Originally posted on Ipswich
Unemployed Action.:
Ironic isn’t it? The Government ploughs millions of pounds of
taxpayers money into ‘developing’ Universal Jobmatch by tendering it out to Monster
who modified their pretty-poor job board (no, not the one they use for
monster.co.uk, one even worse than that!) into “DirectGov” colours,
just to add functionality of CV upload and tracking for jobseekers.
They replaced the ‘jobpoints’ with computers to enforce the use of Universal Jobmatch, no work coach mentions the words “job board” nowadays… the new buzz word is “Universal Jobmatch” (emphasis on new, its not new by a long chalk, excuse the pun!) and they are overly proud of this despite this matching “technology” being widely used for the last 10 years – back then the average broadband connection speed was just 512 kbit. The average Ipswich 3G speed is 4 times that. If advisers do not mention the…
They replaced the ‘jobpoints’ with computers to enforce the use of Universal Jobmatch, no work coach mentions the words “job board” nowadays… the new buzz word is “Universal Jobmatch” (emphasis on new, its not new by a long chalk, excuse the pun!) and they are overly proud of this despite this matching “technology” being widely used for the last 10 years – back then the average broadband connection speed was just 512 kbit. The average Ipswich 3G speed is 4 times that. If advisers do not mention the…
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