working links - Avoid it like the plague
Working Stinks | 24.08.2006 10:17
Working Links is a pilot scheme in a few cities around the country, it is soon to expand nationwide.
Here is a bit if info. on it:
Here is a bit if info. on it:
Having heard many people’s experiences of Working Links, I feel the need to write a little something about them here.
Working Links are a private company that you can be referred to from the Dole office when you have been unemployed for 6 months or more. They then take over your signing on and set up a plan for you getting back to work. The Dole office will sell them up to you telling you that they will help you with a CV, buy you stuff such as interview clothes, mobile phone etc.
Working Links make money from getting you back in to work, and are Draconian. Were you aiming for a particular type of work that you find fulfilling? scrap that, Working Links will make you take any shitty job that is out there.
They often sit you at a desk watching over you for an hour at a time making you phone loads of bars, factories from out of the Yellow Pages to see if they have any vacancies, they also tell you that you must phone these places up and offer you services for free for a shift in order to get your foot in the door, That's right unpaid work!
Everyone I have spoken to has said that they really regret going with Working Links, and if they could go back they would take the signing on weekly over it any day.
http://www.workinglinks.co.uk/
Working Links are a private company that you can be referred to from the Dole office when you have been unemployed for 6 months or more. They then take over your signing on and set up a plan for you getting back to work. The Dole office will sell them up to you telling you that they will help you with a CV, buy you stuff such as interview clothes, mobile phone etc.
Working Links make money from getting you back in to work, and are Draconian. Were you aiming for a particular type of work that you find fulfilling? scrap that, Working Links will make you take any shitty job that is out there.
They often sit you at a desk watching over you for an hour at a time making you phone loads of bars, factories from out of the Yellow Pages to see if they have any vacancies, they also tell you that you must phone these places up and offer you services for free for a shift in order to get your foot in the door, That's right unpaid work!
Everyone I have spoken to has said that they really regret going with Working Links, and if they could go back they would take the signing on weekly over it any day.
http://www.workinglinks.co.uk/
Working Stinks
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