Work is becoming hard to find : (

[uberlube]

This is the first recession i have seen in my working life and its really starting to suck. I never had a hard time finding work before and i consider myself quite skilled and experienced.... but pickings are so slim that I applied to for a delivery job last week and was turned down because they felt i am "overqualified". On top of all this Canada's unemployment rate has gone up and alot more people are using services such as EI making it more difficult for people like me to apply. Even though I qualified for the service under their own guidelines, they are still trying to turn me away. This whole situation is starting to get very frustrating and i felt like ranting a bit. Are any of you sharing my frustrations?

[wirepuller134]

Our area is an exception, it's still business as usual. But it's all food industry. Sorry to hear your having trouble hope it pans out.

[fatality_uk]

Sorry to hear your in this situation. We will come out of the recession , but not for the next 9-12 months at least.

You have to "tailor" your CV/application/resume when applying for jobs that you are over qualified for. A 30 minute rework of a CV can take you from being a dept. heas controlling a $2,000,000 budget, to an IT worker with wide responsibilities. try not to lie, but for roles such as delivery job, your CV has to reflect a more general status

[uberlube]

thnx. i hope so too.

[uberlube]

Ya your prolly right about the resume. I just feel guilty about doing stuff like that.

[froggyswamp]

It's not really tough as in tough, the people in developed countries are used to call "disaster" scenarios where the unemployment rate goes up like 4%. What I call a "real" disaster is countries like those from Africa. Trough the 1920-1940 USA's "great" depression was a joke compared to what is the "normal" state in other countries. All over the world there (almost) always has been a different way among people to perceive the truth and whether it sucks a lot or doesn't, it's down to everyone's personal past and present experience.

[fatality_uk]

Ya your prolly right about the resume. I just feel guilty about doing stuff like that.

I know what you mean. I have had a couple of "pangs" about doing that on the odd occasion where I needed a temp job to cover me for a period. But at the end of the day, I don't like state benefits, I want to pay my way in the world and I have to keep the roof over my families head and put bread on the table.

[Sef]

Ya your prolly right about the resume. I just feel guilty about doing stuff like that.

It's fine to leave things off your resume. It is not fine to lie on your resume. Stick with the former and all will be ok.

[MikeTheC]

@OP:

Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing here. I've been out of work since October, and I don't see the situation getting any better, to be honest.

The thing is that I think most people have this expectation that "It will just get better in time" but I don't hold to that believe simply because there's too many things going wrong that aren't even being looked at, etc. I really can't go to much further with this because it becomes fairly political fairly quickly, but just suffice to say a lot of things need to be sorted out and fixed, and until and unless they are, this problem isn't going to go away. If anything, it will probably get worse.

[mamamia88]

guess i'm lucky to still be in college