And the new figures are expected to reflect a sharp increase in August, as school leavers and new graduates gave up hope of finding a job and joined the ranks at the jobcentre. ❋ Unknown (2011)
More fly-on-the-wall footage reaches us from Hastings jobcentre, where managers struggling to cope in the Con-Dem world have removed the toilet brushes from staff bathrooms – apparently on grounds of cost. ❋ Hugh Muir (2010)
He is being actively prevented from using his own initiative so that the jobcentre can tick boxes and meet targets. ❋ Unknown (2011)
'The jobcentre isn't interested in unpaid experience'Yvonne Kay, 23, from London, worked as an unpaid intern for the Labour party for six months until the general election last yearI enjoyed myself and it was something that I wanted to learn about. ❋ Unknown (2011)
When he left school, with 11 GCSEs and his A-levels, the jobcentre told him they could only put him on a training course if he had a criminal record. ❋ Unknown (2012)
On both of our housing estates in Ruraltown, The Swamp and The Reservation, with the notable exception of the Eastern European immigrants, very few of the youngsters are employed, despite the unfilled vacancies in the windows of the local jobcentre. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)
When the latest unemployment figures are released on Wednesday, they will almost certainly show that joblessness jumped again in August, with youth unemployment hitting a million, as a fresh crop of disillusioned school-leavers and disappointed graduates trooped down to the jobcentre. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A Sudanese refugee I know, who arrived in the UK eight months ago, failed to answer one of his jobcentre adviser's questions correctly because of his lack of English and has now lost his only income. ❋ Unknown (2011)
• A new and exciting development in Hastings, where jobcentre managers responded decisively to our item mocking them for pruning the local paper so jobseekers could not dwell on the unfavourable news articles about the centre itself. ❋ Hugh Muir (2010)
One jobcentre adviser helpfully suggested moving my bank account and complaining. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's like finding, at the jobcentre, that there are unicorns still needing shoeing, in liquid silver. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Women who are looking for a job should visit their local jobcentre where they will be given advice and be able to take advantage of the 10,000 jobs we take every working day. ❋ Unknown (2011)
However, the jobcentre has forbidden him from taking up these short-term internships. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I am glad I did it, but I am amazed now that when I speak to the people at the jobcentre, they aren't interested in unpaid experience – they only appear to be interested in looking at what I have been paid to do, so it is very frustrating. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He was asked to go in to the jobcentre for an interview but was too ill at the time. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Next week, an interview at my local jobcentre will tell me my real chances of engaging with you, my new world. ❋ Preethi Manuel (2010)
Of course, you must carry on applying for anything the jobcentre suggests. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I send CVs and applications to the vacancies issued by the jobcentre, but have been told, on numerous occasions, I am over-qualified. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Long considered the "posh" part of Merseyside, Wirral is distancing itself even further from the crude scouse stereotype of a shellsuit-wearing, jobcentre-bothering bit of scruff by ordering its taxi drivers to dress to impress. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In a sign of the scale of the welfare penalties to be imposed by the government, the work and pensions secretary said that out-of-work parents of young children will be penalised if they fail to keep in touch with their local jobcentre. ❋ Nicholas Watt (2010)
