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Get support to find a job
From Department of Social Protection
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From Department of Social Protection
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At Intreo, we know that searching for your first job or looking for a new job can be challenging. Intreo is here to help you!
We know that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the working lives of thousands of people in Ireland. We offer a wide range of supports to help you on your journey to employment:
Whether you are searching for your very first job, a person with many years of work experience or returning to the job market after a long time, Intreo can help.
Intreo (the Irish Public Employment Services) is a single point of contact for all employment and income supports and services.
Consider your skills, experience, ambition and interests and what you want to achieve. Your local Intreo Centre can help with advice and practical support, and help you take the first steps.
Do you need help preparing your CV? You might not have prepared one for a long time and do not know where to start.
What about a cover letter to a potential employer?
Do you have your CV ready and need help in searching for a job?
And how about preparing for an upcoming interview?
To find out more, visit our dedicated webpage on the JobsIreland website.
Are you considering a training course, or thinking about going back to education?
You can continue to receive certain social welfare payments while undertaking training and education programmes; from short term courses to part-time and full-time education.
There is a wide range of apprenticeships available these days, from Insurance degrees to becoming an electrician. These structured training programmes are an ideal way to earn as you learn, develop your career and gain a qualification.
Intreo can help you access a range of work experience programmes. You can gain valuable experience to help you move to a new job.
The Work Placement Experience Programme (WPEP) is a 6-month, 30 hour per week voluntary work experience programme. The programme is for jobseekers that are currently in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment and who have been unemployed for six months (156 days) or more.
The Community Employment Programme helps long-term jobseekers get back to work by offering part-time and temporary placements in jobs in local communities.
This experience is of value to the community and provides you with real work experience.
Tús (community work placement initiative) is a work placement scheme providing short-term working opportunities for unemployed people.
The Rural Social Scheme provides a supplementary income for farmers and fishermen or women that provide services that benefit rural communities, and are unable to earn an adequate living.
The Voluntary Work Option allows jobseekers to work in the voluntary sector. If you want to do voluntary work and continue to get a jobseeker’s payment, you must apply before starting.
JobsIreland connects people looking for work with potential employers throughout Ireland. It links anyone who is looking for employment, or thinking about changing job or career direction with employers who are advertising vacancies and actively hiring. Find out more at JobsIreland.ie.
JobsPlus is an incentive for employers that encourages and rewards them to employ jobseekers on the Live Register. You might want to share this information with an employer.
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Intreo can support your income while you get your business off the ground. There are other government supports to help you grow and manage your business. To find out more about these supports visit our dedicated webpage.
The Benefit of Work Estimator for jobseekers and people receiving One-Parent Family payments shows how starting work or increasing your work hours could affect your income, leaving most people better off financially.
Many people don’t know that when returning to work, they may qualify for or keep a range of supports such as Jobseeker's Transitional Payment, One-Parent Family Payment, and Working Family Payment (WFP) depending on their income level and family circumstances. For more information visit our dedicated webpage.
If you receive a disability payment, and are starting work or returning to work full-time or part-time after receiving an Illness payment, we have a Benefit of Work Estimator for you.
This shows what benefits you may be able to qualify for or keep when you return to work. To find out more information about these supports visit our dedicated webpage.
If you are unemployed and you are returning to full-time or part-time work, you may be able to keep your medical card. Visit the HSE website for more details.
You can find out more information by contacting your local Intreo Centre.