Like me, many of you probably know what it"s like to be stuck in a rut. Maybe you"ve been made redundant in this present financial crisis and can"t find new employment. If you go for the jobs in your old sector and you're not having much luck, then it"s time to change -- to list the things that you"re good at. The list may include skills which you"ve only ever used in your spare time or you may have had an earlier career which you would like to get back into again. This can actually be pretty difficult because that career may have changed with the times -- with newer technology or extra skills for instance.
This is where new training can help. I don"t mean full time training courses (unless they"re only for a few weeks.) but part time distance learning with tutor support. You can then still continue in your present job or be claiming unemployment benefit and not be penalised. People with disabilities can get special help. although in my area most employers won"t consider them unless they are a large company and they have to fill their quotas. There isn"t actually a law anymore to force them to do that -- Mrs Thatcher in her wisdom got rid of that back in the eighties.
Next problem, once you do some training then you won"t have any (recent) experience and don"t get considered what can you do?
One solution could be freelance work if it"s the kind of industry where you can do that. Problem is freelance work can be sporadic so you would need another means of income, especially in the beginning. -- more on this later:
