After being told by my JobCentre advisor to visit someone who can help me to 'better market myself and my qualifications' by making my CV look the best it possibly can, I went along to The Works this morning.
The Works is a foundation housed within a community church on Brunswick Street in Manchester. It is a kind of employment clinic, from what I can gather, only it is run by professionals from Manchester University and you can go along whenever you like to gain advice and guidance.
Please read this post as to whether or not I was supposed to need an appointment. My advisor told me I didn't, I suspected that he was wrong.
I turned up at about 10:30am. There were two young people on the desk. In another room, a choir of schoolchildren was singing full-blast. Nice bit of community spirit!
The guy on the desk told me to fill out a form to register an account with The Works. It was all standard stuff, but I declined the 'state your ethnic background' section. I hate that question, it's irrelevant and almost as bad as 'state your sexuality'. Hitler died in 1945 - lets keep it that way.
Anyway, I handed my registration form in and, guess what? I was then given a phone number to call once I went back home and called a helpline to make an appointment to go back to The Works to speak to someone about my employment status.
I think I now have the right to claim that my JobCentre advisor is ill-informed. Or too lazy to check whether I needed an appointment, as I suspected.
Or both.
Signing (on),
YAC.
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