classic33
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And you're required to keep a digital log of your job search history. One which the DWP can access on their system.I read your first line and classed it as irrelevant to the response…..
but whether its from experience or not, job centres, libraries even your local Maccy Ds or costa coffee will have free internet access available. If your serious in looking for a job, you will use any avenue available to you. Ive not been unemployed no, but also the places i have worked have not accepted a CV as a way of applying for a job with them. Its application in writing or online…..not all places of employment only allow internet only applications, because as you state, some unemployed people wont have access to broadband or the internet at home. But they can fill in a paper application to apply for a job.
Their system is mainly agency employers, who require online registration, along with a phone number through which you can be contacted as and when it suits them.
Their assumption/current thinking being that everyone has a smartphone these days. Search "digital exclusion" for some idea of what is involved, in an issue that has got worse over the last two years.
Some people may have had contracts that were started before covid saw places being shut, and people losing their jobs. The contract you can't just walk away from.
I don't know AndyRM's situation, and I'm not going to ask either.
How many would feel happy putting their national insurance number, home address and bank details online using an open WiFi connection?
And, if the application form is online, how do you download it without a connection. Bearing in mind that most have to be filled in online, before printing off. The days of filling forms in by hand seem to be numbered.