DWP plans to ditch ridiculed jobs website

[wendy]

Universal Jobmatch set to be jettisoned after it was found to be carrying a series of fake, repeat or fraudulent jobs ads
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/m ... wt_fd%20rt

[chenrezig]

Takes me ages to go though the "new jobs" posted for just one day - so many of the adverts lead to websites where there are no contact details for whoever runs the site - I tried keeping a list of those to save me time as it was better to check through them by who had posted rather than the job title.

No way am I sending details to someone who I have no idea of who they are. It is better to pop up the jobcentre n check on their own terminals.

[JaneJ]

You would think it being an official site it would be better monitored and run

[chenrezig]

Before they changed it to this Universal Jobmatch thingy it worked perfectly well and was a lot more user friendly, especially people who were not confident using PC's, you could search by jobtype, by skills etc.

What I really resented when I was signing  on, and refused point blank to do was allow my adviser to see what jobs I was looking for - talk about Big Brother!!!