unemployed after 6 months after graduation, feel completly lost

What's a workfare contract?


Sorry i'm only 16 and yeah...

Not to be ignorant but is it that hard to look for a job that's relevant to your Degree?


Or do you need a PhD for that...


Idk i'm only young and most people ik who left Uni go into jobs like Retail, etc..


I'm just wondering why not apply/try to get a job that is relevant to your career?

workfare is when the government sends unemployed and sometimes sick/disabled people on a mandatory work placement. Meaning they must attend or they will have all there living money stopped. A lot of charities are involved like the salvation army and BHF. But some private companies have been using the scheme also, like Tesco and Asda. look up 'boycott workfare' for more info

I don't think the job centre helps with graduate jobs. It's really in place to help unskilled/low skilled people into employment, not to provide advice for educated graduates I'm afraid You'd be better going to your Uni's career advice.

I am in a job relevant to my studies now. It is not "hard" although for physics I dare say it is as a lot go into the city rather than work that applies the physics part of the course. So that would have to be a first step. My point was some people find it hard to do that last step of growing up and start a career, whether it's the growing up or being scared. Whatever.

I just wanted op to know I also found it hard and managed it in the end.


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So basically they are still on benefits but doing work exprience ?

They are adults who should be paid a minimum wage for working at a private company. Most participants would have had work experience already. And we need to think carefully about what it means when someone who is unwell - is told they must attend a placement or they will be made effectively homeless.

Oh so basically the private companies who they 'work' don't pay anything for them to work, the taxpayers are paying their 'wages' ( benefits)
And if they miss 'work' the taxpayers are cutting of their benefits..

bingo

Lol Special needs and Mental Health are two different things....

So the benefits aren't even wages then tbh..


What happens after the placement?

not when they are replacing volunteers with workfare contracts. And most places want to check references, this can be awkward if your like op and your quite socially isolated.

why does everybody on TSR have to argue over silly technicalities? employers will still discriminate against you either way, whether they are different things or not.

After the placement they are sent back to the jobcenter, or to a company ( like A4E or Shawtrust) Were they continue job search, or they are sent on another placement. As sending them on workfare makes the government and private companies money.

Sometimes a private company (like A4E) have made a deal with another private company (like Asda) that if the person completes the placement, then Asda will pay a little bit of thankyou money to a company A4E for getting them a seriously cheap worker. (A4E survive on mostly government tax money, but it gives them some extras) the worker does not get any of the money, they are left on the £50 a week from benefits, when they should have got nearly £200 on a min wage.

He'll still have his personal tutor from uni, and anyone can give a character reference. I think for my first job I just put down a long term friend of the family. It might be an issue if he's applying for a grad job but f he's just going for an entry level job a lot of them don't even bother to check references, especially if it's just for a temporary worker.

Didn't deny that, but it is different
Don't say it's mental health because it's not

Why you even mentioning that anyway? Some special needs people do get jobs, may be harder but yeah.. the guy is on a downer and you're telling him because of his needs or 'mental health' there's no hope for him

Why do you have to be so ignorant

I'm saying that employers will discriminate. That's a fact. If the job was customer facing or having to deal with people, they wouldn't want someone with aspergers.

So before you get a grad job or a job relavent to your career you go for a entry level job?

If you've got no experience it's probably a good idea, because every interviewer will ask what you've been doing since graduation. Saying that you've been sitting in your pyjamas watching films for 6 months won't go down too well. A lot of places will ask for specific examples e.g a time you resolved a problem, how you respond to feedback, how you provide effective customer service etc. If you've got no work experience it'll be 10 times harder to answer

He'll still have his personal tutor from uni, and anyone can give a character reference. I think for my first job I just put down a long term friend of the family. It might be an issue if he's applying for a grad job but f he's just going for an entry level job a lot of them don't even bother to check references, especially if it's just for a temporary worker.