Do another course and go into more debt and the same result of no experience and no job. I just could not do it again and just gave up and signed onto doing volunteer work for welfare. stress and anxiety issues of being chronically unemployed. I did therapy and that lead no where and still unemployed. Nothing changes ever, just endless bad luck.

I am still long term unemployed stuck going no where in life and unemployable. That is it I am unemployable, long term unemployed for so long and doing higher education made me unemployable because I never did any relevant work experience. I can not even get those retail and fast food jobs. Not everyone can get a job because they want a job.

Where is my job? Still no job yet and I doubt a job will ever come my way. Still waiting for a job to come my way and I hammer out emails every day and with headers saying: I need a job now! Please pick me for this job. Is it my lucky day? Am I the one for this job? Please give me a chance!

No response, just crickets chirping. Just bad luck. Job search is a lottery.

Not getting any reply, neither good or bad, was also the most frustrating thing for me. You never know what's really going on, and it unnerves you easily. I really wish more companies would at least give you some reply, especially if they placed an ad for the job in the first place.

Brexit is certainly not helping you right now, either. I wish I could help you more. But apart from pointing you to some online platforms like freelancer to try and make money online for a change there ain't too much I can do for you now, at least nothing that comes to my mind. Just try to not loose hope. It's tough, but loosing hope will just make it even worse.

It was very tough for me, too. I had bought an apartment just before I lost the job before my first long unemployment period. I got so demotivated by my unemployment I took years to finish furnishing it, and took forever to motivate myself to clean the place up. If I hadn't had great neighbors and supportive parents at the time, I'm not sure what I would have done during that period. Getting a very shitty neighbor later on made me sell the place I intended to live with a wife  and raise my children. I didn't even have a girlfriend back then, even. I was just planning way ahead, but first my joblessness and then my new neighbor certainly killed that dream.

This is a big mistake. HR will notice very easily that you made a copy and paste and don't care about that job.

You have to read what the job is about, what is the company and them look at your qualifications and write an introduction letter showing why you are a good fit for it.

Both friends you described just seems like people that chose a career that didn't offer value to the market so no one would want to pay for their qualifications.

In brazil all public service (that you apply for exam) are for life unless you commit a crime. Only public service that are fired is the ones appointed by politicians and the like, these change after every term when politicians don't win the election and get replaced.,

And @OP

Sorry, but you living in a country with 4% unemployment rate, and claiming to have sent over 1000 applications with not a single answer (even if negative) is very hard to believe.

If you were in a place with 30% unemployment rate I could believe more.

Yes I did. For 7-8 months I couldn't get a job having graduated with a Masters. Now after 5 years in the same position, I've moved on but as you say it's very tough. I have been searching for 4 months trending on a different career path now but still it is really tough however I have realized that the only way is to push through that phase as much as you can. You'd be surprised by how attitude can be the difference between getting a job or not. Once I became more confident with my approach I got to final stages of interviews with big companies. I got rejected but took a lot out of it.

I'll tell you my background story, where I'm from originally, there are little to no opportunities without having contacts. I traveled to London to search for opportunities. No one would sponsor me so I had to make something out of nothing. In the end I got an opportunity and now I just got my residency. Since then I want to do something more in line with my passions and literally been grinding my ass off constantly. I still get a rough time and my experience isn't where I want it to be, but the only way is to keep going 110% till you get a break.

Try not to have any excuses. I know bad luck accounts a lot but the more you look at it that way the more it weighs you down. And even if you gotta force it, a positive attitude is vital. If you feel your town has no opportunities, move! Try something different, that's my advice. A fresh start is always good. All the best and keep going! And if you need to talk just message me.

Yes try to focus on more career options. If you do it online you gotta stand out. Networking is also very important, you gotta get yourself meeting as many people as you can.  

I chose a field that added no value to the economy and got older and became unemployable. Retail/fast food jobs I mainly send for the same low level jobs and do not mention degree on my resume. Higher education can make people unemployable. A low intelligent person life me is best suited for factory/cleaning/retail and fast food jobs. I tried to get into the military a couple of times but I was rejected on medical grounds. I was so desperate I wanted to serve in the Middle East but they said no way are we accepting someone with anxiety and other issues. I must be unemployable.

You must have perfect employment history and no gaps in resume to continue being employable. Life is so much stress and pressure.

HR Specialist here with several years of recruiting experience. Let me try to give you some advise.

Never evoke the feeling of desparation. Never beg. Never propose working for free or something like that. Never make the recruiter feel guilty for not picking you. The recruiter will set up an interview if the job description matches your skills. It doesn't matter how desperate you are, you must never let that show. The recruiter will want to hire you because you fit the job, not because of pity.

You already realised yourself that finding a job is a matter of timing. So never take any declination personal - it just wasn't the right time. Never give up, just keep on checking career pages and keep applying to those jobs that you have exceled in.

As a matter of fact, it is definitely true that you are in a downward spiral if you are long term unemployed. This is not an illusion, this is fact. However (again), this is not your fault, so you don't have to blame yourself. Just keep applying. It will work out one day.

The recruiter will come to the conclusion that no one else gave you work before so surely something must be wrong with you. This is a very prominent bias and is very hard to not fall to. Many people fall to it, especially if they don't know about it. Whenever we see something strange about a person we don't know, we always tend to assume the easiest explanation possible, which is in your case that something must be wrong with you and therefore nobody wants to work with you. It's a simple prejudice building process that many people can't shake off. However, this is not your fault, you must be stronger than that.

Easier said than done, right? Still, keep on applying and be confident. It will work out. Turn that desparation into desire. You might have no major experience but you are very eager to learn, you will work hard and you will want to prove yourself worthy. These are things that you can mention in your introduction letter.

By the way, the letter is overrated anyway - what matters most are your skills. Highlight what you've got and what you can do. That's the interesting part for a recruiter. And always stay confident and never give up. I believe in you.

I have no social network besides VGChartz. I am not on Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter, etc. I just could not be bothered with it and do not know anyone that would be useful in me finding employment so I did not sign up for any of those social media sites.