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We have made it to week 10!Lockdown is slowly easing and everybody, including those who are shielding, are now allowed out. It is very important though, that you ensure you stick to the 2m social distancing rule. I’ve advised my parents to wait until at least next week until they go out. Why? Just look at the beaches this weekend, some people just rush out straight away and hundreds of people crowded onto beaches, increasing their risk of catching Covid-19. 5 miles queues of people waiting to get into Ikea, why?When you first go out, just go for a walk, somewhere there aren’t lots of people for you to try and dodge and make sure you don’t bump into friends and have to stop for a chat. Enjoy nature, take your time and soak up the sun, be careful though, it is very strong which might catch you out, if you’ve been stuck inside for 10 weeks!!Remember we are here for you if we are needed. Even if it is just a quick reply to let us know you are coping.Graham – southstaffsworkclubs@ 07800 600767Brian - brian@eyeswideopen-careercoaching.co.uk 07976 384195If you want to contact us by phone, please send a text or leave a voicemail message and we will get back to you as soon as we can.SCAM ALERT#ScamAlert following the launch of NHS test and trace system scammers are sending bogus texts with links asking for personal details. The real system will not ask for bank details, set up a password or PIN or call a premium rate number #bescamawareHow to do an advance job search in “Find a job”Using the normal search function can lead to seeing hundreds of vacancies, many of which are unsuitable, meaning you spend a lot of time looking through jobs you don’t want to apply for. If you spend a few minutes refining your search technique, this will mean you spend less time looking at those unwanted jobs.Sign in to your accountClick on search for jobsAt the top right of the page that opens click on “advanced search”You’ll get this page, this is how I prefer to fill it in. I tend to suggest only using one of the boxes from 1-5. My favourite is box 3.You can type any word in here, it just has to appear somewhere in the job title or description. It doesn’t matter what order you put the words in. Do not use words like and or to as every advert will have these words in! Remember the advert has to include all of the words. Don’t use too many words and try to think of all the different ways someone might describe the job you are looking for. It is best to do several searches using single words, for example carpenter, carpentry, woodwork, woodworker. Depending on how the person placing the advert has worded it, you may find one of these in an advert, but it is very unlikely you will have all four in one advert and this section is for ALL words to be in the advertThis one is for match exact phrase, so if you put administrator office, then that is how it has to be worded in the advert. It is much more likely the advert will say office administrator. Therefore take care how you input words in this boxIn this box you could use all of the words we thought of for box 1 - carpenter, carpentry, woodwork, woodworker and even add some more like wood, joiner, joinery etc and it will search for any of them. It only needs one of them to be in the advert to deliver a result. As it is looking in the title and body text, you could even be clever and being a carpenter, you may need to use certain tools, so you could use words like Chisel, Plane and words that describe the sort of work you may need to do, such as Tenon and JointThis box is for excluding words. If you are a carpenter and not a joiner, then we could put the words carpenter and carpentry into box 3 and put joiner and joinery in box 4. That way any adverts for a carpenter will be shown, but those that stipulate joinery will notThis box will only look for words in the job title, not in the body text describing the job and/or key skills you will need. Again, it is any word, so you don’t have to worry about their order or how many you inputThis is for salary expectations. If you only want to see jobs that pay from ?20,000 to ?30,000 then input these figures. If you don’t want a job that pays less than ?25,000 put this figure into the top box and then either leave the bottom box empty or put a really high figure in such as ?100,000This is for the type of contract, if it is permanent work you are after then click on permanent. I often suggest leaving it as any, then you won’t rule out a job that is advertised as temporary but could turn into permanentIt is best to trial different words and phrases for both inclusion and exclusion and when you find a good combination use that as your primary search and then keep trialling new words to see if you can make your search any better.Keep scrolling down the page and you will find these optionsThis choice works in conjunction with box 9. I suggest you set box 9 first and then decide on how you set box 8. So, we’ll come back to this option in a moment.I tend to suggest we start with your home postcode in this box. It’s where you live and where you’ll be travelling from. Just type your postcode in to the box. After using that option you could do further searches based on areas you are familiar with for the type of industry you are in. For example, if you work in the ceramics/pottery industry you might want to search around the Stoke area. You can just put in a town or city, so just type in Stafford, Stoke, Telford, Wolverhampton or Birmingham into this box and then use box 8 to refine the search further.8. Back to box 8. If you type in your postcode, WV10 8QW and leave box 8 as only in, then you will only get jobs shown that include the postcode WV10 8QW. This may be good if you live in an area that has lots of shops or industry, but not if you live in a rural area. I suggest using the drop down arrow (marked with an orange arrow) to pick a radius of travel from your set location. You can choose from 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100 miles. This is a radius of a circle around the centre of the location you have chosen. This means, it may be 6 miles in the car or it may be 7 miles by bus, but it gives you a good indication of what is close and what isn’t. If you have chosen an area such as Birmingham, you may want to leave it as “only in” as you specifically want jobs in the city centre. You can use Google maps to pin point the names of towns where you know your favoured industry is, or where you would like to work. You can also use Google maps to look at public transport routes, if you have to catch the bus to work, you would need to find the route it takes, how long it takes and what times these buses run. If you don’t know how to do that, don’t worry, next week we will be looking at that topic.I prefer to see lots of jobs on one page, rather than only seeing a few and having to keep opening new pages. It is personal preference, so use the drop down menu to select how many jobs you’d like on each page. I choose 50.I prefer to leave this selection as most recent. This means a job advert that was uploaded 1 minute ago will be seen first, followed by a job advert that was uploaded 5 minutes ago and so on. You may prefer to choose most relevant – this will show you jobs that most closely match your search criteria first. For example, if you put carpenter, carpentry, joiner and joinery into your search criteria, it will show you any jobs that have all four words in first, along with looking at location, distance etc. This will be followed by jobs that match only 3 words, then two etc. If your choice is for salary, then choose one of those two options.A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to?Disability Confident. If you feel you have a disability then you can tick this box. You may find it limits your search, as many good smaller employers may not have registered as a disability confident employer and you may lose out on career opportunities.If you have a preference for either full time or part time, choose one of those options, otherwise just leave it as any.Your choice here will depend on how often you look at Find a Job. If you look every day, then choose last 24 hours, if you look once a week then pick last 7 days.Now all you need to do is click on the green search button and let it find you some jobs.This is what I found with my carpenter jobs. If you found that there were no jobs following your chosen criteria, you can click on the “change” link, see arrow, and this will take you back to the advanced search options page and you can change anything you like. I changed my “only in” to “within 10 miles of” and got one job advert instead of zero.If you like the search results then you can click on the green button (arrowed) that says create an email alert. Find a Job will then email you at times set by yourself on that page, so every day or every 7 days with any jobs that have been uploaded that meet your criteria.Another tip, read the adverts that you find, even if the job isn’t really suitable or not what you are after, as you can pick up on keywords that employers use to describe their jobs and then use these in your search box. I picked carpenter at the start for a reason that I don’t know at the finish. I then just thought of different ways of describing the work. This advert, which I searched for just using carpenter also uses two other words I suggested, “joiner” and “carpentry”. Reading the advert though, you may want to add the word fix, or the phrase “1st fix”. Be aware though, that it may be “first fix and not 1st fix”. If you are an experienced kitchen fitter then it may pay to try these words as well.At this point this is all a learning experience in finding out which selections give you the best results for you. Once you’ve cracked that, select the create email alert button. If you later find a better way of searching, you can create a new email alert and delete the old one.To find your email alerts, click on “Your Account” at the very top of the page and then click on “Your email alerts”If you get stuck, aren’t finding the right results or find other problems when using “Find a Job” just get in touch and we’ll sort you out.That’s it for this week, apart from a reminder to stay safe and indoors as much as you can and get in touch with us if you want to;Facebook - - @SSWorkClubs Our Web Site - – southstaffsworkclubs@Graham, Brian and the South Staffs Work Club team. ................
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