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Has anyone tried these council run "Pathways to work" schemes?

DigbyDevon

Hello,

I have recently started on a council run pathways to work scheme.

I have experience but due to a combination of poor luck, poor health and the job market I have found myself out of work for nearly two years now. I signed up after finding Indeed, Reed and the like were unhelpful.

However I can't say i'm impressed to be honest, my job coach is struggling to build relationships with employers, she really struggles on computers and I'm not sure what the benefit of our weekly meetings are? I have to end up doing the things we are supposed to do in session or the next 3-4 weeks will be spent just doing forms. 

I am a bit disappointed after attaching so much hope to this scheme, has anyone else had any experience for better or worse with a similar scheme?

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  • I've been on a couple of them, one at the job centre and one at some outsourced place, I was lucky in some sense in that I'd been kicked off incapcaity benefits even though it was obviously to the woman in the job centre that I should be on it and encouraged me to reapply as soon as I could and didn't hassle me to much. The other one was flummoxed by my not having a career path and having done so many different things in my working life and by my disablities too. None of them actually did anything to help me find suitable work, they couldn't even come up with a suitable CV, there was no training or anything else offered and anything I suggested either wasn't available or not encouraged.

    Ultimately they couldn't find work or jobs that didn't exist, I was also to old for many training, apprentice and entry level stuff.

    I came to the conclusion that it was more about the government being seen to be doing something and spending quite a bit of money doing it, than anything that could be of real help. I still don't know what a coach actually does, I just used to sit about with mone and have a laugh.

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  • I've been on a couple of them, one at the job centre and one at some outsourced place, I was lucky in some sense in that I'd been kicked off incapcaity benefits even though it was obviously to the woman in the job centre that I should be on it and encouraged me to reapply as soon as I could and didn't hassle me to much. The other one was flummoxed by my not having a career path and having done so many different things in my working life and by my disablities too. None of them actually did anything to help me find suitable work, they couldn't even come up with a suitable CV, there was no training or anything else offered and anything I suggested either wasn't available or not encouraged.

    Ultimately they couldn't find work or jobs that didn't exist, I was also to old for many training, apprentice and entry level stuff.

    I came to the conclusion that it was more about the government being seen to be doing something and spending quite a bit of money doing it, than anything that could be of real help. I still don't know what a coach actually does, I just used to sit about with mone and have a laugh.

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