Oh, lapsed workaholic, already looked into the whole jsa thing. I'd be signing off in September anyway. By then I'll have a bursary. And would be a chunk better off than on jsa. As my partner is on jsa at the moment too we would still be eligible for housing benefit even if she gets peanuts from dwp

Hey guys thanks for the replies. I'll certainly be taking all this on board and getting it sorted out. Interview is in a couple of days so I'm just gonna go in. Do my best and let em know about the situation. That way the ball is in their court. Doubt I'll get the job anyway as its for banking and I have a CCJ against my name from a few years ago which my advisor also knew about... Which if I remember correctly stopped me being employed when I applied previously as they were told when I was asked about applying the first time. Lol Also they really need to brush up on their cv skills... They "updated" my cv as well and to be honest it Is horrible! I had my cv professionally done 3 years ago and the person who did it took one glance at the Ingeus one and threw it in the bin... Saying that its an example of how NOT to write a CV. Structured completely wrong,and full of grammatical errors. I'll be glad once September comes and I'm at college doing something I love. Oh and with regards to the letters. I received one dated 3rd of July for an appointment and the paragraph had been replaced to say "it is very important that you attend all appointments" to coincide with the ruling I'm guessing

hey guys, newbie on the forums but wanted to add my 2 cents and get some advice on this. was referred to ingeus back in may as had been on jobseekers for nearly a year. (28 and worked every day since i turned 18 except for 2 blips and was signed off work for 6 months due to me having a mental breakdown caused by severe work and stress related depression) (moral of the story, be nice to people who work in customer service call centres... "some" of them have feelings too and are majorly overworked to breaking point ) i tried to fight being referred to the work programme as i had gained a place on a college course starting in september, (which i am very happy about as it is helping me get back to some semblance of mental normality) and made sure that this was known to both JCP and ingeus. first few appointments everything was fine and all that until she mentioned about doing call centre work, and told her that i worked in one for years and that i would rather not go back there due to call centre work being the cause of my breakdown. so it was dropped at the first interview. a few weeks late she brought it up again and pushed me to apply for call centre work until i finally caved. my advisor got me to apply the for jobs online and to then pass on the details so they could check the applications and correct any errors, naively i gave them the details and then they submitted the applications for me. I originally marked down in the form that i am looking for between 16-30 hours as i feel I'd struggle to work any more than that at the moment with my mental state and due to going to college. i managed to get an interview for one of the jobs only to find that my advisor has changed it to read that i want to do full time and 40 hours, which i advised her if i am at college i would only be looking for part time. she has now put me in a predicament where at the interview i am going to look like an idiot because its marked as 40 plus hours and I know for a fact that unless i specifically apply for a part time job at this company then they are pretty much inflexible and will get someone who can work those hours. there are literally hundreds of applicants for one position at this place. so I'm left with a choice of either tell the company that i am going to college in sept and probably be shown the door, drop out of college, or reject the job and get sanctioned. i spoke to my advisor about this and her answer was to not tell them about college and just leave the job when you start college, one thing i'm not is a liar. i'm in the process of getting tested by psychologists for possible bipolar disorder and right now i really don't need this added pressure, any ideas on what I could do in this case?