For the past week I have been in the Job Centre Plus, West Street, introducing them to Jobs4everyone. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the Jobcentre looking for a job, and the only up to date information that I had on it was all from the media.

So that was exactly what I was expecting on my visit, people without hope and feeling very down in the present climate of unemployment in the world today.  At first glance, as a snapshot photo, they are definitely right. People don’t seem to be too happy with the state of things. But then as I started to speak to them I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with what I found.

There was a large presence of people that I spoke to that had something in common, they still had their hope!  Even though you never saw them smile, there was something there, something that kept their spirits high. The hope that something has to change, along with the hope that their perfect job is out there waiting for them.

I guess you could liken it to playing the lottery. They play the job hunter game in the hope of winning a job at the end of the day.  But more often than not they don’t win anything, in some cases not remembering to check their tickets, but they still have that have that hope that the next time they play, they may win big.

Hope is a great asset to have when things don’t go quite the way you planned. Hope is the one thing that will give you the strength to carry on towards your goal.

Getting a job in the 21^st Century is like being at war with unemployment, and in that there comes a time when all you have left is hope, hope that you will reach a victory of employment.