The term “unemployed” carries with it negative connotations of idleness, laziness,and an inability to work. This is not true for the majority of “unemployed” people that are actively looking for work and sets people up with a poor mindset from the moment ‘unemployment’ begins. Ask yourself “what skills, experiences, ideas do I have! If there are no jobs available, what job, idea, or innovation can you come up with? Don’t be surprised by the creative ideas you can come up with. Government and its people; don’t concentrate on their unemployed status, concentrate on their employability status. Hail the Employable!

How you can help
Changing your social networking status to “employable”
Spread TheEmployable movement!
Expect more and ask more from the organisations that we have helped fund
Stimulate ideas and think about what you have always wanted to do!
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2. What do you expect when you go to the Job Centre, verses what you actually get?

When I lost my job and became “employable” again, someone wisely said to me, “Don’t expect too much from the job centre”. Fast forward this to my second signing on day. I arrived at 10.14am and left at 10.20am. The only words the “dole officer” offered were “sign here”. Thankfully I had a positive mindset. However imagine, I was already feeling low, unwanted and I had not been able to find work for months. Or, imagine that I had worked for one company for twenty years, I was made redundant, and I needed support.

Support is not just a computerised psychometric test, where you find out you would be good in a job “working with people”. Or a career advisor, who offers no advice. Support, in person and kind, should be the minimum you should expect. After all, this is where you go, to find a job, not to help create a cycle of a negative mindset. After all, this is place where the majority of the ‘employable’  have previously help fund through their taxes whilst working. This is the place where your employability should be pushed the most!

Point 2 is simply; Job Centres and Careers Advisory services, we should expect the most, not the minimum. Reform, and revise your priorities. If your government does not fund your Bodies enough to make this happen, expect more from them to make this happen. After all it would be the minimum you would expect! We are all employable, each one of us! Hail TheEmployable!!

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Point 3. Expect more than the minimum! Each Business should have a Redundancy policy.

If the worst happens, and redundancy happens or is happening, expect that the duty of care your Employer gives, is as much as they can give! Not the minimum!

Businesses…if you have a ‘Green’ policy and carry this in such esteem, if you have a policy on spending thousands on outsourced recruitment and HR, if you are about to take all the high flyer’s Executives on a weekend trip, please, have common courtesy…have a Company Redundancy policy. Treat your staff, who are leaving with care, give them support and most of all, show them you value them more than they expect. After all, one day it might be you.
We are all employable, each one of us! Hail TheEmployable!!

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Point number 4: Government, if you are going to increase tuition fees, if you expect students to be 50k in debt after University, then it is your responsibility to invest and encourage Graduate work placements, Graduate work programmes and most importantly encourage Graduates to become the thinkers, doers, creators and innovators of the future!

But Graduates also need to take responsibility. You have spent the last 3-4 years hopefully creating, thinking and innovating. Don’t lose this passion! How can you create your own job, your own future and your own business start up!

Government, you can’t say to students, “University is an investment in your future”, but then have no responsibility in investing in them after this point. But at the same time, Graduates, you should not expect that a degree should guarantee you a job….

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Hail the Employable! Please comment below and come up with any ideas that you feel should be part of our Manifesto.

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