grammatical error is just the weakest attempt to attack what someone is saying. People do that when they can't return the argument and so try to pick on something that is completely irrelevant. Brilliant!

LOL, I work giving regulated financial advice and find the time to go to study. Its about time management, anything is possible, if you have the right mentality. An Ellipsis pays bills now

If some JSA claimants are lazy that doesn't mean the rest are the same. And who says I'm not doing anything? Some of us can easily work even for 5 pounds an hour but that's not the point. Also, you do understand that some people cannot do any type of jobs due to their own reasons which aren't being lazy or not wanting to work for a minimum wage? You think that some of us like to be on benefits? If you think that then you are very wrong.

And don't judge a book from its cover..

If you work 10 hours at £5 an hour thats £50 you can a lot even when that is taxed, compared to just standard JSA.

If you had to work for it, it wouldn't be called JOB SEEKER'S allowance.

If someone in this country works they are entitled to minimum wage.