Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System
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.
So, lets take the scenario of a typical 18 year old on the dole…
1. Searches the Jobpoints… straight away filters out the Distant Jobs (sadly LMS system can’t do that)
2. Ignores the employment agency jobs (due to experience of no success with them)
3. Has self-respect so doesn’t consider Immoral Jobs
4. Doesn’t want an agency spamming inbox with fake jobs…. thus doesn’t apply for such (Shady Jobs)
5. Ignores the jobs which doesn’t mention who the employer is
6. Finds a job which sounds good and prints out the advert (chances are at home the reference code wont no longer work, which means cant apply for)
7. Is not on New Deal so can’t even request more information on the 7260+ annual jobs that are New Deal Jobs, and when on New Deal has to sit in a classroom for 30 hours job search for 13 weeks
8. Doesn’t bother ringing up Jobseekers Direct as is aware of the reasons why they want the jobseeker to, plus chances are having to wait to use a phone and in a phone queue; doesn’t want benefit sanctions
9. Find a decent job… but oh wait, doesn’t have a driving license (even though old enough – in case someone mentions that lol) so can’t even work in a shop…
Any wonders why there are one million unemployed young people?