The Abingdon Summer Jobs and Support Fair is to be held in the Abingdon Guildhall on Weds 30th July 2014. It will be open to the public from 10:00 – 14:00, and will be a chance to discuss jobs, training, apprenticeships, and careers guidance, etc.
So far there is support from:
- Abingdon and Witney College (skills training, apprenticeships and traineeships)
- Ace Training (construction skills training)
- The Army and Reserves
- Dimensions Care (residential care)
- National Careers Service (careers advice and guidance)
- SOFEA (warehouse training and work experience, primarily for young people)
- Oxfordshire County Council Children’s Service.
There are also to be confirmed local hotel / hospitality chains, recruitment agencies, and retail businesses.
There is still room for some more local employers to have a stand to meet potential applicants and discuss their jobs. There’s no cost to attend on the day, and interested employers should contact Employer Adviser at Department for Work and Pensions : James Gilpin
e-mail:JAMES.GILPIN1 @ DWP.GSI.GOV.UK .
Are there any jobs left for UK residents? I have been out and about this week end and everyone that served me in shops and restaurants were Eastern Europeans or foreign. I went into a large department store in Oxford and the person who served me could not understand what I wanted. I had to ask if there was anyone who spoke English in the store. No wonder our young people cannot get jobs.
Our young people cannot get jobs because a person who served you could not understand you?
I also don’t understand you.
It is obvious black flag. Because of mass immigration the immigrants are taking jobs previously taken by the UK’s young people.
You mean they are filling those vacancies where they fulfill the criteria of being the better candidate during those selection procedures. Perfectly sensible.
Just as, throughout history, UK citizens have lived and worked in foreign countries.
It is not a good thing for a country to have high unemployment. The unemployment rate for young people in the UK is 18.5%. Someone I know lives in France and has to come back to the UK to work as the French will not give a foreign worker work if an unemployed Frenchman applies. In Spain an employer would not take a UK worker on as he would have been threatened by the Spanish workers.
Well said Black Flag, I fear you maybe flogging a dead horse though…..
‘It is not a good thing for a country to have high unemployment.’
No. Fortunately, there is no connection between high unemployment to the level of immigration. Immigration is beneficial to an economy.
‘In Spain an employer would not take a UK worker on as he would have been threatened by the Spanish workers.’
Threatened with what? Which employer / sector? Which area of Spain? Unfounded. I work for a company where I liaise with UK nationals located in Spain.
If a UK employer is giving a job to someone from elsewhere in the EU it is likely to be because no-one from the UK applied or because those that did weren’t up to the same standard.
There are hundreds of thousands of UK citizens working in other EU countries.
The rate of youth unemployment in the UK is much lower than in most of the rest of the EU.
I wish there was more immigration in Abingdon – a good cultural mix is good for society and we’re much too homogeneous here
In my experience the “Eastern Europeans” who are working in shops and other industries in this country have an excellent command of the English language.
Speaking as one who moved from Abingdon to Luton, I think Abingdon misses a lot in terms of vibrancy due to its homogeneous nature.
Food, music, customs and culture. I tell you – the ethnic mix makes Luton a fabulous place to be.
I think it’s undeniable that for unskilled workers, the availability of euro imports has enabled employers to pay lower wages.
it’s scarcity of candidates that would force up pay.
you can take the attitude that profitable businesses are good therefore lower wages are good or that the individual worker should come first and therefore they are not.
I’ll just make a quick note of your comments Neil & Iain and I shall expect you to repeat them in your next years election manifesto !
@David, I must admit this is the whitest place I have ever lived in. I am a ‘foreigner’ haling from another region of the country, and I have a slightly funny accent but do my best to fit in and talk slowly.
Perhaps I should close my business, sack my employees (one is a ‘foreigner’ in Daily Mail reader’s terms) and be sent back to where I come from, along with Pascal from the patisserie in East St Helen pushing his fab bread products on the population and that Michael from Salina’s in Bath St with his friendly nature and warm handshake. Terrible blots on the local landscape the lot of us, not to mention all the other local trades people who cant count 4 generations in the town. Send us all back and I am sure the True Local Abingdonians born within the sound of St Helens Church bells will no-longer be blocked from setting up on their own local shops and businesses as clearly they are now…….or at least in some peoples minds at least!
Steve – i’d happily defend this veiw although the town council has anything to do with immigration so nothing to do with any manifesto
What a small minded view you have Janet, though of course you are entitled to it.
As am I. When I walk through Abingdon I am often shocked at the amount of ‘local’ sorts (young and old) that appear to be only too happy to sit and smoke and generally make a nuisance of themselves, rather than get off their (often large) backsides and actually work. Oh no… That’s right, they can’t do certain kinds of jobs because they are ‘too good for them’ or are on disability (no disprespect to those who have genuine disabilities).
If people want to work, I truly believe they will find work or at least take a job and make the most of it/improve their prospects whilst working.
And whilst most of these people are dragging their sorry arses out of bed, the rest of us… Eastern Europeans included have been up for hours working!
Yes managed immigration is good but mass immigration is not. We are told that the NHS is in trouble because it cannot cope with the massive increase in the population. Similarly with social housing. I take it that most of you do not live in South Abingdon as we have many immigrants here and a growing ethnic population.
Wherever you are there are people who work, and those who work the system…In the 1980s I was made redundant and spent 3-4 years Unemployed { applying for work, before you got paid to do so, benefits seem to be available to do this now}. When the government created the Restart Programme, the amount of people who travelled the country, from 1 scheme to another, seemed you only had to be a resident in a town/county,for a certain time, to register as unemployed to get on short college courses. I was lucky, from Restart went on a 2 week course in Northcourt College/Abingdon College, which offered a springboard back into employment in Computer Based accounts, updating me all the skills I needed. Our family moved from London (Brixton Hill) in 1976, true multi-cultural…. I was 14 at the time, so viewing from a different point of view.
We took on 5 British young apprentices. All sacked within two weeks for not turning up or not even trying to do the job properly. Their attitude was amazingly bad and we really felt they didn’t want to work. so I don’t think it is a case of Europeans stealing the jobs, I think some of the time the jobs are being given away for anybody to have and it just so happens Europeans are more motivated to take them.
Steve – I’m always happy to make the case for well-managed immigration policies and the benefits of our membership of the EU.
Abingdon would be a far poorer town were it not for the positive impact of both.
I wish there was a ‘like’ button as on Facebook so we can ‘like’ some of these great comments posted here.
Perhaps not. Why does everything have to become a trending vote ? Do you only ‘like’ something more if lots of others have already ‘liked’ ? That is the way of the sheep. If you have a valid comment then make it. I doubt the rest of the world is too interested in your state of arousal.
The word “like” is in danger becoming, like, meaningless these days. If you see like wot I, like, mean.
Well ….. seems I do indeed now have a valid comment to make. Perhaps it would also be good to have an ‘unlike’ button so we could ‘unlike’ personal comments ….. starting with yours, eh Spike S?
I was merely making a nice friendly comment about ‘liking’ something that appealed to me here. Seems ‘like’ Facebook with it’s trending votes, this blog is also attracting ‘trolls’.
I’ll go back to eating grass with my flock and leave the wolf to think over his unpleasantness ….. baaa
There isn’t a shortage of jobs for uk residence, there is just a shortage of jobs they want, EU immigrants are willing to do almost any job, Uk youth just don’t want to clean or work in shops any more
is there free parking for employers?