Thread: Employment options, Perth northern subs?

A lot of the mining companies are screaming for people with HR / recruitment skills. But it might mean FIFO for a while.

Go and register with one of the Job Service Providers, you know, the ones that
replaced the CES that the Howard government closed down. Get stuffed around by the inexpert, unqualified, uncaring, and inexperienced. Don't expect them to find you a job though. This is not the name of the game. They are there to milk as much money from the government by "servicing" the unemployed as they possibly can.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Go and register with one of the Job Service Providers, you know, the ones that
replaced the CES that the Howard government closed down. Get stuffed around by the inexpert, unqualified, uncaring, and inexperienced. Don't expect them to find you a job though. This is not the name of the game. They are there to milk as much money from the government by "servicing" the unemployed as they possibly can.

Ummm, Brian...that's who I have been working for...
So I guess that's sorted my "skills" out then, hey?
Mike

BMK
I agree 100%. Have thought seriously about FIFO and you're right it's probably a good solution and bears more consideration. I've recommended it to many of my own candidates (some more successfully than others ). It would certainly be more interesting than Job Network!
Cheers
Mike

Originally Posted by 2 rocks

Ummm, Brian...that's who I have been working for...
So I guess that's sorted my "skills" out then, hey?
Mike

I had already worked that out. I have been waiting years to find someone from one of the Job Network agencies to bounce those lines off.

My last job before retirement was as a DSS Field Officer. My region took part in one of the early trials of private sector employment agencies. Those agencies that had expressed interest were given a representative selection of CES clientele to attempt to place in gainful employment.

Fortnightly meetings were to be held to note progress and discuss problems. At the first meeting the proprietor of one agency, an aggressive loud female 30'ish yuppie type wanted to know when she was going to get a group of people capable of being placed in employment instead of the collection of "bludgers, deadsh#ts, and d##kheads" she had been given. Murmurs of agreement from the other agency representatives. Grins and suppressed chuckles from the DSS Review and Field Staff. With ill concealed delight the CES co-ordinator told her that she had a typical cross section of job seekers, the genuine, the lazy, the non-english speaking, ex-prisoners, aboriginals, skilled and unskilled, mature age etc. and in fact they had taken mercy upon the agencies and weeded out the real duds so as not to frighten off the agencies. Also informed the assembled reps. that this is what the CES staff dealt with all day every day and what they could expect if the Govt's proposals were implemented.

Ex CES staff who went to work in the Jobs Network told me how they were gob-smacked by the amount of money the Govt. was paying these agencies for a variety of services without placing a job seeker in work. One told me how many thousand dollars per week he was making for his new employer just doing initial assessments/admission interviews. Job seekers also told us that they felt they were just being used by these agencies with rarely any sight of a job. DSS staff quickly worked out that many of the agencies had found a convenient milch cow and wre sucking vigorously.