I had my first appoinment with an “Employment Coach” today. For those wondering, A4e caterogise their staff as folllows: Personal Career Coach (Who I’ve been dealing with up until now) Trainers (Who provide in-house training – more on this later) Employment Coach (From the “Promotional book” – “…Your Employment Coach will help you to obtain [...]
JobCentrePlus.gov.uk – Closing on March 31st 2010.
A few weeks ago I mentioned the change to Online Jobsearch, and how customers are now expected to use Direct.Gov, which in my opinion is inferior to the existing system (and that’s saying something). Luckily, there’s a workaround you can use to access the original system, however it doesn’t look like it’ll work for much [...]
Should Ex-Offenders be sent to “regular” FND Providers, and, perhaps more importantly – should other Clients be informed?
Towards the start of last week, I started to notice I was getting visitors “referred” to the blog, from a site I’m somewhat familiar with already, due to researching A4e, called WatchingA4e. It turns out the person running the site was nice enough to include my site on the list of “Interesting sites”, on the [...]
Quick Post: Flexible New Deal “User guide” from the DWP.
Some encouraging news for people who have been placed on FND – the mythical “Flexible New Deal” booklet has finally surfaced. During my initial interview with the JCP, I was told that such a booklet was available, but that it was currently only available for staff. However, it’s now available online, so if your Jobcentre [...]
A4e – Second Interview, Online Assessments, and seemingly hitting a brickwall.
The first of 4 planned posts, before my next appointment with A4e – this one talks about my second interview, the A4e Online Assessment tool, and the feeling of seemingly hitting a brickwall. Originally I’d hoped to have all 4 posts / articles online by today, however I twisted my ankle over the weekend (It’s [...]
Upcoming Posts…
Just a very, very quick update. I’m currently brainstorming a few different ideas for posts, as well as collecting links for a new page (I want a seperate page full of links, as well as information, so as not to have to cram them into the side), so hopefully, over the remainder of the week, [...]
The Aim of this blog… [Pinned]
Having looked at the visitor stats over the last few days, the number of visitors has shot through the roof recently – I’m getting 10x more visitors than a few weeks ago, and so obviously I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who has dropped by, left comments / suggestions, and to other [...]
A4E, Flexible New Deal, and “Work Placements”
First things first – Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to drop by, post comments, links, and suggested reading articles. I’m somewhat infamous amongst friends for taking an eternity to reply to email, so I’ve gotta apologise off the bat, for any delays – I promise I’ll try and get round to them [...]
A4E – The Initial Interview.
Initially I was going to try and cover this in one post, however it would be quite long, so I’ve decided to split it into three seperate posts: A4E – The Initial Interview. [This Post] Claiming back Travel Costs – Both from External Providers, and the Jobcentre itself. A4E – Online Assessments & Communities. Once [...]
