It's been a few weeks now, and I've been keeping off the job market, when a job position fell into my lap from a mate who turned it down.

It was an IT job, something I'm definitely qualified for, however upon enquiring about the position I was informed that I did not have the relevant experience, now coincidently I have been pushing to try and gain some voluntary experience *work for free* at my current job with the IT person who is desperate for help. Logic dictates that it would be something I'd be given, costs the company nothing, gains something, but the management have stated I'm not allowed.


I leave this post with the question, how do you gain experience if you're denied voluntary opportunities, and can't acquire work because you do not have the experience? Where do you go from that point forward? ...

I seen an advert in a job board stating there's a need for 500,000 IT staff over the next five years in the UK and it was for apprenticeships, what happened to the graduates in the UK qualified who can't acquire the work because no ones willing to help them get into employment?

I'm hitting the three week point of the bettering my family and we're stuck still with the eternal progressive job hunt. I've had one interview for a small business who wanted to mock me rather than interview me, they paid 2.5k more per week, but expected myself to work 47 hours every week, one day off. There interview procedure was standing in the store, 5 minutes long and them questioning myself about Ebay. It was a complete and total waste. I've applied for a few payroll jobs which are related to the 4 weeks training I was given by SageUK, so hopefully there will some opportunities within them.

I'm finding that it really is dismal that I've applied for over 200 jobs, and been offered a single interview. The economy is terrible, the graduate market is near none existent, and the hope for a brighter future seems like it's a far way off.

"When all else is lost, the future still remains."

Christian Nevell Bovee (1820-1904) American author y lawyer.