First Review

I had my first review last week with my job adviser. I sat down on the chair at the cubicle where of course there is no privacy for my review and where other jobseekrs looking up jobs on the computers could hear everything I said. My job advister asked me how my job searching was going and I told her it was going OK. She asked me what it was I wanted to work at so I reminded her what I was interested in.

In all fairness I'm sure its not easy trying to remember each job seekers job interests when the job advisers could be seeing up to five or eight different people a day. She asked if I had a C.V. and I told her I showed her my C.V. on the first day and that she photo copied it so she then checked her computer and went into my profile and found my C.V.

She never said anything about my C.V. so that C.V. course "Gateway" was a waste of time as I already said and makes you wonder why I had to do it in the first place. She noticed I had a certain qualification in something and thought if I did a train the trainer course I could then teach about that something. The thing is the qualification I got was a course I was made to do and while it looks great on my C.V. I have no interest in doing it again or even teaching it. Never the less she had a look at the Fas website to see if there were any train the trainer courses coming up, luckily for me one had only started the week before which was a full time course that ran to December and was in the evening time.

I said that I had no interest in doing it and not only that but the course was in the evening time which I couldn't do as I have other commitments on in the evening time. Most evening Fas courses start at 7pm and finish at 10pm at night. I told her I had no problem doing the course if it was a day course 9-5 sort of thing but I wasn't doing an evening course. She said that was OK and the course was something to think about and if there was another one coming up I might have to do that. I therefore didn't have to point out the fact that on my personal progression plan I had said "Days" for my work pattern so a Fas course is no different, if it is on in the evening time then good luck to them as I won't be able to do it. Even unemployed people do have a life.

I don't see the point in doing a Fas course anyway as just like the C.V. course it is a waste of time as at the end of the course all you get is a piece of paper with your name on it and thats it. There is no job at the end of it and the whole point of Jobpath is to get you a job but if your made to do a Fas course in a course that you have absolutely no interest in doing then its not going to lead to a job, its that simple.

Back to my review. I have to say that my job adviser is a nice lady who does treat me with respect and is easy to talk to, the same can't be say for some of the other job advisers in there. She told me to look at getting working work experience in the work that I was interested in doing. I did go the next day to a business establishment that specializes in the type of work that I am interested in doing and they did tell me they are not taking on anyone for work experience at the minute. They took my details and asked me how long I was on Jobpath for and when I started. They said as I'm on it for a year there is a possibility that they might be able to give me work experience before then, so all I can do on that front is wait and see if they get back to me. At least I can tell my job adviser this the next time I see her for my next review.