Employment

[Markysparky2008]

any ideas how I could get myself into employment after being out of work for for 4 years?

[Lola]

What are you wanting to achieve with employment?

Need money?

Something to do?

Creative outlet?

Exposure to / interaction with people?

[Markysparky2008]

Thank you for your response. I would say all three and thats the way I see it because I have bumped into people from school who dropped out and their doing better than me. It just dosent seem fair.

[Pegasus]

Originally Posted by Markysparky2008

any ideas how I could get myself into employment after being out of work for for 4 years?

temp agency

[Tobias Zimpel]

Originally Posted by Markysparky2008

any ideas how I could get myself into employment after being out of work for for 4 years?

How about self employment?

[PennyD]

Do you have any clarity on an ultimate career you would like to head towards?

If yes is there any thing you need to do first or a baby step you can take towards this? Like a first job you can take to get you on the ladder?

What do you need to do, or experience do you need to have, to get that first step job?

Or do you just want to be employed in anything?

If yes do you have previous job experience in anything? what does your CV look like? What would be the easiest path to take?

There are some very good book in most library's that can show you how to write a CV that is not work experience based but sells your skills instead.

I have used such a CV twice to get my foot in a brand new careers where I had Zero work experience but I showed how my skill set match the new position.

[Lola]

Temping sounds like a good starting point to me, too. That way you can try on a variety of work environments to see if anything is particularly enticing.