Is UK Unemployment Enraging You?

montrano

I am in this situation too. I took a job in spain for a few months and came back in October 2008.
I have been unemployed since then. Same story, never hear back from employers, and agencies are even worse.
I'm too old or qualified for entry level jobs and not quite experienced enough for the next level.

Dont know about everyone else, but the job boards locally to me have the same jobs week after week, either they have a high staff turnover or theyre waiting for the perfect employees.

I am hopefully going self employed in the very near future. My local council offers up to £1000 start up grant. This also makes me eligible for tax credits, which cover my jsa money till i start making reasonable money.

I'm due to start an OU degree in October too, which is also partially funded as im unemployed. I've had to pay £180 towards it, but its a bit better than the several thousand it would cost at a full time uni.

jamiemusson

same boat here...really struggling, I can't even claim 'cus my partner earns, but we're in debt so never have ANY disposable income.

RossDave10

If you really WANT a job, there are plenty going!

You sound like nearly all people on the dole,

"theres nothing going im so angry"

Yeah right, where I live, there are new cleaning jobs nearly everyday, but I bet none of them apply for any of them 'cos its "cleaning", any job is better then no job, even if some shop isnt advertising, ask anyway, not all advertise,

I'm sorry but you can always try HARDER!!

RossDave10

montrano wrote: »

I am in this situation too. I took a job in spain for a few months and came back in October 2008.
I have been unemployed since then. Same story, never hear back from employers, and agencies are even worse.
I'm too old or qualified for entry level jobs and not quite experienced enough for the next level.

Dont know about everyone else, but the job boards locally to me have the same jobs week after week, either they have a high staff turnover or theyre waiting for the perfect employees.

I am hopefully going self employed in the very near future. My local council offers up to £1000 start up grant. This also makes me eligible for tax credits, which cover my jsa money till i start making reasonable money.

I'm due to start an OU degree in October too, which is also partially funded as im unemployed. I've had to pay £180 towards it, but its a bit better than the several thousand it would cost at a full time uni.

What!! Too qualified for entry level jobs?!

ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS?

How can you be too qualified so you CANT do the job?!

Surely the job will be EASIER?! if your "over" qualified?!

Also, entry level jobs can be hard work, not as "easy" as people make out, brushing it off as "oh im too qualified"

IDIOT

CannotFindHelp

dpassmore wrote: »

I sympathise with Truegho, it seems that others don't.

As do I. I've recently been unemployed for 7 months. Just got a job last week. That I can track, I've got 24 "pending" job applications that have either not passed their deadline or whom I've not heard from in the past 3 weeks.

Sometimes it can feel like a joke that nobody is getting back to you. It is the most demoralizing thing. And people who are unemployed never seem to understand the hardship of job seeking on the national welfare.

All I can say is keep striving and keep believing, despite how lonely and !!!!ing useless this job seeking process can seem, my job application that I got was applied to by 140 people (according to the employer). They invited 20 of those to interview - just 20 - and then hired just 15. Those kind of figures make you think there's something wrong with the world.

fedupnow

RossDave10 wrote: »

If you really WANT a job, there are plenty going!

You sound like nearly all people on the dole,

"theres nothing going im so angry"

Yeah right, where I live, there are new cleaning jobs nearly everyday, but I bet none of them apply for any of them 'cos its "cleaning", any job is better then no job, even if some shop isnt advertising, ask anyway, not all advertise,

I'm sorry but you can always try HARDER!!

You are so wrong.

I think unemployment is set to get much higher when the proposed cuts kick in.

I feel sorry for the recent graduates ... we make them pay and then rob them of the opportunity to earn to repay.

Generally, employers will not take on highly quaified cleaners as they suspect they will leave as soon as a better job comes along.

I have never claimed and hopefully will never have to. But, none of us are going to be immune ... all our jobs are at risk.

Good luck to everybody looking for work.

CannotFindHelp

RossDave10 wrote: »

What!! Too qualified for entry level jobs?!

ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS?

How can you be too qualified so you CANT do the job?!

Surely the job will be EASIER?! if your "over" qualified?!

Also, entry level jobs can be hard work, not as "easy" as people make out, brushing it off as "oh im too qualified"

IDIOT

Sorry, first of all, your attitude is a DISGRACE

What I think the poster meant by over qualified, is that employers will look at your CV and see that you have either been working too long or at too high of a standard for them to reasonably expect you to give a year or two's dedication to the post.

Remember, when an employer is hiring, he is looking for stability as well as reliability and there is always a chance that Person X will be hired over Person Y, accept the job, but leave 3 weeks later because they've gotten a "real" job....and the only way to avoid that is to either take employments out of your CV, which creates gaps, or lie about your employment and say you worked elsewhere - which is the worst thing you can do. You can't always tailor a CV for every single job and every single employer.

Employers have to be strict too. I remember when I was 15 I got a job working for Virgin Megastores - now you have to be 18 or something to work for these places, no exceptions - and there's no chance for a teenager to earn some pocket money at a Saturday job, they're all taken by the college students

Kate78

RossDave10 wrote: »

If you really WANT a job, there are plenty going!

You sound like nearly all people on the dole,

"theres nothing going im so angry"

Yeah right, where I live, there are new cleaning jobs nearly everyday, but I bet none of them apply for any of them 'cos its "cleaning", any job is better then no job, even if some shop isnt advertising, ask anyway, not all advertise,

I'm sorry but you can always try HARDER!!

Being "overqualified" clearly not an issue for you then? :rotfl:

RossDave10

Kate78 wrote: »

Being "overqualified" clearly not an issue for you then? :rotfl:

Being "overqualified" means I CAN'T do basic jobs, is the most stupid thing i've ever heard!!

Problem for me?

I have 11 Gcses A-c, three A levels, 1 year into my Bsc Computing with Business course, worked as an office administrator, sales executive, now going to be a systems clerk, all by choice, I drive, car paid for outright by myself, I rent a flat privately, and am completely debt free. Not bad for an 18 year old?

CannotFindHelp

RossDave10 wrote: »

I have 11 Gcses A-c, three A levels, 1 year into my Bsc Computing with Business course, worked as an office administrator, sales executive, now going to be a systems clerk, all by choice, I drive, car paid for outright by myself, I rent a flat privately, and am completely debt free. Not bad for an 18 year old?

Then be thankful, but also realise in the real world...where most of us live...there is a lot of barriers that stop people from getting the education, results or chances that you got. And sometimes, when someone has worked at a certain level for many years, they want to sustain that level and cannot actually afford for reasons of personal, financial or professional to take a basic wage job