Hello all after some of your wisdom/advice

Got a new H&S admin job for a small company on an industrial estate to get much needed experience.

Already have the NCRQ  certificate part 1 Nebosh unit 3 ,iosh man safety,PTLLS etc.

wondering is it worth just building up experience in the role and put studying on hold or asking for part time to get  the full NCRQ dip done on days off by signing up to NCRQ unit 2 cert.

role was part time H&S admin but agreed to do full time in helping with other admin etc not H&S related so question is would it be worth while going part time to get most of NCRQ done while gaining the work experience .

job is a temp role agency work umbrella paye with possibility company will take on after the 12 weeks or renew agency contract, not had the best experance with agencys to be honest 1 day notice etc.

its min wage but dont mind  hopefully will be worth it for experience as i have struggled to even  get voluntary work experience and apparently according to some agency's i am to old for apprentice work.

reason i ask is i been out of work for a while now so dont want to get to end of current role and do the whole job searching again with job center messing me about.

i was finding it hard to get a role with out H&S experience i was applying to about 30 jobs a day. and at the time the local jobcentres best advice is to not apply to any H&S roles and dumb down my cv  take off quals and apply for bartender,sales, warehouse jobs and do a 2 week job center course how to act in interviews etc and how to apply for jobs otherwise they sanction you i told them to do it thankfully i got this job the next week.

Will

We often get an awful lot of 'can't get into the sector' type posts on here, you're doing exactly what should be done to gather experience whilst working full time.

More power to you and congratulations

Just to add a +1, experience is the key. Any work relating to H&S is better than no work. Studying alonside a jobis difficult, however is only temporary, it will pay of ten fold later into your career

Another thing to do which is worth while is have a look at some job adverts online for roles you want to be doing in a few years time, very often they will have a recruiters name and number on the bottom. Give them a call and explain your situation, sometimes they hear of jobs from their Clients who would not list them with the recruiters because of cost. Also as you are doing something unusual by calling them and asking for advice, they may well fish around and see if there are any trainee positions available. 

Not a guarentee but it's a lot better than trying to deal with the job centre. 

not saying all job center staff are same

my normal adviser was fair and even said to me we can tell the people who want to work from those that dont but you will have to do same courses etc as them as its standard rules

example being a 2 week job skills course teaching level 1 IT and maths etc even thou i had the higher level of both.

i think the problem is they are under pressure from ther boss/government to get people 

off benefits anyway possible.

i get that ther is a lot of people who dont want to work 

but ther is also a lot of people that do and find it hard getting a role.

the part that irritated me was i spent about £5000 on qualifications mainly H&S to better career and put my time in etc.

for one of the other staff advisers who i had to see 1 week 

say to me you wont get a warehouse job or sales jobs with them qualifications 

so you will have to remove them from cv 

which i then refused 

they then say your not making yourself employable so will be sanctioned.