To think Universal Job Match is shit?

[crunchymint]

This is a site that if you are on JSA you have to use. You put in your skills and up comes every day jobs that are matched that you are supposed to apply for. If you don't you have to explain why.

I have been matched with jobs that need a Civil Engineering Degree, which I have not got, because I meet a couple of the general requirements such as experience of managing staff. Also nursing managers - I am not a qualified nurse. I am sick of wasting time having to explain on the site why these jobs are not suitable.

It’s a terrible site. There is also a lot of spam job ads as well. I think Indeed is a lot better.

Sure I have to go through Universal Job Match and THEN do my real job search. Total waste of time.

So just apply for them.

and waste the employers time who i may in future apply for a job i can do?

So just apply for them.

Which means that you neither value your time, nor the time of the prospective employers.

It depends how the IT system is set up. If you can attach a pdf of your cv and a general application (that you dont target) then it might just be quicker to send the applications.

Fyi im in another country, recently was unemployed and now work in a job center. In our system you have to press a button to say that they have looked at the job suggestions every week, apply for min 2 jobs a week, and record those in their joblog. Much better use of everyones time.

Apply, as you are supposed to be spending 6 hours a day looking for a job, it help fills the time.

Have you considered writing to your mp about this?

It is a crap site. You can't put in many filters so it gives me jobs that require degrees, experience in industries I don't have and unsuitable salary ranges.

If there were 6 hours worth of suitable jobs to apply for for every person out of work, there would be a 0% unemployment rate.

It's bullshit box-ticking nonsense.

TheButterflyOfTheStorms, then you are supposed to get on you bike and look for work, like the wonderful Mr Tebbit's father did. No wonder the unemployed are labelled feckless by hard-working billionaire newspaper owners.

@Ifailed

IKR?

OMG I'm totally with you OP!!

it keeps suggesting jobs in care homes that want RGNs or at least healthcare NVQs - my specialism is nothing whatsoever to do with sodding healthcare or nursing, it may aswell be suggesting I apply to fucking NASA - argh!!!!

and don't get me started on having to "update your notes with what you've done outside UJM...."

I went to sign on today and the woman asked me what I'd been doing over the last two weeks to find work. Erm, isn't the point of you having access to my account so that you can see my activity?

"Well yes but I haven't looked" FFS what is the point in me spending an hour a fucking day doing it then!!!!!

I've only used it once, 12 years ago when I was out of work for a few months and even then it was terrible! How can they have not sorted it out yet ?!

It's truly soul destroying. I was told 'looking for a job is a full time job'. YES it is on HIM because it's so poorly done. I'm sure they've had MLM on there as Well

As an employer it is farcical. Several 100 applicants within hours. Contact 10 to move to the next stage. None.... Yes none... followed up. Job advert in the paper 5 people call within hours all keen. No previous experience is needed as training is offered so we can recruit from most backgrounds if the applicant fits.

When I was in it a few years ago when it was new, it suggested I apply for a job as a naval architect. Great but I have no experience whatsoever in that area. At least my adviser was nice and didn't push it.

If you are on the old style JSA and not on universial credit, you can use The Data Protection Act to remove your consent from using UJM. When I was on JSA a couple of years ago, I stopped using UJM as it places a supercookie on your PC. I used to show my jobsearch in a printed table. Have a google for UJM and Data Protection😀

Not sure if the rules are different now, but when I was on JSA I didn’t have to use UJM, if I was applying for jobs elsewhere. I recorded them on a print out.
Can you meet your target from indeed and other websites?

Sorry just to add - I did. have to register on it but I wasn’t penalised for not applying or pushed to apply for jobs through it if I applied for enough on other sites.

This is why i haven't bothered applying for job seekers allowance after being made redundant.

Yes his FATHER. Because his mother was probably expected to keep herself available to care for elderly relatives.

Now though everyone is expected to do both............move miles away and yet still be available to care.

If you don't claim JSA, you don't get NI contributions which may affect your state pension

Only if you don't pay the contributions

YANBU op. I work with a client who has to use UJM every week and it is appalling. There's never anything suitable. It's a total pita.

The conspirator in me would say it's like that deliberately. The government would never want to miss an opportunity to make the unemployeds lives a bit more miserable.