Catch 22

What does one do when career wise you are not going anywhere? What if you are exactly where you were a year ago and nothing has changed?
Nowadays it is really hard to find a job that is actually what you want, what you studied for, what you are passionate about. Instead you are either stuck in a mediocre job that you hate or you are unemployed.

It is catch 22! They want you to have on the job experience but how do you get experience if no one gives you a job?
According to recent data 881,000 young people aged 16-24 were unemployed in December 2013 to February 2014.

Apparently the reasons for this are four:
Financial Crisis: Graduate recruiters have recruited less because of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
Public sector cuts: The cuts to the public sector have also affected young people.
Lack of qualifications: A report by Centre links youth unemployment and poor results in GCSE English and Maths.
Lack of experience: Recruiters becoming more risk averse and looking to recruit more experienced older staff.

Regardless of the cause how do you tackle this problem?
Clearly by creating more job opportunities for young people and NOT I repeat NOT offering them internships which they do for free or apprenticeships which they do for coins. 

What annoys me personally when applying for jobs is the fact that employers don’t provide you with any feedback on your job application instead they send you a generic e-mail in which they don’t even bother to address you by name. And yet you are expected to have done your research on the company and tailor your CV and cover letter to fit the job description.


Let’s brainstorm here for a second, if a candidate is applying for a job that they really want and have been rejected what is the thing to do here? Probably continue looking for jobs, but what if this keeps happening and you don’t know what you are doing wrong? Well, I am sorry but you would never know because “Due to the high volume of applicants we cannot provide individual feedback”. 
How come employers don’t understand that feedback from them is much more valuable and useful to job seekers than a review by the JobCentre?

If you are looking to excel within a certain sphere and you keep being rejected but you don’t know what you are doing wrong, what do you do? I am seriously asking here, what do you do?

How long does a New Year’s resolution last?

It’s a New Year, the time for new beginnings, changes and maybe resolutions. Every year we tend to promise something to ourselves that we don’t usually keep. We say things like “Next year I am going to exercise more or eat healthily or will open that pastry shop that I have been dreaming about”. Newsflash it won’t happen. Most people have broken their promises by now due to different reasons.
The sooner we accept that the faster we can move to the things that we will actually accomplish this year such as spending less time with our families and more on the laptop. More time on Facebook, Twitter, etc. than having real live conversations with the people next to us.

What saddens me is that people prefer virtual contact more and more instead of face to face one. Like it wasn't happening a lot before but now with technology developing everyday it feels like we are going to lose sense of reality. The predictions for 2014 are that the Internet will have a greater reach than the television and most telephone calls will be made via the Internet.

With these tech advancements what can we expect? I would like to focus on the positive side such as having access to the greatest tool on Earth- Information. It is everywhere, you can access it from your pocket,  it’s amazing. Now, calm down. Yes, indeed having access to information everywhere you go is fantastic but as I mentioned in my previous post it makes you use your brain less and less.
However, let’s hope that with the new education reform at least the future generations will have the chance to survive this tech chaos and will speak to their parents not only via Facebook but also in person.

Happy New Year folks!