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Obair meeting?

  • 14-08-2013 9:36pm
    #1
    carzony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭


    I recieved a letter from the SWF to say i'v to attend a meeting next week. The letter mentions somthing about a group session? From what I have heard it's just a presentation about what options the social welfare has to offer?

    Anyone attended these meetings?


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  • #2
    yellowcrayon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭yellowcrayon


    Im recently unemployed and I got a letter about 3-4 weeks after signing on to go to one of these meetings.

    The first meeting is a group meeting where they'l show you a presentation about the options available to you e.g. Jobbridge, FAS courses, CE scheme.

    At the end of the meeting, they schedule another meeting with you (mine was for the week after), and its a one-on-one meeting with someone working in the Employment Office and they discuss the situation you are in and show you a few more options e.g. online learning/courses.

    I thought it was helpful enough, and I was given the person's direct email so I could email him with any courses I wanted to do. I never got a response after waiting 12 days, and had to go over his head to get answers.
    In my experience, and the experience of a few friends who have gone to these meetings, they are helpful in giving you basic information about FAS etc., but useless in actually helping you to actually start a course or help you get allowances or funding for it.

    I hope maybe someone else can comment with a more positive experience for you.


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    You first go to a group meeting and they give you a presentation on different options - after that you goto either a person in Fas/Intreo or a person in the Local employment service network/(obair) - I found this very very useful and helpful - the les person is like a jobs coach - The one I went to is still helping me out - 4 years later!!!

    He has gone through my cv, assisted me in applying for courses, helped me get a CE placement, keeps an eye out on jobs of interest for me and lets me know.

    If you don't engage with the process though they can cut your jobseekers allowance

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    carzony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭carzony


    I actually changed some thing around and went today. Nothing new, I'v actually done it once before. Once she found out i'v done several courses she just took my number and said she'd probably ring me in a few weeks time.

    I reckon it's to weed out the lazy feckers lol


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