I am a fairly articulate and intelligent person...

[i-need-a-martini]

...but boy I reckon I would have serious trouble finding 2 jobs to apply for EVERY day.

So how the heck is someone young, inexperienced, poorly educated, mildly intellectually incapacitated, ill, busy with family committments, old, dispirited, depressed, demotivated - need i go on? - going to maintain 2 applications day after day after day after day?

Seriously unrealistic and unfair.

[channys_mum]

I have to agree especially in areas that don't have a lot of businesses

[cherry*135]

I agree. In my area of Australia there are about 9000 unemployed. The 2nd highest youth unemployed in NSW.


635 jobs on SEEK today in this location. A lot of those jobs are for medical professionals, engineers, software engineers, electrical engineers, control system engineers, project engineers, industrial manager, lawyer......plumber...

16 job vacancies for office workers.

[nevynreally]

The old way didn't work either, not in small towns for someone without a license.

Politicans (all of them) live in a bubble where everything is possible, the odds stacked against you mean nothing.

And I'd be happy with drug testing for the dole as a requirement.

[the_bob_delusion]

I just think people would just apply for every thing whether they're even remotely qualified or suitable for the job. 

[boris1gary]

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@**what_would_bob_do** wrote:

I just think people would just apply for every thing whether they're even remotely qualified or suitable for the job. 

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yes that's exactly what business groups are saying. It's an ill thought out, probably not thought about at all really - just an attack on the unemployed and a convenient way of palming off this mobs job destroying actions so far - its punishment for people out of work, plainly speaking.   

[nevynreally]

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@**what_would_bob_do** wrote:

I just think people would just apply for every thing whether they're even remotely qualified or suitable for the job. 

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Yeah, just fake it because there isn't anything around they could get due to lack of drivers license, other qualifications. But it has always been this way to an extent, just much more expected now. So same old.

[cherry*135]

Yes, they would bob, which will annoy the employers advertising a vacancy.

I am not sure if this will remain the same, but the jobseekers on the dole had to phone up x amount of businesses and ask if there are any jobs going. Again, the businesses are going to get heaps of calls, basically wasting there time

[boris1gary]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/industry-concerned-about-coalitions-40-job-applications...

Industry concerned about Coalition's 40-job-applications-a month plan

Business groups concerned they will be deluged by poorly targeted applications from young unemployed

[cherry*135]

Yes, they will be deluged by unemployed dole seekers, who are doing what the Govt forces them to do.