The Australian: Finding work quite a job in the long term

Date published : 16  August  2010 

At the coalface, there's far more to the unemployment story than a simple 0.2 per cent rise in the national jobless rate.

Campbelltown resident Cindy Henson has been out of work for 91 weeks despite completing TAFE courses in bookkeeping, office skills and accounting.

Ms Henson, 32, spends two hours twice a week at employment service provider Mission Australia searching for work, but is becoming frustrated by her predicament.

"Nothing is coming off for me at this stage. I've been frantically looking. I'd pretty much do anything," she tells The Australian.

"A lot of the younger people, 17, 18, they're the ones that seem to be getting the jobs."

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