Been out of work for a while? You're finished!

[Cirrus]

"A field experiment conducted by Northeastern University showed that a recently unemployed applicant with no industry experience was actually more likely to be called for job interview than someone with directly applicable experience who had been out of work for more than six months"

"If you happen to lose your job at an especially unfavourable time and then fail to find a new position before the dreaded six month mark, your prospects diminish damatically from that point on - regardless of how qualified you may be"

The Rise of Robots, Martin Ford

[FatLazyContractor]

Give us the link ...

Sounds more like mental diarrhea of a jobless chunt

[seanraaron]

"A field experiment conducted by Northeastern University showed that a recently unemployed applicant with no industry experience was actually more likely to be called for job interview than someone with directly applicable experience who had been out of work for more than six months"

"If you happen to lose your job at an especially unfavourable time and then fail to find a new position before the dreaded six month mark, your prospects diminish damatically from that point on - regardless of how qualified you may be"

The Rise of Robots, Martin Ford

I can believe it, it's like a curse since you're out of work so long there must be something wrong with you. Helps with the mounting feelings of low self-worth due to long-term unemployment, but you know the jobless are just "lazy bastards" so who cares?

[Cirrus]

FTFY

Give us the link ...

Sounds more like mental diarrhoea of a jobless chunt who can't use Google to get the right spelling

It's a book - Business Book of the Year 2015 FT/McKinsey

[DimPrawn]

This is definately true. A couple of months is okay, but anything longer than that and you can halve your chances as each month goes by.

The "reason" for big gaps that seems to wash with clients is that you decided to look after the children for a while whilst your partner worked. This means you weren't looking for work, so in the client's mind your not a failure in the marketplace.

[Cirrus]

but you know the jobless are just "lazy bastards" so who cares?

Absolutely! I'm a lazy bastard.

But then again I was a lazy bastard when I was working. Another quote:

"A report from Urban Institute found that long term unemployed are not appreciably different from other workers, suggesting becoming one of the long term unemployed may largely be a matter of bad luck"

[Troll]

Wasn't it Richard Cranium who was our very own LTU?

[WTFH]

Headline designed to sell book.


A bit like Ben Carson "running for president", but using the funding as a book tour.

[seanraaron]

This is definately true. A couple of months is okay, but anything longer than that and you can halve your chances as each month goes by.

I think it depends on how the hunt goes. If you have nothing to apply for then you can tell yourself the market is bad (which it probably is), but if you get contacted about jobs and get no response to CVs and attend multiple interviews that gets dispiriting pretty quickly.

My longest spate of joblessness was the first six months I was in the UK and it was awful, but I had elected to move here and mis-timed my arrival during a downturn in the IT market. Had I been made redundant and that followed it would have been a lot worse.

[alreadypacked]

Absolutely! I'm a lazy bastard.

But then again I was a lazy bastard when I was working. Another quote:

"A report from Urban Institute found that long term unemployed are not appreciably different from other workers, suggesting becoming one of the long term unemployed may largely be a matter of bad luck"

If the market everywhere is pants, I go to Dublin, I always get a job there, usually over the phone. Work a few months while the market picks up where I want to work. I also leave my last job, as current job, until I find another role.