The Guardian's 'Jobs Unlimited' service appears to be aimed at the Social Services and Local Authorities 'industries', with a healthy backward glance in the direction of Education, Outreach, and other non-job and let's-pretend-we're-working jobs.
They have also saluted the Government's ... Read review
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The Guardian's 'Jobs Unlimited' service appears to be aimed at the Social Services and Local Authorities 'industries', with a healthy backward glance in the direction of Education, Outreach, and other non-job and let's-pretend-we're-working jobs.
They have also saluted the Government's latest bugger-the-unemployed initiative, which appears to have the intention of forcing the unemployed to work in call-centres and tele-sales sweatshops ... ...their legs and arms broken by Jack Straw into the bargain).
But perhaps the most disgraceful bit of chicanery contained in the latest labour-market white paper is - and if you have not read this, yet, you'll have to trust me : I'm not making this up - to 'liberate the older worker from being forced to retire at 65'.
'Forced to retire at 65'! You couldn't stop me retiring at 65. Or 58 (my next birthday, April 4th, just ... more
The Guardian's 'Jobs Unlimited' service appears to be aimed at the Social Services and Local Authorities 'industries', with a healthy backward glance in the direction of Education, Outreach, and other non-job and let's-pretend-we're-working jobs.
They have also saluted the Government's latest bugger-the-unemployed initiative, which appears to have the intention of forcing the unemployed to work in call-centres and tele-sales sweatshops or lose their benefit (and - who knows - have their legs and arms broken by Jack Straw into the bargain).
But perhaps the most disgraceful bit of chicanery contained in the latest labour-market white paper is - and if you have not read this, yet, you'll have to trust me : I'm not making this up - to 'liberate the older worker from being forced to retire at 65'.
'Forced to retire at 65'! You couldn't stop me retiring at 65. Or 58 (my next birthday, April 4th, just in case you wanted to send me a little something, you know, a Zimmer-frame, kilo of viagra, tab of acid, anything you happen to have lying around your stock-cupboard). I cannot recall a time when I didn't look forward to my 65th birthday, when I could finally throw off the shackles of 0830-1700 serfdom and stay in bed as long as I like. Or the working-class boy's dream, early retirement. I mean, have a thousand years of civilization taught us nothing? We still have to start work at 15, and go on for 50 years? What the hell was that about? Who let them get away with that?
We used to hear an awful lot of tosh about commitment and diligence in the Thatcherist 80s, the 'Tiger Economies', and Japan, in particular, being held up as examples of where we could be if only the working-classes (us) would get up off our asses and onto our bikes and into the factory at six, a merry quip and and a company song on our compressed lips as we graft unceasingly for the good of the economy, to be dragged kicking and screaming in protest from our desks and lathes at midnight, yearning for 0530 so we could leap from our unsullied beds to start the whole thing again.
And now look : the Tigers are defanged, their detumescent currencies so much worthless paper, even once-mighty Japan humbled, whilst we indolent Westerners are doing - well, not at all badly.
Though you wouldn't know it from the latest round of employment initiatives, which will have me stacking shelves in Sainsbury's at 75,if I live that long.
Ah, but there is a sub-text. It isn't that the Government really believes we shall all sink into La manche if we don't keep at the 9 to 5 farce until our 110th birthday ; what it is, they've seen the mess the Financial Services pimps have made of the pension funds, and are terrified of what will happen when we twig that there's no money in the pot for when we all gleefully retire and join the happy throng at the Post Office counters (they're trying to close them too, by the way). And they are desperate to keep us from finding out. Much better that they convince us that we are better off being worked to death, rather than drawing our pension.
And if you doubt me, look at the words they use : liberate! When anyone tells you you are being liberated, or enabled, another of their favourites, watch out : you are about to be screwed out of something you had always assumed was part of your birthright, such as a free health-service, a transport system which treats you as passengers (ie, deserving of a service) rather than customers (people who buy tickets).
Don't buy it, kids, insist on your right to retire at 65 - 60 - or, as I say 58 (April 4th, did I mention that?).
Advantages: Easy to get to online Disadvantages: Better reading the hardcopy version
The Guardian – Rise (http://www.jobsunlimited.co.uk/rise/)
The main page is divided up into areas such as a careers fair calendar, job search facility, links to other areas of careers advice etc.., postgrad courses, a help yourself section, and helpful features on things from foreign cv’s to what to do with yourself constructively over the Summer. I looked at the page in terms of the various headings and links, firstly: The Links These are to things ... ...careers information on the web. Jobs When you click on this, you can sign up for a weekly jobs email service, and check out featured Graduate Employers. You can search for job ads and use the “Career Manager” which is a facility you can register for, which finds suitable jobs for you, and stores the ads you are interested in. Very useful. Career Fairs Lists the career fairs available around the country, most of which unfortunately are finished, apart ...
ihatebroccoli 03.08.2000
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of jobsunlimited.co.uk
Jobsunlimited.co.uk is basically the job section of the guardian newspaper stuck on the Internet. This site is reasonably quick to load but presentation is poor.
On searching through the categories on this site I found the general search brought up to 200 jobs in specific areas. I then used the advanced search witch was very specific in terms of location and job title. The only problem I have with this site is that when searching for positions not ... ...the guardian newspaper this site is tailored for Londoners and people in the southeast.
Jobs were all of higher salary ranges so this site is no good at all for those trying to make a career, this is for those with 10 years plus experience.
Another fault with this site is the number of banner adverts half of the pages are all covered with adverts for recruitment agencies, which is quite annoying.
This site gives the impression you can personalise ...
richardjmeek 21.03.2001
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Advantages: Easy to use, wide range of jobs, especially good for public and charity sector, updated daily. Disadvantages: Erm......can't think of any
Working for a charity as I do, there aren't many online recruitment sites I have found very helpful but Jobs Unlimited from The Guardian and Observer has proven a fantastic exception.
The search facility is easy to use and the jobs are updated regularly. The main job screen gives a lot of information in the 'summary' so you don't have to click back and forwards between the search results and job details pages.
The majority of the jobs advertised ...
SF 30.09.2000
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Advantages: Supposed to be very good Disadvantages: Not easy to navigate
As a graduate I often scanned the Guardian Newspaper for jobs and was interested in logging on to their jobs website. Once I'd found the site I was unable to register as a graduate and found myself in a loop unable to get out. I tried on several occasions to subscribe to what is supposed to be an excellent service but to no avail.
I left messages to alert the powers that be to the situation but nothing was done about it. I would recommend that people ...
Verity 06.12.2000
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Advantages: Quick and easy Disadvantages: Lots of jobs to look through (is this a disadvantage?)
Jobsunlimited is an excellent recruitment website run by the Guardian and Observer newspapers. The site contains every single job advert that has been submitted to the papers and when you run a search the jobs matching your search characteristics are shown with the latest jobs first. There is also an excellent Career manager which allows you to save your searches. Each search allows you to input key words, the sector you would like to look in, a ...
Darrenworthy 20.03.2001
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