The all new TG's gorra job, worra bout you thread

[tel]

I have lost track of how many jobs I have applied for.

[TG]

I have lost track of how many jobs I have applied for.

I only started keeping an accurate record at the beginning of this year but I would estimate between 180 and 200 in six months.

[Snoopy]

There is a lot available free. My wife delivers many courses that "Embed" basic skills into other subjects.
Yes I do remember CSEs. In fact GCSEs are supposed to be a combination of GCE 'O' Levels and CSEs ~ Tho' I confess I hadn't realised you were that old.

Joking apart demonstrating that you are working towards acquiring the skills or at least proof of them will enhance your prospects and get the Job Centre Jobsworths off your neck for quite some time.

Check out your local FE College for courses starting in September ~ they will offer Basic Numeracy and Literacy and you can work your way up through the levels ~ before you feel insulted my wife has 10 O Levels, 6 "Highers" (they are Scottish A levels) a BA(Hons) in Humanities + Dip Euro Hum + a PGCE BUT because her O and A levels are now more than two years old had to attend a local college to take the basic Literacy and Numeracy Courses and tests, despite having passed the two year PGCE course with Honours, before they would award her the PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Education ~ meaning she is now a qualified teacher)  She is now attending Uni part time again to gain her Masters in Education and plans to do a Phd after that.

The basic Numeracy and Literacy courses are designed for everyone and you can work up the levels at your own speed by attending your local college for a couple of hours a week. They have the added advantage of being computer based and virtually free to those who qualify financially, which I suspect you will. If you attain (and here I am not absolutely sure of the figures) level three it is equivalent to an NVQ but your college will be able to tell you that ~ or Google the info. When Mrs S went along to do hers the tutor told her to p*ss off out of the class as she was putting the others off by being so bright and to come back and sit the tests at the end of the course ~ So even teachers have to take these qualifications under Nu labour because so many of them have not got the basic skills or at least up to date proof of them. (Yes three of those in her class were teachers, One was a Nurse and the rest trainee Classroom Assistants)

Give it a shot and bloody good luck to you. It is the right way to go.

[TG]

Thanks Snoops. It is in fact the FE college who are going to call me.

I am going to start at the bottom as you say. At the very least it will stop me going mad from boredom.

[Snoopy]

You've probably found this but in case you haven't http://www.niace.org.uk/

[The Moan Ranger]

I have applied for two more this morning. One looks custom made for me, but I be I won't hear a damn thing. 

[Snoopy]

Not much in the way of future prospects tho'

[Darwins Selection]

Not much in the way of future prospects tho'

 

[The Moan Ranger]

Not much in the way of future prospects tho'

 

[Miss Demeanour]

5 o'clock on a Friday afternoon and I have just had a call from work. I am to be issued with a letter of vulnerability to redundancy notice this afternoon - bun fight to take place in June for jobs ( with the other managers - deleting a third of posts)

Anyone fancy a drink 

[Uncle Mort]

  

I'll raise a glass to you when I get home.

[Miss Demeanour]

Make it a large one 

[barmisspah?]

Sorry to hear that Miss D.

[Barman]

That is shite Miss D... 


You will still be able to bring all my stuff out in September tho won't you...? 

[Just One More]

Bloody hell Miss D, that's a tough one to get on a Friday afternoon, not that there's ever a good time to tell anybody. There but for the grace of god etc