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Pick of the Week: Get Help Finding a Job
Copyright: Hal Morrell-Samuel
This week, Hal heads to Windmill Hill Community Centre to talk about jobs.
Unemployment can be tough. It’s not just financial poverty, the aspect of unemployment usually focused on. It can manifest in other ways, like a lack of confidence, faith and motivation to move forward with your life, often leading to depression and isolation. It’s this aspect of unemployment that I have dealt with personally, and while I can only speak from my own experience, I think the problem is larger and more widespread than most people realise.
Thankfully, there are others in Bristol who feel the same, and have stepped in to help. Every Tuesday afternoon, Learning Partnership West provides a free drop-in in Bedminster for anyone currently out of work, education and training, between the ages of 16-19.
You’ll be offered guidance and help in finding your feet, with access to the internet and advice to help you write your CV, send applications or just to plan the next stage of your life. Perhaps most important of all, it’s a chance to find support, face-to-face, and engage with a group of people who are going through similar experiences. It’s this kind of community that can make all the difference. The NEET drop-in in Bedminster is a great place to find the help you need to take the next step.
Head to Go Places Do Things if you’d like to get in touch and find out more
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About the author
Hal Morrell-Samuel
Hal is a copywriter at Rife magazine developing content for the Go Places Places Do Things website. A sometime music-maker and (ostensibly) a trained sound engineer, he realised that days and nights spent cooped up in a hermetically-sealed, soundproofed coffin recording Santana cover bands was not the future he had envisaged. Putting his recording knowledge to one-side momentarily before quickly forgetting most of it, he has taken his first tentative steps into the world of writing and journalism; who can say where the path will lead. Quite often to Lockleaze.
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