[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

You are right Ellen,I am with you here.
I know Students who are signed up to Agencies,just for temporary work even really but some have never had a place to go to yet, some also have to keep pushing to see if there is anything about.

I also have spoken to a good number of people who in order to hold their jobs have had to see their hours cut from 37+ to 30 hours a week, meaning a good loss of income for them.

More and more people are now in what is more like part time work rather than the good full time hours they had before.

There are always companies culling staff and other companies taking on a few more people, likely never enough to start eating into the unemployed though, it is also likely a bit easier to get into a job if you have only just recently been made unemployed,once you have been out of work for a while, it then gets more and more difficult.

You don't have to be a mathematician however to work out that with an estimated just under 0.5 million vacancies in the Country and around 2.6 million unemployed that those figures are not divisible to help cut unemployment.You cannot get 2.6 million into half a million,no matter how you try.

It is really good if someone can lose a job, then quickly succeed in finding another quickly,good luck to them,that is brilliant,likely achieved by a lot of skill and also a bit of luck too.
However my own thoughts would be they are more likely a minority rather than a majority of people looking for and/or needing work.

There are lots of other factors as to getting a job, the interview process, how to properly prepare a CV too, these are the areas the Govt needs to get right into to help people find work.
Overall though, an absolutely massive amount of investment in creating jobs needs to take place and also measures to ensure those jobs are lasting,long time positions.

The future doesn't look good on all fronts and I am personally just thankful that I will have 2 careers I could go into after Uni, I will really consider myself one of the lucky ones and not generalise that all should be able to do what I will have been fortunate to have been able to.

In all seriousness Joey: if you truly believe that it is up to the Government to show people how to handle interviews and how to prepare CV's ... then I do fear for the future of our country. How much pampering do the job seekers want?

[Ellen]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

In all seriousness Joey: if you truly believe that it is up to the Government to show people how to handle interviews and how to prepare CV's ... then I do fear for the future of our country. How much pampering do the job seekers want?

Its not pampering, its helping people to make the best of themselves when looking for work.
If it helps people back into the work force then it is a positive.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Ellen

Its not pampering, its helping people to make the best of themselves when looking for work.
If it helps people back into the work force then it is a positive.

Absolutely. I agree again.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Ellen

Its not pampering, its helping people to make the best of themselves when looking for work.
If it helps people back into the work force then it is a positive.

Which is already available in all manner of forms and resources: Given the amount of resources already available (see my previous post) - I'd say that it amounts to a certain degree of some wanting mollycoddled and having someone else do all the ground work for them.

I am also referring to the blocks that some job seekers place on being able to being offered employment: some i do feel limit their choices due to their own lack of flexibility - but use that as excuses for not finding work.

If I had decided I was only going to seek employment in a company that I did not need to use my car to reach the workplace , that was within walking distance of my home, that I would only work Monday to Friday and ony between the hours of 10am to 4pm, would not consider any other hours, would not consider anything less that £17 per hour and wanted flexi-time, provided me with health benefits etc - I'm pretty sure I'd have found it damned hard to be re-employed so quickly.

This is the angle I am coming from.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Which is already available in all manner of forms and resources: Given the amount of resources already available (see my previous post) - I'd say that it amounts to a certain degree of some wanting mollycoddled and having someone else do all the ground work for them.

I am also referring to the blocks that some job seekers place on being able to being offered employment: some i do feel limit their choices due to their own lack of flexibility - but use that as excuses for not finding work.

If I had decided I was only going to seek employment in a company that I did not need to use my car to reach the workplace , that was within walking distance of my home, that I would only work Monday to Friday and ony between the hours of 10am to 4pm, would not consider any other hours, would not consider anything less that £17 per hour and wanted flexi-time, provided me with health benefits etc - I'm pretty sure I'd have found it damned hard to be re-employed so quickly.

This is the angle I am coming from.

I agree you need to be flexibe. Otherwise you may not find the job you're looking for. I'm lucky i work close to home, but some people have to travel a long way.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I agree you need to be flexibe. Otherwise you may not find the job you're looking for. I'm lucky i work close to home, but some people have to travel a long way.

Some do indeed Vanessa - when I hear about folk who have very long journeys each way to their workplace: it really does put 45 min journeys into perspective as being a mere blip.