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Post by prodius on Dec 6, 2014 21:31:47 GMT 7
I have been linked up with a few agencies over the last couple of years. With many promises of employment –none of which come into fruition. But they get my hopes up anyway… I have also been looking for work myself but need the support because of my disabilities. I have had a hard time with these agencies because they refuse to fund training for me. They refuse to pay for tickets and help me get into supported employment. They say they are a “not for profit organization” and can’t fund training. I thought they get funding from the government? They do have big offices and a big billboard advertisement and a heap of nice new modern cars. I have also just received medical review forms from C/L which are due at Christmas as well – just to make things worse. If that goes bad I’m stuffed…Don’t know what to do as I have limitations and have been rejected by many employers  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2014 4:54:37 GMT 7
Yes my experience with them was they were pity useless, that was 15 years ago, they just showed me how to write a resume which l already knew and have me a newspaper and phone book and told me to apply for jobs and cold call businesses, if by some luck l found l job they make money, it seemed to me money was all they were interested in not us as individuals but that was just the agency l was with l cant speak for all them. l guess the jobnetworks will be making huge profits from all these people on the DSP under 35 that have to sign up with them, the problem is they cant find jobs for people if theres no jobs out there or not enough for everyone, theres something like 850,000 unemployed and only 140,000 job vacancies, the real figure is a lot worse and unemployment is now at a 12 year high thanks to the mad monk abbott. Its even a lot worse for these poor people Abbott the maggot want to kick off their DSP, not many employers want to hire the disabled or people with health problems especially if they have been out of the workforce on welfare for years, but the vulcher job networks will cash in on these people. The liberals do nothing to create new jobs for the disabled they just seem to imply or want the general public to think theres millions of jobs out there for all these people they plan to kick off the DSP when many or the majority will end up on newstart maybe long term on much less money
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Post by Denis-NFA on Dec 7, 2014 5:59:24 GMT 7
I have been linked up with a few agencies over the last couple of years. With many promises of employment –none of which come into fruition. But they get my hopes up anyway… I have also been looking for work myself but need the support because of my disabilities. I have had a hard time with these agencies because they refuse to fund training for me. They refuse to pay for tickets and help me get into supported employment. They say they are a “not for profit organization” and can’t fund training. I thought they get funding from the government? They do have big offices and a big billboard advertisement and a heap of nice new modern cars. I have also just received medical review forms from C/L which are due at Christmas as well – just to make things worse. If that goes bad I’m stuffed…Don’t know what to do as I have limitations and have been rejected by many employers You have to wonder what good these organizations accomplish. It would be interesting to see how many people they actually find jobs for. I agree with @frugle and in my experience we should band together and form our own. All the best with your medical review. |
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Post by scallywag on Dec 7, 2014 6:07:43 GMT 7
I have been linked up with a few agencies over the last couple of years. With many promises of employment –none of which come into fruition. But they get my hopes up anyway… I have also been looking for work myself but need the support because of my disabilities. I have had a hard time with these agencies because they refuse to fund training for me. They refuse to pay for tickets and help me get into supported employment. They say they are a “not for profit organization” and can’t fund training. I thought they get funding from the government? They do have big offices and a big billboard advertisement and a heap of nice new modern cars. I have also just received medical review forms from C/L which are due at Christmas as well – just to make things worse. If that goes bad I’m stuffed…Don’t know what to do as I have limitations and have been rejected by many employers You have to wonder what good these organizations accomplish. It would be interesting to see how many people they actually find jobs for. I agree with @frugle and in my experience we should band together and form our own. All the best with your medical review. JUST 42 per cent of job-finding fees claimed by employment agencies were found to be genuine . |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2014 6:11:27 GMT 7
You have to wonder what good these organizations accomplish. It would be interesting to see how many people they actually find jobs for. I agree with @frugle and in my experience we should band together and form our own. All the best with your medical review. JUST 42 per cent of job-finding fees claimed by employment agencies were found to be genuine . Yes the amount of fraud that goes on with these jobnetworks is amazing, they rip off millions but they never seem to be prosecuted, l think some of the agencies that got caught had to close down but no one ever seems to get punished or go to jail from what l've heard of, maybe the government covers it up because they don't want to admitt the job networks are a failure and maybe theres a lot of important well connected people that have made fortunes from these job networks. About 6 years ago l did a program with one of them and about a year after it ended l was at a rountine interview at centrelink and the guy told me hows the program going? and l told him l stopped doing it 6 months ago. It turned out they still had me on their books doing the progam and collelcting a fee even though l stopped doing it |
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Post by latindancer on Dec 7, 2014 17:08:40 GMT 7
I too have had a bad experience with an agency....which I initially chose quite carefully.
The lady who was my case manager seemed helpful and sincere but just didn't come up with many jobs. Mostly she sent me a few from Gumtree or Indeed, which she could have found very quickly.
She then left and the guy who I was with was much worse. He hardly contacted me at all....but he seemed enthusiastic and sincere.
I was on their books for 2 years, and I myself actually found the casual job I now have. I thought it would be a stepping-stone, but now I'm stuck in the bloody thing, and exited from their books.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2014 17:48:52 GMT 7
I went a long time ago to one of these Job Network thingo's. I was sent to see a psychologist that worked for this Network Provider. After one session with her, it proved to be a flipping joke. My CV is very impressive but after seeing my state of mind, she had been in contacted my psychiatrist, she told me I had just about zero percentage chance of gaining employment as I was just too sick. Yet, she then told me the Job Network was very happy to take me on as from what I gathered, they were more then happy to get paid for something that meant zero work for them but something they were going to get paid for.
So yes, no better then a bunch of thieves....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2014 8:04:18 GMT 7
I went a long time ago to one of these Job Network thingo's. I was sent to see a psychologist that worked for this Network Provider. After one session with her, it proved to be a flipping joke. My CV is very impressive but after seeing my state of mind, she had been in contacted my psychiatrist, she told me I had just about zero percentage chance of gaining employment as I was just too sick. Yet, she then told me the Job Network was very happy to take me on as from what I gathered, they were more then happy to get paid for something that meant zero work for them but something they were going to get paid for. So yes, no better then a bunch of thieves.... Yes my experience with the jobnetwork l was with is they are only interested in one thing, making money, they don't really care about you as an individual only how much money they can make off you. The one l was with didn't do anything for me l couldn't have done myself. That was just the one l was with maybe there is a good job network out there somewhere. |
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Post by banezz on Jan 2, 2015 17:32:35 GMT 7
I have been linked up with a few agencies over the last couple of years. With many promises of employment –none of which come into fruition. But they get my hopes up anyway… I have also been looking for work myself but need the support because of my disabilities. I have had a hard time with these agencies because they refuse to fund training for me. They refuse to pay for tickets and help me get into supported employment. They say they are a “not for profit organization” and can’t fund training. I thought they get funding from the government? They do have big offices and a big billboard advertisement and a heap of nice new modern cars. I have also just received medical review forms from C/L which are due at Christmas as well – just to make things worse. If that goes bad I’m stuffed…Don’t know what to do as I have limitations and have been rejected by many employers The thing is that all the services have to do is tick a few boxes, make a few comments and act as if they are trying to find you a job, and to what I call 'I piss pore job at it' But still, when I was with one call Wise Employment, they held a get together and supplied food. The whole point was to have unemployed people with a disability and employers get together. I thing there was only about four or five unemployed people including myself and about ten/fifteen employers. And I can say that didn't go so well. The other issue is that all employers are expecting to hire fully trained people who have already worked in their area and are ready to get up and go, sadly it not a perfect world. The other thing is that most employers get the wrong person sent out to them or to call. And it can destroy the chances of anybody sent sent by the same place/people. Like with what happen to me, I was okay for doing the job. It was just not possible for me to get out there in the time I was needed and I at the time was living way outside suburb he was looking at hiring from. |
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