The DWP have awarded Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited a 2 year contract to provide jobsearch support for newly unemployed professionals. At present, the scheme is very much in its infancy, but we have already provided the service to professionals based in the West Midlands and the North West. The scheme works by the Jobcentre Plus Adviser referring their clients through to us, and within 24 hours we arrange an appointment, usually over the telephone as the service is nationwide.This appointment is about 45 mins long, and we cover a whole range of topics, concentrating as required on particular areas. At the end of the consultation we provide an action plan to the job centre and the client, and continue to provide support as required by email.
If you want to take advantage of this service, you need to be unemployed, and also speak to your adviser rather than ourselves as the referral has to come from them.
Jonathan Fagan is MD of http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/ and senior career coach at http://www.jbfagan.co.uk/
You can call him on 0207 127 4343. Our contract number is AAA271601 if you want to refer us to your adviser.
Comments
The Jobcentre is completely hopeless and a scandalous waste of public money.
The funding pays for about 45 mins of telephone advice and then we provide any follow up services free of charge - Ten-Percent Legal has always given careers advice by email to anyone free of charge, and this has not changed even with the market being so awful.
We also provide the service to all professionals, not just lawyers, so to date we have advised managers from the printing industry, sales managers and other executives.
Perhaps '25 Years Qualified' would like to try the service to see if we can help, and we could publish his/her feedback and comments on the blog afterwards (positive or negative).
Jonathan Fagan, MD
Ten-Percent.co.uk Limited
Fortnightly humiliation of having to queue to get in, treated like you are trying to scrounge your way into £60 per week, treated like a teenager who is deliberately avoiding school...
I say pay Jonathan anything that the job centre is getting because he will at least bother to phone and talk to my daughter as if she's a professional human being. -and she's never had the opportunity to make money just rack up a debt for her education.
In doing so, he sets a standard with his genuine interest and knowledge of the market which can only work in your favour now or in the future, so take advantage of it
Its all followed up in writing so you spend the time concentrating on what is said rather than note taking.
Its the best 45 minute consultation I have had on my career to date.
PS The Jobcentre was very helpful as well,they gave me the completed SL2JP which I posted with my CV to Jonathan.Thank you