Unemployment; an issue sadly I am having to deal with along with many others. Unemployment is on the rise we can only hope it gets better soon, but is there really any hope of that? Where are you jobs!? ---------------------------- I search every day for jobs on a number of websites, first looking through all jobs then narrowing my search down to specific areas just in case I missed anything or the website didn't show it for some reason. Despite searching within a 30 mile radius of the city I live near half the time I get the phrase "There are 0 results from your search", especially on the job centre website. The job centre have told me ...  Read the complete review

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE FINE LINE BETWEEN BRAVE & STUPID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When my son was born in late September of last year, I resigned from my job, intending to spend some time with my young family before taking up a fresh career challenge in the New Year. My job was headed in a direction I didn't want to go in, I was bored, disengaged and far from being able to give it my best. In those circumstances, I thought it only fair to myself, my colleagues and the business to make a fresh start somewhere else. Given that I was voluntarily leaving work into the teeth of the worst job market for a generation, some of my ...  Read the complete review

Today is not a good day, I came home to hear that my partner who has been out of work since mid January of this year will soon have his unemployment benefits stopped. He doesn't receive a huge amount as it is but losing this vital income every fortnight is a potential disaster and has me worried about the future. We don't live an extravagant lifestyle by anyone's standards, we eat well and have a comfortable home and like to have days out at weekends occassionally, other than that we don't splurge our hard earned cash or take risks. Now however with only my income to survive on even the smallest little treats and pleasures may have to go, thank god we don't ...  Read the complete review

It is so easy to become so disillusioned with so much when you're unemployed. I've been unemployed for about 9 months now, having finished my Masters last year. CONTEXT OF WRITING: I know most people after finishing a period of study (I went on to do my Masters straight after my Bachelors - so was 7 years studying whilst juggling various part time jobs, of which I had to quit in May last year so I could complete my thesis research overseas), would be relishing the time out, kicking back, doing the liver some serious injustice at the pub and generally enjoying the freedom of not having to study as soon as you get home. My experience ...  Read the complete review

Unemployment is something that everyone dreads but unfortunately it has happened to most of us at some point in life, sometimes through our own fault and other times through the faults of others. So having graduated last year I knew that getting a job was not going to be particularly easy. I had not secured a grad job, but I figured that there was still jobs out there would be interested in an ambitious graduate like myself. I soon came to the harsh reality of life and the current situation started to sink in that there are no jobs available. I had emailed maybe a hundred different firms, mainly accountant ones due to being an ACCA student, and also signed up ...  Read the complete review