Job Hunting Tips For Teenagers and Young Adults

Youth face the challenge

Web sites recruitment video

Interesting selection of links and views

job-search-support.com
lets support the Youth now and look after U.K 's future

Youth U employment-isnt it time to act. and provide support??

AN UNEMPLOYED gardener took his own life after he became worn down by Job Centre visits.

Martin Hadfield, 20, is said to have refused benefits while he desperately searched for work since he was made redundant in April last year. But despite applying for around 40 jobs in the space of three months, he failed to get any response for almost every application. The rejections have been blamed on employers choosing less-skilled and cheaper workers and Martin increasingly felt disillusioned about his future.Just 24 hours after a Job Centre meeting, he was found by his flatmate hanged in their home in Tottington, Greater Manchester. An inquest today confirmed the cause of his death as suicide.His stepfather Peter O’Gorman said today: “Martin was the kind of guy who was industrious but too proud to tell us if anything was wrong. On the day he died his mum gave him some money for the bus home and instead he walked the 5 miles home and saved it for something important. That was the kind of boy he was, hardworking and with so much potential.”His mother Annie, a former prison officer, put Martin’s death down to “a tragic moment of madness” as he was not able to discuss his problems.

Martin left school with GCSEs and achieved NVQ qualifications as well as working as a car valet and a landscape gardener. He found it difficult to adjust to life without working and earning his own money.

Peter said: “Martin was heartbroken by it and heartbroken every time he walked passed the gardens he used to tend and see them in disrepair. He took such pride in his work. He wasn’t fussy, he would have taken anything just to be working and on the employment ladder. But I have heard from so many people that the job centre experience is very demoralising. The bureaucracy is ridiculous.”

Peter added: “Martin never claimed any money or benefits in his life as parents we could help him out until he got on his feet. He got nothing off the government and was proud not to. He hated the idea of going to the job centre because he had heard what so many other his age had said. Many people go in with a sense of self-worth – they really do want a job – but come out feeling demoralised and putdown.”

I am looking at how a chat option and tel number can be provided to support the Unemployed. Would you support me??

Labour market statistics. The real figures in U.K

Introduction of Universal Credit

The Claimant Count estimates do not yet include claimants of Universal Credit. ONS is working with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to include jobseeker Universal Credit claims in the Claimant Count statistics as soon as possible.

This is a key statement when looking at the figures featured
Note that this is based on the Job Seeker Allowance figures not Universal Credit figures

Labour Market figures 2014

The latest figures look good but there is a concern remaining about the 0 hrs contract.
The use of the Food Banks continue to remain high. Take note also that JSA is the highlighted benefit and not Universal Credit. Thus figures may be higher if those on Universal Credit are included

Growth in GDP and Food Banks at the same time

The mystery of the diversity of our economy is that as the growth occurs so does the demand on the Food Banks.The figures speak for themselves as does the need. So if you are wondering if you are alone in the need you are not.
A politically interesting time