I'm so fed up, applying to everything with no response!

starsinmycrown

Oh i'm glad you started this thread. I'm in the same boat. the same one that's drifting upstream without a paddle and closer and closer to the weir... Like you, two months unemployed, not many jobs about, and to make things worse too OH has been made redundant, and i have debts that i can't pay too, and i'm paying bills with my CC!

I'm in the annoying position of having good qualifications and a good degree, but my work history is full of menial jobs like shop assistant, waitress, and i've been working with kids for a long while before i went to uni. Its been four years since i've had any recent experience with kids, I'm looked at suspiciously when i go for just basic jobs as it's seen as a stop gap. In truth it is because I'm trying to save money for my masters. Meanwhile, if i go for anything more ambitious, my top salary of £10k is hardly making me look like a high flyer and I've never really had any kind of serious job so I don't have any experience. I went to uni to change my life, but since I left I've ended up in a stream of temporary jobs, wiping tables, wiping !!!!!!...:)

I'm not too proud to do a good days work, but I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea at the moment and it's knocking my confidence. I'm studying with a view to do research, but it's depressing that i'm being turned down for jobs on minimum wage. The job centre said they offered training, and I'd snap their hand off for some kind of secretarial training. I'd love to do a typing course or something, or RSA, but they said i'm "over qualified" and I don't qualify for help. I feel like an idiot just sitting round all day, i've no money to go out and do anything either, and the fact i am in a village with no decent transport hardly helps my cause. It's okay people saying in theory to keep trying, but if people keep telling you "no", you start to have your confidence knocked and getting a job and being successful in it seems an insurmountable prospect. This year i wanted to save some money, get my licence, get back on track with debt, but its ended up a really bad year- half of which ive spent unemployed! Argh!

And to the previous poster, you sound like a really nice person and very intelligent and you sound like you have lots of initiative. I liked you based on your post, so I don't see why you aren't having any luck. I'd give you a job! If i had one... x

starsinmycrown

sillylittlejill wrote: »

I have been unemployed for 4 weeks on friday and have applied for around 30 jobs (haven't been any new ones in the past week!!) and have heard back from 1 to say thanks but no thanks! It is sooo frustrating! I'm lucky though, as my FIL2B works in a supermarket and has got someone in every department to let him know if there are jobs. Apparently they don't hire until the new tax year, so unless a lot of other companies are waiting for then too?

I have a new found love for Jeremy Kyle The friends and families tip is good btw

xxx

Haha! jeremy kyle- it's dickinson's real deal for me....

tgon

Thanks for that starsinmycrown. I'd read or heard somewhere that statistically 90% of JSA claimants have new jobs with 6 months and that there is an average of 50 applications per advertised vacancy. With my 120+ job applications and 4 months into this nightmare I guess I'm statistically favoured for a win quite soon. As far as your job offer is concerned - I'll take it! lol Just before Xmas I asked the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) whether it's legal to advertise spoof jobs for marketing purposes because a lot of agency advertised jobs are picked up by search engines but then don't seem to exist in reality. A complex answer said "no" but its so difficult to pin down or understand that when I consider myself a 100% match for a job, nothing ever happens and trying to chase it up is fruitless!

Perhaps I should rely on all that cash in the attic! lol

eyelinerprincess

chuckley wrote: »

try other avenues...
it is a logn hard slog but you have to keep at it. 2 jobs a day is nothing. you need to try harder.

It's hard when on the job centre there are *counts* three jobs that I have the experience for, which are over 16 hours (currently doing that now and can't afford to move in with partner on that salary).