So I was talking to a friend yesterday, who's in the same position as me, and I asked her how the job search was going. She was not a happy bunny and rightly so. She'd been into her local shopping centre and there was a sales job advertised in one of the shops, so she went and got an application form. Went back the day after and they said the position had been filled. Now surely when interviews are taking place they shouldn't be giving out more application forms, or should have at least let her know that they were interviewing the day she picked up the application form?! Do they really think we have nothing better to do than waste our time filling in application forms when the position is no longer available. We're not doing this for s***s and giggles!!!
I decided to do a little research. Find out some statistics - according to the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (HECSU), which was reported in the DailyMail back in June (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192349/Graduate-unemployment-set-double-soaring-numbers-struggle-work-amid-recession.html), one in 10 graduates (40,000) will still be unemployed in 6 months - that's double last years figures.
So where does that leave us? 6 months down the line still signing on? Hopefully next month things will start to look up - any returning students will leave the jobs that they might have had over the summer, opening up opportunities for all of us. So...we'll see!!!
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
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