THE chairman of the Economic Affairs Scrutiny panel, Deputy Geoff Southern, has placed an advertisement in the JEP asking for Islanders to get in touch about difficulties they have had finding a job.
The advertisement poses three questions which respondents are invited to answer.
They are: Are enough apprenticeships offered to local people? Are too many jobs available to non-local workers? Are there enough job places for school leavers? The advertisement adds: ‘This is your opportunity to tell government what you think.’
The panel says that it wants to hear from apprentices, employers and anyone with an opinion on the subject to piece together an accurate and rounded picture of the job market.
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I would say that the majority of all financial jobs are not advertised in Jersey. They reckon that in 2007 hundreds of new employees entered finance on J Cat. Where were the hundreds of adverts over the year for the jobs?
If finance is a biggie to the States then why dont the finance companies invest in our schools and train school leavers. There would be no need to import so many J cats and then no issues with housing as the workforce are already here instead of jumping island to work else where.
I disagree with Mark and believe jobs in finance are advertised in accordance with legal requirements. Who is the ‘they’? I have no idea how many job seekers came to the island on a J Cat.
Training school leavers is important and should take place. Jersey also needs to accept that gaps may still need to be filled by experienced workers from elsewhere.
I find the questions posed by Scrutiny to be leading and a little biased.
I would say that there are not enough jobs for school leavers on the islands. I am a student at university and have returned back home to Jersey for the summer. Much like the majority of my friends, i have found it astonishingly hard to find a job of any kind for the summer. This has left me worrying about how i will cope with the financial demands of university in the years to come. Because of this I doubt i will return to the island next summer as it will be easier to find a job on the mainland.
I do not believe this to be right, surely the Island should be encouraging its youth to return ??
i am a local lad and i think it is not as easy to find work in the island as it used to be. i started going to night college of my own back to give myself better chance for work and am nearly fully qualified. and keep getting told the same thing that i don’t have any experience. (its a catch 22.)
I am concerned about the lack of recognition regarding ‘equal pay for work of equal value’. I am aware of significant ongoing disharmony within health with regard to this issue which has led to some extremely competent and highly skilled staff resigning.
THERE ARE NO JOBS FOR THE LOCAL PEOPLE ANY MORE
OR THE DISABLED…SO THE KIDS WHO ARE LEAVING SCHOOL HAVE NO CHANCE I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR WORK FOR 2 YEARS AS I’VE GOT OSTEOARTHRITIS..I USED TO WORK FOR CHECKERS FOR YEARS AND WALKED OUT DUE TO A BREAKDOWN BEEN FOR INTERVIEWS BUT THEY TELL ME I DON’T HAVE EXPERIENCE..THAT’S A LAUGH EMPLOYERS DON’T LIKE IT IF YOU GOT SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR HEALTH LOOK IN ANY SHOP AND SEE HOW MANY LOCAL PEOPLE ARE EMPLOYED I’M JERSEY AND I’VE BEEN LET DOWN BY JERSEY JOB MARKET IT’S ABOUT TIME SOMETHING WAS DONE TO GET LOCAL PEOPLE WORKING IN THE ISLAND
I AM A JERSEY BORN AGED 49 AND I THINK IT IS INPOSSIBILE TO GET WORK EVERY JOB I APPLIED FOR AT CYRIL LE MARQUAND HOUSE THAT IS A STATES JOB I HAVENT EVEN GOT AN INTERVIEW I DID REPORT THIS TO SOCIAL SECURITY AND THEY JUST PUT IT ON THERE RECORDS I WENT TO COLLEGE AND QUALIFIED WITH A DIPLOMA IN IT THE NEW CLAIT I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THE JOBS ARE ALREADY GONE BUT THEY HAVE TO ADVERTISE THEM BY LAW IS THIS FAIR I DONT THINK SO WHEN YOU ARE OUT OF WORK YOU SHOULD BE FIRST ON SOME SORT OF WAIGHTING LAIST THIS WOULD BE MOORE FAIR AND THEN GIVEN THE TRANING WITH THE JOB THIS THEN WOULD BE FAIR TO ALL NOW MATTER WHAT YOUR AGE