St Nick?s Job Clubs
The Parish Church of St Nicholas, Rawreth, is pleased to be able to serve our community by offering two kinds of Job Clubs from the New Year 2010.
Space@StNick?s
Have you just spent a long, frustrating week at home, because you have lost your job? Have you found it a lonely experience, cut off from your familiar world of work and colleagues and purpose? Could you do with a chance to get out of the house, to clear your head, and perhaps to ?chew the fat? with others who are trying to deal with similar situations of unemployment?
Well, if so, Space@StNick?s is there for you!
The church building will be open on Fridays from noon until 2.00pm. Tea, coffee and light snacks will be available, free of charge. If you need someone to talk to ? in confidence, if you want ? there will be someone available for you. If you just want to chat with others there, that?s fine, too. It?s your space?
Skills@StNick?s
Perhaps the thing you really need as you process your unemployment situation is a bit of a helping hand to get back on the hunt for a job? Perhaps it has been many years since you had to update your CV? Maybe you have never had to do it before? Or, maybe it is the application forms that bamboozle you, or the job interviews that make you so nervous, or?.whatever the skill you might want some help with as you search for new work, we want to help you with it.
The church building will be open on Wednesdays from 8.00pm until 9.30pm for Skills@StNick?s. Refreshments and a warm welcome will await you there, alongside training and advice from some church members who have experience in recruitment, writing CVs, interview-technique, and a number of other areas. All to help you a little at a difficult time?
So, if either ? or both! ? of these Job Clubs could be for you, or someone you know, then please come along and make use of them! You will be made most welcome!
[St Nick?s Job Clubs will start in January 2010, and will keep running, twice each week, for as long as there is a need.]
The best thing about this is that help is being offered straight away. Historically clubs like these to help the unemployed have tended to only be offered after 6 months when someone is already very demoralised and had thier chances reduced as employers tend to take a negative view of someone once they have been out of work for a few months. Does the Wednesday Evening session include help for those who have been told that their job is at risk?
Great idea. I wonder if it will also be of benefit to some of our local teenagers who, like my daughter, are feeling totally demoralised at this moment at not even being able to find some Saturday or Christmas temporary work?
The thing that she is finding hard to comprehend is that despite spending so much time on filling in set applications forms, answering loads of online psychometric questions and preparing C.V’s and covering letters and having had some customer service experience, not one single local business takes the time to call or email to acknowledge her application at all!!
I just hope that this does not bode ill for the future?
CCR
Hi all
Thanks for the encouraging words…we would have loved to be able to set up even earlier – before Christmas – but I was aware that that was pushing it a bit. New Year 2010 we will be ,though, God willing, which will hopefully be of value to those hitting the New Year with an air of despondency. And yes, that can certainly include those who are feeling the anxiety of wondering if they will be next with the P45…..
Hopefully, we can be of some help to college/school-leavers, amonst all this. My undertanding from the latest stats is that something like 1 in 3 of our young people are in unemployment (or NEET)- situations. Horrible. My colleague Alice Smith – who acts as Bishop’s Advisor for Youth Work in south and east Essex, is busy mapping provision from the churches regarding youth unemplyment, at the moment…