Quote: Him "At least he knows who he's hoping to work for. Plenty of jobs on the Universal Jobmatch site (jobcentre plus website) don't tell you the name of the employer or where it is other than a city name. And often don't tell you the hours of work.'"
I watched a Billy Connolly video on Youtube last night where he ranted about checking in at an airport and how "Back in t'day" you turned up, bought your ticket, they gave you your ticket, asked you where you wanted to sit, you pointed to a plan and they tore off a sticker from the plan with your seat number on it, stuck it to your ticket and that was that, no-one could sell that seat again because there was no sticker for it !
His point was - it worked, it couldn't fail to work unless all the stickers fell off the plan.
The JobCentres used to have a similar system, they got job vacancies rung into them, they wrote out a card, they described the job, the pay, where it was and the hours, they had lines to fill in on the card so they had to give you that information, a person took the call and asked those questions and if the employer said "I don't know" to the question "How much per hour are you offering" or "Dont know" to "Where is the job located" then the card was binned - those cards then got displayed on boards and when someone wanted to apply fot he job - well you know the rest.
Do things work better now ?