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UC and Universal Jobmatch - ‘you must register’

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Andrew Dutton
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Thanks for the warning. I haven’t looked at UJM for some time but I note that it is - sort of - back up, and mainly nicking ads from ‘Jobflurry’.

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Clearly, someone in government shares your views Andrew, if this announcement on recruiter.co.uk is anything to go by.

In a statement sent to Recruiter, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed it will be limiting the bulk upload of job vacancies and will only allow employers to use Universal Jobmatch directly.

Commercial job boards will also be no longer able to daily refresh adverts to prioritise vacancies, while there will also be a drive to remove the duplication of job ads.

Government announces Universal Jobmatch changes

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UJM will be empty!!!!!

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Andrew Dutton - 11 April 2017 03:23 PM

UJM will be empty!!!!!

But no doubt the jobcentre will still require you to be using it for 35 hours a week.

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I’d be tempted to apply for the duplicate jobs just to see if they even notice.

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When UJM was first introduced, all the vacanices were vetted by a member of staff in each jobcentre. This was to ensure the vacancies were real and that claimants were not being put in danger. This was gradually watered down by the governement. The problem with UJM is that is has always been a poor jobs site. It’s not very easy to use and the diary system is dreadful. So, most people looking for a job use better websites like Indeed, Reed etc but the Jobcentre always insisted that you record all of this activity on UJM. In a 10 minute signing appointment or a 20 minute WFI, JCP staff do not have time to check it properly. They just scan it quickly. I’ve seen all kinds of rubbish entered into the diary and nobody notices.

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Martin Williams - 04 February 2016 03:31 PM

On yet another note, I can’t really see that for most claimants then using UJM is actually taking the steps which are most likely to lead to them obtaining employment (ie they could more usefully do something else and hence arguably wouldn’t count as actively seeking work).

But none of this seems to trouble your average DM.

Which begs the question ...With whom does the burden of proof for “likely to” rest?

[ Edited: 29 Apr 2017 at 02:37 pm by WRT Case Worker ]
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Here we go again!!!

The Department for Work and Pensions is stepping up its efforts to get more benefit claimants back to work with an automated matchmaking service. The new technology - whose developers have created an AI career coach called Bob - will be tested across England and Scotland from March 2022 in areas that have the highest ratio of vacancies to unemployed jobseekers.

The AI software is to be tried out at 20 jobcentres, including one in the Midlands, as part of the Government’s Way to Work jobs push, which aims to get half a million more people back into the workplace by the end of June.

DWP will use £1.3m robot to find people jobs in latest Universal Credit crackdown

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Paul_Treloar_AgeUK - 22 February 2022 04:37 PM

” an AI career coach called Bob “

...because an algorithm is so much better if it has a friendly name.

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Fans of Blackadder obviously.

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Remember ‘Bob’, the AI career coach - trialed in selected jobcentres from March 2022 for six months - this FOI response provides more details of the contracts and what it (not Bob) looked like on screen - haven’t spotted any commitment in the screening to evaluate how it went, or for that matter to publish any follow-up findings.

More - https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_ai_career_coach_called_bob_r#incoming-2006053