Employment and Voluntary Work Help and Advice When Looking for a Job New Deal Support 4 learning Starting Your Own Business 3rd Age Employment Volunteer - Why ? Voluntary Work

Help and Advice When Looking for a Job

Have a look at information on:

• Where do I look?
• How do I write a winning CV?
• How do I fill in application forms?
• How can I improve my interview techniques?
• Am I entitled to any benefits whilst I am working?
• How do I find reliable childcare?
• What is the minimum wage?
• Where can I find career advice?

New Deal 50 plus

"New Deal is a key part of the government's Welfare to Work strategy. Personalised programmes of work and skills training opportunities, delivered locally, are aimed at helping unemployed people into work. There are programmes specifically for lone parents, disabled people, 50+ and partners of the unemployed.

All programmes are accessible through Employment Services and, whether you are an unemployed individual looking for a job or a company with vacancies to offer, your first point of contact should be your local Job Centre."

For more information see the newdeal or employment service websites.

Support 4 learning

Jobsearch, careers and education guidance website

Starting Your Own Business

Look at some useful advice if you are thinking of starting a new business in Tameside.

3rd Age Employment

3rd Age employment sites and general employment site.

Age Positive - Gives information on age discrimination and legislation as well as opportunities

Volunteer Why?

People volunteer for a wide variety of reasons, especially wanting to help others. But it's also OK to want some benefits for yourself from volunteering.

Some people are uncomfortable with the notion that a volunteer "benefits" from doing volunteer work. There is a long tradition of seeing volunteering as a form of charity, based on altruism and selflessness. The best volunteering does involve the desire to serve others, but this does not exclude other motivations, as well.

Instead of considering volunteering as something you do for people who are not as fortunate as yourself, begin to think of it as an exchange.

Consider that most people find themselves in need at some point in their lives. So today you may be the person with the ability to help, but tomorrow you may be the recipient of someone else's volunteer effort. Even now you might be on both sides of the service cycle: maybe you are a tutor for someone who can't read, while last month the volunteer ambulance corps rushed you to the emergency room. Volunteering also includes "self-help." So if you are active in your neighborhood crime watch, your home is protected while you protect your neighbors' homes, too. Adding your effort to the work of others makes everyone's lives better.

Voluntary Work

If you would like to learn a new skill, meet new people and put something into the community, then how about doing some voluntary work? The following organisations might be able to help you find a suitable place. Click on the links to find out more:

• Ashton Volunteer Centre - Find out opportunities here in Tameside
• Age Concern - The national charity for older people
• Charity Shops - in and around Tameside
• Citizen's Advice Bureau - The CAB for free information, advocacy and advice
• Do-it.org.uk - search for voluntary placements in this country and others
• The Experience Corps - You have trained for it all your life
• The Pension Service - The rules about volunteering and how it relates to your Pension.

The Hyde branch of the British Red Cross Society meets once a fortnight at 32 chapel Street, Hyde to organise and train for events.

• First Aid Duties
• Theatres
• Fetes
• Community Open Days

Could you spare some time to collect for the Red Cross during the Red Cross week in May or June? or would you like to learn first aid? If you can spare as much or as little time as you feel, then the Red Cross would like to hear from you. Contact Norman Wood - 368 5475.

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