Glen Curoopen is a customer services advisor at the Jobcentre; Glen works closely with the people who are eligible for the Future Jobs Fund scheme. Part of his role is to help the customers with selecting from the Future Jobs Fund posts and advising customers with filling in applications.‘’I have found the Future Jobs Fund scheme to be of a valuable service for me and the personal advisors as we now have something different to offer the customers between 18-24 years of age’’
‘’The Future Jobs Fund has the ability to offer jobs which gives valuable experience to customers. This in turn, can enhance a customer’s career goal or even offer our customers the opportunity of a change of career. This will help them gain new skills that are needed to progress further into gaining permanent employment’’
‘’the Future job fund is great educational experience for the customers as he/she will learn about themselves, gain many skills and get six months paid work experience. They will also be able to gain the confidence that they might not have had due to constant rejection when applying for jobs, so hopefully this project will give them the platform to get back into full time employment’’
‘’From my experience when a customer does gain a job interview via this project and they let me know, I see a difference in a customer’s altitude as they become more positive about applying for other jobs etc as they begin to believe there is some hope, the majority that do manage to get a Future Jobs Fund job are all extremely happy to be given an opportunity to work and learn. We have also had some ex-offenders apply for vacancies under the Future Job Fund scheme and they are surprised but grateful of being offer jobs as they is a mistaken belief that because of a criminal record, they will not ever gain employment or even get back into employment.
‘’The Jobcentre is looking forward to working with and alongside the Future Jobs Fund team in phase two. This will help many more of our customers gain some of the great opportunities available through the Future Jobs Fund scheme’’
