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Greetings and salutations,

Just wondered if anyone knew of some companies along the lines of Express Gifts in the Accrington/Clayton area in need of staff..

My friend's 16, fresh from school, has no qualifications and little work experience. She'll do anything that pays basically but she's struggling to find anywhere willing to hire her.

Any suggestions you can put forward would be greatly appreciated!

Thankyou please



...on a side note, does anyone know whether there's an age restriction on working for employment agencies?

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yeah, McDonalds weren't interested.. suppose the bowling alley might be worth a try though.

Cheers Willow

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Express Gifts at Clayton are always taking on staff, but at 16 she might not be able to work shifts.....but it is worth giving them a ring. What about Asda too?

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She was with Express up until Christmas Margaret, Asda's probably worth checking though!

fibi, I should have just asked you that really, you'd know better than most =)

I'll have to write her a CV or she's got no chance.

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Kelly Services tend to be a good agency for 16 yr olds, not sure if they are nationwide but thats were I send the younger guys we can't help, they are mostly commercial though might be worth looking on their website to see if they have any offices in Accy, Blackburn area, most agencies will also help out with CV's to.

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Kelly Services are nationwide - they have them down here in the south

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Cool, I shall checketh them outeth :)

A C.V's no problem, that's 2 minutes of a job

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have you tried going to connextions, its based on abby st, & they are the carreers office, they have a website with a job list on it too they are really helpfull.

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This may be a really mad idea, but have you thought of the jobcentre?

I used to go in there quite a lot, and I don't about up there, but down here they have terminals that you can use - they are touch screens, and you can use them to narrow down your search to the type of work you are looking for, the area you want to work in etc.

Jobcentres aren't just for the unemployed!

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Connextions! Now why didn't I think of them, I went there myself many years ago =)

Thanks for the input Vorlon, she's kind of given up hope with the jobcentre though, that's why I'm trying to help her out.

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The jobcentre get new jobs in all the time - I would check in there at least once a week.

Now that I think of it, you can actually check for jobs there online. I don't know what the web addy is, but full details will be in the jobcentre, or you may be able to google it.

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Web address is
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk just need to put in postcode and mile radius and it will fetch all jobs up in your area...much better than going in

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She goes to the Job centre on a regular basis for Job seekers, she's a bit demotivated by it all though otherwise I wouldn't be helping her in the first place.

She's goin to connexions later today so hopefully they can help her =)


Thanks for the help though peeps, it's appreciated ya know!

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Perhaps she should go back to school/college and get some qualifications.

JSA for under 18s is a pittance, from what I remember

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JSA?


She needs a job because the other girl she lives with is paying all the bills at the minute. She left school early too so she'd struggle to get into college..

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:eek:

My sis is in a similar situation. She went to connections and it kinda runs like job seekers only they get 'training' alegidly. They help u find jobs to go for to train for which sounds good on paper only she found herself being the new 'dogsbody'- I know everyone has to start somewhere right but she was treated like dirt and found herself hanging up clothes all day- you would of thought she would be trained on the till or something but no. To add insult to injury she got pittens- less than JSA for it- its the new slave labour I'm sure. Ok individual case but just be weary is my advice. Shes a bright girl only she messed her GCSEs up now she so regrets that! She is now looking for work under her own initive- at least she will get a normal wage- even if its a part time cleaning job or something instead of the training rate, until Sep where she will start college where u can retake GCSEs i think its a yr course which will give her more of a start hopefully. Asda and express gifts tend to take people on from Sep-crimbo as need more workers.

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JSA = JobSeekers Allowance

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ahh, Jobseekers.

I used to do an apprenticeship which I got through connexions Markuze; I earned £70 a week for 2 painstaking years which was still more than JSA pays I think (never claimed it so I dont know). It was worth the crappy wages for the training though, definately.

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I found my job on the job centre website. I still check it out once a week to see if there is anything available.
Well worth checking if you ask me. Also she could check on different companies websites and in the windows of shops.

Know what you mean about going to the job centre though. Horrible feeling. They just try and palm you off with any old job.

Good luck :)

Karen :)

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yeah go to bowling

they usually have jobs goin from what i remember last they were in need of some staff...

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macdonalds at whitebirk were advertising.

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Ossy Mills always seem to be looking for staff [when l was there last week.]
lt's so big now, promotion might be possible if she likes it. l know somebody that did that there.
Wish her good luck from us all.

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the best place to go and she will definately get a job if there is a position go dfown to the sparth house in clayton for some waitressing and just say that you have had some experence in a restaurant that isnt there any more say it closed for some treason or other so she cant get a reference i suggest if she hasnt got any qualifications and work experience that she blags her way into jobs thats how i did it and then learn on the job

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lidl! aldi! looking for jobs and look round accrington town centre aswell, umm sports centre????, a pub??? just a few, !

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Ain't no jobs in jobcentres !!! - and I'm being realistic about that - thats for all the crap jobs that can't be filled - Best advice is go knocking on doors

Imagine you're a company boss and you've a job to fill, what do you do?? -

Do you give the jobcentre a ring and hope the little scroat (who really wants to play his playstation all day) bothers to turn up for work or do you give that young lad or lass that came round the other week a call.

At least he/she could be bothered to get off their arse and come looking for work - showed initiative that !! - somebody that really, really wants to work !!

If it was you doing the hiring - which one would you take on - the jobcentre candidate or the one actively looking for work - doesn't take much thought - I know which one I'd rather have

Suggest that she makes a few copies of her cv and she begins systematically going round all the industrial sites that there are around now and call in at each of the factories/units etc - if they've got nothing now - ask if he/she could leave their cv with them for any future vacancies

Ok - it involves time and legwork but if he/she really wants a job then it will pay off

I'm giving the same advice I gave my son who at the age of 18, when Rists closed, was bemoaning the fact that "he'd have no chance of getting work with so many looking for work" - he took the advice, and within 2 weeks had got a job at a firm on the Altham Ind Est, and now 6 yrs later he is a supervisor there

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" Ain't no jobs in jobcentres !!! - and I'm being realistic about that "

that has to be the most idiotic thing I have ever read on this forum....are you seriously telling me there arent any worthwhile jobs in the job centre ?
if you are then you must living in cuckoo land...
I am sorry if I sound harsh buts laughable to be honest....I understand what your saying about no hopers turning up for interviews that the job centre have sent and that the best jobs are the ones not advertised but to say what you said is ridiculous, I got my last job and my current one from the jobcentre web site and its ace I have to say, - the difference is that if your qualified and have experience in your field etc then you will get a job no bother however you may have no work experience at all, struggled to get even part time work, have no qualifications, cant drive or whatever, have nada, nothing - then you may find it hard to get something if anything....and in that respect the job centre wont have anything for you...is that why you say it in the frist place...
if someones that desperate to work they will get a job no problem - if someones happy to lie in bed all day and collect their giro then they will amount to nothing...the workers will work and the doleys will waste their life away..

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But the "little scroat" has gone to the jobcentre so has he not got off hes arse to look for a job???

how do you know the "little scroat" isnt already employed just looking for a better job for 1 reason or another?

Confused!!!

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No, the little scroat has gone to the jobcentre, cos he knows thats what "the establishment" expect him to do and more importatly he won't get his job seekers allowance unless he does !!

Naw its just a show - " yeah, my brain hurts, but I really want a job man" - but in the meantime can I have my JavaScript allowance so I can get some cheap cider please

OK I'll accept the jobcentre have some half decent jobs sometimes but thats cos lazy employers are too damn idle to look for good staff and want an easy life

Somebody who really wants to work, puts the effort in themselves and doesn't wait for someone pushing a pen to find him/her a job

Speaking from an employment history of 34 yrs and only ever picking up a dole cheque for 2 weeks in that time