Working For Free Now Are We?

As you may know I've been unemployed for a while now and last week had an interview for a place that seemed to go pretty well. I even had a voice mail from the guy who interviewed me today just to say he hadn't forgotten about me and that he hoped to call me later to offer me something if I was still interested. Great I though! However, instead I had a call from the Job Centre asking if I would be interested in doing a work trial for this company, basically working for free for anything up to 3 weeks so they could see if they liked me.

Hold The Phone! Working for free, this is what it's come down to now?

All I can say is congrats to the companies out there doing this. You get to check out the workers, see if you like them and give them a job if at the end if you do, a win win situation on their part. Or alternatively if you need a couple of weeks filing done, get one of the jobless in to sort it out and them part ways saying that they are just not suitable, filing problem solved along the way.

So what did I say to this job centre person who is after all only doing her job. I said yes of course! These are hard times and it seems I am willing to do a little for free, although it maybe more fool me in the end.