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• Kirsty Liddle: Offered a Job on Friday, Rejected on Saturday

  

  Photograph: MARTTILA / Rex Features MARTTILAEven celebrating a job offer should be off the table for jobseekers: it can always be taken away. Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thanks, Do Not Hire Me

  

  Annapaola Paparo started her Skype interview excited and motivated. Now, her attitude is more “Dear prospective boss, unfortunately you have not been... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• New to How to Be Jobless? Start Here:

  Welcome to How to Be Jobless.Sorry about the mess.If you’ve never been here before, take a look at the About page, or watch the video for a general idea of... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Happens When You Tell a Few Thousand Strangers That You Got a Job?

  This:So chuffed that @howtobejobless got a dream journo job! Her blog brought laughter and empathy to media job hunters everywhere – well done! Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Marianna Manson: “Perhaps It’s Time to Get Over Myself and Realise This Economy...

  

  Welcome back to the Vent Corner, where the jobless, the aspiring and the “floundering” can get it all off their chests. This week, Marianna Manson deals with... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Perfect Response to a Rejection Letter

  

  There is some comfort in being rejected because you’re not good enough. The job you wanted, so tantalising and rent-paying, was never in reach. You may as well... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Interns: “£300 for a Job Reference? Stick It on the Bill.”

  

  If there were an award for scummiest business practice, refusing to pay interns would get many a vote. But Jan Mortier, who until a year ago ran a “junior... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Post Gap-year Diary: Trying to Get Back onto the Ladder

  

  We all know it’s hard to get on the career ladder, but surely it’s easier to get back on? Erin Cardiff explains the tribulations of getting back into... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Rioja Journals: Introducing DYLAN YATES (and His Sidekick, Marti)

  

  How to Be Jobless welcomes Dylan Yates to the #Pyjarmy. He’s a jobless writer with a Spanish housemate, a few bottles of cheap red wine and a discussion point.... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Escaping Costa: When Will Our Careers Actually Start?

  

  In his race to the start line, our resident overqualified barista Josh Adcock looks ahead: when and how will he eventually escape the daily grind of Costa... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Why Working at Costa is My Own Fault

  

  Our resident overqualified barista, Josh Adcock, is back! And today he’s going to tell us why working at Costa is his own damn fault. IDIOT. Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Darryl from The Office US: How NOT to End an Interview

  

  We all want to leave interviewers with an strong impression, even a flourish. Here’s The Office US’s Darryl Philbin’s attempt, to remind you to do that with... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• David Mitchell and Robert Webb Sum up Work Experience in the Media

  “I just wanted to say, thanks so much for giving me this opportunity.” “No problemo, we all got a leg up somewhere along the line…so you’ll basically be dividin... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Interview Tip: Shut up About the Sun [VIDEO]

  Sometimes an interviewer just won’t like you. In these cases, nothing you do will ever impress them. Hopefully, it won’t be as bad as Andy’s experience, who... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Aicha Marhfour: “Don’t Call Me ‘aspiring'”

  This week in The Vent Corner, Australian journalist Aicha Marhfour talks about the words people use to make her lack of employment seem “noble”.Don’t call me... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Youth Unemployment is High – Kids Today Eh, Michael Wilshaw? – The Guardian

  

  The Ofsted chief seems to think he can get away with blaming ‘lackadaisical’ jobless young people for their own predicament ‘Sir Michael is concerned that so... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Emails from the Jobless Trenches

  

  Joblessness has somewhat fallen off the news agenda, have you noticed? That’s what happens when things don’t really improve. After a while, they can’t keep goin... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Josh Adcock: What It’s Like Working at Costa

  

  Josh Adcock is back with another peep into the world of the overqualified graduate working at Costa, as per Esther McVey’s totally non-patronising... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Get a Job at Costa, by Josh Adcock

  

  Josh Adcock is an obedient chap, so when Esther McVey told him and other graduates to “get a job at Costa“, he obliged. So Josh is now one of the overqualified... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Q&A with Gerri Spiers, the “Interview Me Now!” Sandwich Board Lady

  

  Picture: Jeremy SelwynJobseeker Gerri Spiers is working on becoming the next “billboard hire” – but she’s using a sandwich board. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION