Posts Tagged ‘job hunt’
Last Thursday I went to the Job Centre for the very last time. I was pleasantly surprised that I can keep claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance right up to the day before my new job starts. For everything I have said about the Job Centre regime, that’s a pretty decent little perk. After all, it is £50 [...]
Filed under: job hunt, money, rite of passage, unemployment, Work | 3 Comments
Tags: employment, expenses, graduating, Job Centre, job hunt, jobs, jobseekers allowance, tax, unemployment
An A-Z of Unemployment
Following the popularity of my A-Z of Journalism written earlier this year, I have decided its about time to give it the appropriate sequel of an A-Z of Unemployment. A – Allowance. Or rather Jobseekers Allowance. The miserable fortnightly routine of queuing up to reel off the usual spiel about the futile job searches and [...]
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Tags: Alphabet, applications, drink, Job Centre, job hunt, jobless, jobseekers allowance, unemployment
I can see this as being a recurring theme in the next few weeks, today I had two job rejections within mere minutes of one another. Last week I endured a rather nerve-wracking job interview for an editorial position here in Salford (too good to be true by all accounts) sadly, as I actually wanted [...]
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Tags: application, employment, job hunt, Journalism, media, MediaCity, redundancy, travel, Work
