Land a new job for yourself and help others find their dream role too by becoming a work coach

LAND a new job for yourself and help others find their dream role too by becoming a work coach.

Based in job centres nationwide, work coaches offer vital support to the unemployed, helping them fulfil their potential and gain financial independence in a rewarding role.

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There are more than 14,000 work coaches across the UK and the Department for Work and Pensions is recruiting hundreds more as part of the Government’s £3.5billion drive to boost employment and the economy.

Offering tailored support to jobseekers, work coaches assist candidates with a range of tasks, including CV writing, recognising transferable stills, making job applications stand out and arranging practice interviews.

They can even sort out financial aid to cover travel costs and interview clothing — and continue to support the most vulnerable candidates once they are back into work.

To succeed, you’ll need to be customer-focused and able to work with empathy and compassion alongside people who need your backing.

This is an office-based role, but you’ll be busy working with jobseekers, employers and colleagues through a combination of digital, telephone and face-to-face contact on a daily basis.

New recruits will be given 30 days’ full training, and current staff say the satisfaction they receive from changing people’s lives is the best part of the job.

Kash Choudhury is a work coach based in Leeds, who helps dozens of local jobseekers.

He said: “The claimants I work with can be at different stages of their journey in finding work.

“It gives me a great sense of achievement when one of my claimants successfully finds a job.”

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride, urged anyone with an interest in helping others into employment to consider the vacancies.

He said: “Work coaches are playing a vital role in our drive to help thousands more into work, fulfil their potential and grow the economy.

“I encourage anyone looking for a rewarding role supporting people to transform their lives to apply and start an exciting career at the DWP.” The agency is also recruiting Universal Credit case review workers, who are given responsibility for ensuring people are receiving the payments they are entitled to.

To find out more, search ‘DWP EO jobs’ online or visit dwpjobs-eorecruitment-microsite.co.uk/

JOINING THE JOB ‘CIRCUS’

THE days of having just one job interview are long gone, with the recruitment process lasting 44 days on average.

With firms asking for up to five interviews, recruiters have dubbed the new trend “Circus Ring Hiring” because of the hoops candidates have to jump through.

Khyati Sundaram, CEO of hiring experts Applied, said: “It can be a demoralising experience for candidates who are expected to jump through hoop after hoop in order to “prove” their ability to perform, but it’s important to not to lose sight of the end goal.”

Here are her tips . . . 

A £25,000 booster

SMALL businesses are facing tough times but you could win a £25,000 helping hand through the new Simply Business ‘Business Boost’ initiative.

The cash grant is designed to help SMEs struggling with rising business costs.

The winner will be chosen by a panel of top experts including Baroness Karren Brady, Mark Maciver, founder of Slidercuts and Harpreet Kaur, winner of BBC’s The Apprentice 2022 and co-founder of Oh So Yum.

Alan Thomas, UK CEO at Simply Business said: “Small businesses are built on big dreams, and we know finance plays a huge part. We want to make a genuine transformational impact to one owner’s life.”

Enter by Oct 14 at simplybusiness.co.uk/business-boost/

JOBSPOT

THEME park giant MERLIN has launched an engineering academy. To find out more, see lnkiy.in/merlinengineering.

See you in court

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WANT to give back to your community and improve your CV? Then become a magistrate – a part-time volunteer who hears cases in their local area in both family and criminal courts.

The Ministry of Justice is seeking to hire 2,000 new magistrates. Currently just 13 per cent of magistrates are from ethnic minority backgrounds and only one in five is aged under 50. Mariam Aslam- Digger, 34, from Manchester has been a magistrate for two years.

Born into a working class Pakistani family, she is also commercial director at a marketing agency.

Mariam said: “It’s so fulfilling. It’s important the magistracy reflects the local community it serves, so we need people from all backgrounds to apply.”

See icanbeamagistrate.co.uk.

JOBSPOT

SOCIAL mobility charity the SUTTON TRUST has opened applications. See suttontrust.com/our-programmes.