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Roger, here in Dover, the job-centre are extremely helpful after one has signed on for six months. They offer courses, and refer people to Skills Training too.
Skills Training are able to refer people to courses, financed by the State, and plenty of time (months) is given to get through the course/courses, with all the appropriate help from tutors.
Pitmans yesterday sent me an email informing me (as a former student at Pitmans) that they have found over 5,000 administrative jobs in Britain on just three job-sites.
This is just one example, to show that there is definitely a desire to get people back to work, and age does not seem to be a limit in this process.
But, as the figures in my above post show, over the past year, 400,000 jobs were offered in Britain, which is a small number when compared to the 1.5 million people on unemployment benefit and the further 1 million unemployed who are not un JSA, and the several million on other out-of-work benefits.
Of-course, if 90% of these 400,000 jobs go to people who are not British, there is little chance indeed of signing off!
It's not age-related.
I did level 2 assessments in English and maths at Pitmans, but having passed them, there was no need to do a course.
So I did courses in IT. level 1 and level 2, and passed.
There was certainly no age-related limit among the students there.
But obviously, as many jobs that become available are in factories at the minimum wage, usually as warehouse operatives and packers, these firms will go for the very young, those in their 20s, although they will never say so openly, owing to age-discrimination laws.
My view is that, if you do not mention your age on a job application for one of these physical-related jobs, they assume you are over 30, and if you do not specifically mention any past experience in the sector of warehouse or picking and packing, again, they assume you have none.
Of-course I can't go further than that, so as not to become liable for defamation, but the official figures show that these firms have their ways of recruiting people, and 90% of those chosen are not British.
This is why the Government underlines the fact that so many young indegenous people are looking for work, because they know that many firms discriminate on a systematical basis against people who are British, no matter how young they are.
I suppose I could get myself into trouble by continuing along these lines, but I think we all know that it is a systematic racial discrimination that has been going on on the part of many minimum-wage businesses running factories where physical labour is required.