Young graduates, I feel your pain. I know how much unemployment hurts and I am here to break it down for you. This way, we can all start a support group for a generation that believed they could do whatever they wanted, and is now sitting at home staring at the telly, wondering if they will ever amount to anything.
Here’s what happened: you did what the adults told you to do. You studied and you got into university. You studied and you got your hard-earned degree. After graduation, you applied for jobs – loads of them! You even got some interviews where you got to talk to lovely people who seemed keen on giving you a job. But so far, no such luck. You have no income. You have nothing to do all day. And what’s worse: you miss doing what you did all your life, you miss studying.
I’m on the same emotionally rocky, jobless young persons boat. So here is a stage-by-stage guide of what you, unemployed graduate, are going through right now. And it gets better in the end – kind of.
STAGE 1: RELIEF
STAGE 2: BOREDOM
STAGE 3: DETERMINATION
STAGE 4: BARGAINING
STAGE 5: JEALOUSY
STAGE 6: SERENITY
Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from
Read More @ The 6 Stages Of Youth Unemployment.
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