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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