What is the longest you have been unemployed?

[LeeCallaghan]

The longest for me was about 14 months between 2013 to 2014

9 months. Thatcher's 80s though.

A couple of very short periods - I think 7 weeks is the longest after I was made redundant from one post.

I've never been unemployed. I had a part-time job when I was still at school, then bunked off college to work overtime. I'm 43, and have now paid off my mortgage, working part-time again and just topping up my pension. Half my peers from school who stayed on in education and went to university are yet to get on the property ladder

4 months, made redundant in late 2010, really struggled to find another job (many of us in the same boat).
It was such a relief to be employed again !

Never, part time of various sorts from 14 all the way through Uni then got a job lined up before I left. Consider myself lucky.

18 months. Living overseas in a small town with high unemployment. Ended up doing voluntary work just to put an up to date reference on my cv.

I pretty much had what would have been called a nervous breakdown in the old days because I had been out of work for so long. I ended up on anti-depressants.

Ten days

6 months after returning from overseas. I was in my mid 20s.... looking back not too bad at all and I should’ve tried to enjoy it more, but I was stressed and nervous at the time as no job lined up :/

2 years before I got married
I didn't want a job and was quite happy getting the dole
I was quite naive really
After 2 years of claiming dole they put you on supplementary benefit
The only thing I had to do was sign on once a fortnight

13 months and still without a job. Trying extra hard now!

None here either.
I had a part time job at University and did full time hours there as soon as I graduated.
Started my “proper” full time job about 2 months after graduating and been full time since with no gaps between jobs (almost 19 years now). Very fortunate I know.

I became a SAHM in June 2015 so since then. Before that I worked through sixth form, job in first week of uni and through all 4 years, job within a week of leaving uni then notice given to start another jon and was there eleven year before I had baby

3.5 months, although I'd been made redundant & had quite a good package so I took my time. That also includes Christmas.

Maybe a few months when I was 15, until I was 16. Employed since 16, now 39.

Other than maternity leave and a period after having DC no 2 in 1992. I've been employed at least part time since I was 17 - I'm now 53.

About a week once I’d finished my PhD as I wanted temp work and the computer said no at the big ones because I didn’t have a formal Word qualification (I’d only just written my thesis and all). Found a smaller firm who placed me next day.

6 months after being made redundant when I was 22

By choice - 12 years - but apart from that I have always been employed.

Im 36 and last week i got my first proper fulltime job. It hasnt been for lack of trying I promise, and I did move country and have to learn a new language and do another degree.

Never have been. From a paper round at 13 to shelf stacking to waiting tables as a teen, working a bar and in a bookies at uni, job straight from uni (unrelated to degree!) and gone from one job to the next - total change of path a few years ago but never had a problem getting a job.

never. I had saturday jobs until uni, then bar jobs and retail until i graduated, then straight into work. i never left a job without having a job since being 14. In nearly 40.

Just over a year

12 weeks after being made redundant, I absolutely hated it!

6 yrs...had to look at my child and requalify myself 😁i never want to stay at home again ever!!!

7 very long years as a sahm, however I've retrained in the last 4 years and had a second interview today for a role in my new field.

Nervous is an understatement!