Last month marked an entire year since my first “My Week in Joblessness” post on GoThinkBig. That means since I started publicly complaining about the UK job market, the earth has had time to travel more than 585 million miles … Continue reading
I have decided to try my hand at translation. The two languages are, grammatically, almost identical. I shall translate from Labour leader Ed Miliband’s English to my native tongue, plain English. I’m not qualified so there may be some debate … Continue reading
Impossible standards have, I’m sure, plagued every generation. Women have always had Hollywood and the Virgin Mary to make them feel inadequate, and men have always had an increasingly complex “man-up” culture compelling them to hide their emotions and die … Continue reading
Jobseekers! Graduates! Recent procurers of positions! Lend me your ears. I’ll give them back, I promise. Please, come on, sit down, I have to tell you something really really important and I don’t want to have to take your ears … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I gave an optimistic run-down of how to deal with snarky commenters, with advice like “it’s not personal”, which is true. But that was easy for me to say, because that was before I got trolled. Messages … Continue reading
Someone once told me, “politics is the management of hatred”. Now I know, so is writing for a web audience. This week, Alan Rusbridger handed the Guardian’s features supplement, G2, over to the ten trainees. A spread online and in the Saturday paper … Continue reading
If there’s one thing you learn writing for the Guardian, it’s what people think. Oh, people just LOVE to tell you what they think. When you write an article for the Guardian website, part of the job is to pull on your hazmat … Continue reading
I know it’s tempting to toy with the fantasy that your government cares about you. I’m here to pop that bubble with the sharp corner of a Tory memo, leaked yesterday, advising on how to get around the tiresome business … Continue reading
“Dear How to Be Jobless, do you have any tips on landing a job?” It’s amazing that anyone would ask me this. My name is, after all, How to Be Jobless. If you’re going to ask for tips on anything … Continue reading
The grad scheme. The last hurdle between you and concrete employment. You’ve done… Stage one: all the education Getting the bare bones of your CV takes about the same time as a prison stretch for manslaughter. Except good behaviour has … Continue reading
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