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Unemployable and can't get a job.

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Amiunemployable · 15/04/2025 08:43

I can't get a job.

I currently work ten hours a week as a midday supervisor. Prior to this, at the same school I was a TA for a year.

I have recently graduated with a BA and will graduate in August with an MA.

Work history:

Customer service for six years at two different companies.

Then time out for raising kids and studying for the BA. This was 2020 - 2024. I then started at the school early 2024.

I can't stay in my current role, it's not enough hours and we're sinking financially.

I have been applying for jobs since February. Customer service/admin type roles. Full time. Both remote and onsite jobs. I've applied for almost 40 jobs and not heard back from a single one.

I had also considered applying for TA roles at other schools, still not quite enough financially but better than what I'm on now but the problem is that I had several months off sick in current role (TA/midday) and I'm concerned that it would prevent me getting another TA role as would come up on a reference from current job.

I just don't know what to do.

I feel unemployable.

OP posts:
Talltreesbythelake · 15/04/2025 08:48

Sign up with a teaching agency. They are desperate for TAs who know the role. You will definitely be employable and you will have a wider number of Headteachers to use for a reference. Keep going, you can do this!

CaptainMyCaptain · 15/04/2025 08:47

You're not unemployable at all and you only 'think' a period of time off sick will stop you getting a job. Just keep applying.

Trickabrick · 15/04/2025 08:46

Are you putting your BA and MA on your cv? Because it could be you’re being perceived as over-qualified or likely to be looking for a short-term role until you get something in the field you studied in.