英國研究生求職十年未果 變身人肉廣告求工作
A desperate jobseeker who applied for 15,000 jobs with no success in the past ten years has resorted to advertising himself by wearing a 'hire me' sandwich board.
Robin Norton, from Birmingham, has a Masters degree in history and several NVQs(National Vocational Qualification) but has been overlooked by an endless slew of employers.
He has now taken drastic action, spending an entire day wearing a sign reading 'hire me please' and walking up and down the M5 slip-road at Bromsgrove junction in Worcestershire.
Mr Norton said: 'I have applied for around 25 jobs a week for the past ten years without getting anywhere. Sometimes I have applied for as many as 50 in one week. It is never-ending. I barely even get a response either, even just an email to say they had received my application but have not been accepted. I am looking for any full-time work - I’m not picky.'
Mr Norton, who worked for the Royal Mail for seven years, was a self-employed footcare technician until 2002 when his business went under.
Since then he has had odd-jobs including cleaning, gardening and building work, but craves the stability of full-time employment.
He said: 'Things were bad before but have become worse since the recession. Now I don’t think there is any chance of me getting work. It is partly down to the recession but also my age. Companies don’t want to hire anybody in their 40s. All the jobs go to the young up-and-coming jobseekers. I’ve got the qualifications but I can’t get the work. As soon as they see how old you are, they don’t want to know. It’s against the law to be ageist but in the real world, my world here today, it’s still here and it’s wrong.'
Despite all his efforts, Mr Norton has had no job offers - and only a handful of interviews - and he said hitting rock-bottom convinced him to try a new tactic.
滬江英語快訊:近日,英國媒體報(bào)道,一名不惑之年的歷史研究生,求職十年,投出1500份簡歷,仍然求職未果。于是他掛出一塊“請雇用我”的牌子,站在高速公路上,做起了人肉廣告。據(jù)悉,他至今沒有找到工作,只接到了少數(shù)面試通知。他自己對此的解釋是:很少有公司會雇傭40歲左右的求職者,而且隨著金融危機(jī)的影響不斷擴(kuò)散,求職之路愈發(fā)艱難。不過,即使打出了“人肉廣告”,這位“高材生”仍然乏人問津??梢?,“賣身求職”只能搏眼球,而真正對找工作有幫助的,還是要懂得求職面試的那些門道。外企面試英語,為你揭開求職的神秘面紗>>