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If an applicant, who had wasted our time previously, applied for another job and HR flagged it up, there was a very good chance that they wouldn't get very far in the process

Absolutely agree - I've heard it directly as well as from others. And it doesn't just affect people with disabilities. I think it is pretty common for employers to specify 'Essential' and 'Desirable' skills and attributes in the specs of a position. As someone who has served on interview...

I have heard politicians lauding the Albania scheme and claiming that the Rwanda scheme will be similarly effective. Unlikely. The Albania scheme returns Albanian economic migrants to Albania, where they can settle straight back in. I don't suppose that many Rwandan economic migrants find...

It is probably more to do with not wanting to lose face by admitting that it is a rubbish idea, but they have nothing better. They will just hope we have a period of gales and thunderstorms in the channel, call a quick election, claiming the Rwanda scheme is working. Unlikely to save them but...

What a surprise! I would suggest that she is barred from the Commons for a period of time but since she is effectively on a World Book Tour, that would be no punishment. Relevance to this thread? It could be worse, we could have Truss back! source...

... with one game to go!! (Home to Northampton.) 'Don't panic! Don't panic!'

At least he has a track record ...

I almost considered suggesting this post is in the wrong place. You have to go a long, long way down that web page before coming across the word 'Conservative'. And, without wishing to appear like a typical Conservative councillor at election time when faced with manifestos adorned with red...

True, but it would make a difference to the job-seeker (I recognise it is unlikely owing to the number of applicants). It goes back to them losing motivation - and is linked with your very valid point about 'support'. It is often all stick and no carrot. What is especially irritating, is...

That tactic worked well for Morrison's!! I fear Asda will head down the same road as the investors try to claw money back. I sometimes go in the nearest one to me, like many, it has been reducing the range of alternatives but I did find one of the managers very approachable and informative...

I have come across a fair few people with differing kinds of disabilities (not always obvious) who would dearly want to work but are never given a chance, they apply for job after job but never get to the interview stage and rarely receive even a rejection letter. Although there are dozens of...

Just to amplify this, not only does Kent have selective education, but there is a a choice of single sex and mixed grammar schools. There are also so-called 'super selective' grammars, where it is not just necessary to pass the Kent Test (its 11+ equivalent), but pass with particularly high...

To me one of the positives of supporting anyone outside of the elite, is the opportunity, just once in a while, to be drawn against a higher league team, possibly beat them but if not, try to get a draw and the opportunity of a day out with a game at swanky stadium, or to 'get them back to our...

Possibly. I can't speak for the south west* but those Kent MPs where there are or have been issues (with the exception of Mr Elphicke) it is because they are ineffective or motormouths rather than anything else. * - I've remembered the absentee MP for Torridge, and the former MP for Somerton...

What is it with the selection process in the North West? Benton gone, Wragg and Menzies not taking the whip, others accused of being part-time, uncontactable, 'generous' with their expenses claims, borderline offensive behaviour in public, or unsympathetic to the plight of others.

I did mean Iraq. Israel hit the Iranian embassy in Syria, which appears to be a close ally of Iran. Iraq is more a close ally of chaos but appears to be less closely aligned to Iran, it is also not a neighbour of Israel (but is between it and Iran). Taking people out in embassies in other...

Just one example - Hind Rajab, the six-year-old Palestinian girl, who telephoned the authorities to ask to be rescued as she was in a car where all the others - relations of hers - were dead. That story was reported around the world (including Israeli and Arab news websites), and touched a...

400/600 will now offer an hourly service between Tankerton (Priest and Sow Corner) and Sea Street Roundabout on a Sunday and in the evenings. Sunday is currently a generous 3 an hour (Greenhill two an hour). Some people are in for a shock! To those who question named routes: I can...

It is just a phrase. I've heard "I'm" instead of "you're", which makes more sense. And is probably better than my pointing to much used 'single use' bags I have placed at the end of the chute. Staff will be on auto-pilot, they probably ask these questions without thinking, the chance that...

They would probably justify that Canterbury store as it was never a 'big shop' store. A significant number of its customers were students (often mob-handed) when I used it fairly regularly (Canterbury Christ Church University is 10 - 15 minutes walk away, although there is another Tesco even...