How Do You Help?

As far as locating work itself for your friends and family, it sounds like you're doing all that can be expected. Keep it up. Since they are your friends and family, keeping their spirits up can help both you and them. So doing things with them that are easy on their budget can go along way. Have a barbecue at your house. Certainly don't flaunt that you have a job. You want to keep them your friends. Be considerate of their circumstance. Expect some emotional venting. We all need to occasionally complain against the gods of misfortune. But there is no simple single thing that you can do to help your friends but to be there for them.

"Networking" using local and online support groups is a great way to locate your next job. I'd suggest joining sites like

http://www.linkedin.com

if they haven't done so already. Local groups are also very useful if you can find one in your area.

Even if you have a job, cultivating existing and new contacts using these resources now can save you a lot of grief IF you need to change jobs in the future. You may even become the link that directly helps someone get back to work. Best wishes!

Have they registered themselves with Placement Agencies for Engineering Jobs?.I think they can offer some jobs. There are few who advertise in CR4 also.

Suresh Sharma.

This post is not meant to hurt any unemployed graduates or engineers. Is there any assurance that a particular degree guarantees immediate and speculative career?

If the person had pursued a degree -was it trend driven or self decided or based on advice from others.

There is one thing dignity of labour that in developed countries no job is rated inferior and people readily do all jobs.

It seems the educated looks for jobs involving no hardships and build life without basement.

It is about situational adaptability and one should strive to get engaged, without attachment to lavish expectations.

This readiness and free from hesitations and accepting every thing as good jobs can divert people from being idle.

If you don't get what you aspire ,manage with what is available and start the life journey.

The loud selling vendor on the roads and his positive attitude, a lesson to one and all.

Papen is a local group in our area that helps unemployed and under employed professionals. Sort of a job trading fair thats allows you access to all types of professionals in your area. They are national and may be a good source for your local techies who are looking for work.

I know a few people like that as well. I have found them jobs with fair pay and reasonable hours but they wouldn't take them. It was work below their educational standards. "I am an engineer. I don't do manual labor". Was the most common reason given as the guy mows his yard or spends a 10 hour day working on his house waiting for his next welfare/unemployment check to show up.

I try to find work for others whenever I can but most still don't feel they should be doing physical work or actual work that involves actually getting out and being useful. There seems to be a unfounded and very self centered pride with many higher level educated people I have dealt with. Aparantly its better to sit home and slowly go in debt than get out and work where your skills may just get you noticed by someone that can place you some where that you can feel happy about.

I own my own business and my work is often labor intensive even though my educational back ground and knowledge may be more suited to an office or management job now. I may be my only employee and the pay is not always great but I at least have a job and have work.

Now you start getting into some of the paradoxes of our social safety net. When the temporary unemployment checks are significantly higher than minimum wage, why would a well schooled individual take a manual labor job. Work harder to get paid less would entice only a fool. While this paradox typically fades when the unemployment disappears, it sometimes trains the individual to happily live with less money while experiencing less stress. If any individual chooses to leave the rat race knowing the good and the bad consequences, then I call that an informed adult choice. Besides, it's only a distorted view of the Puritan ethic that all people must work at the peak of their potential all the time.

Speaking hypothetically and a little hyperbolically, somebody who previously had a six figure income taking a minimum wage job immediately after loosing their job might look like somebody who cannot manage money well. This can preclude obtaining a job in their field in the future.

While it is good that you offer to help them with work outside of their studied field, it is their right to refuse. If they are contented with the life this choice gives them support them in this decision. Now offer your job prospect to somebody who does need it.

I'd suggest to them to post their CVs in jobsites such as HotJobs, Monster, and other headhunter sites, and also directly to company's sites which allow posting of CVs.

it's the way we look for jobs here in the UAE, and it's the way we get discovered by employers, too.

When I was out of work, I went the "job shop" path. I was able to get some good high paying jobs; although temporary and I had to be away from home. My last assignment landed me a permanent job, but I am now retired from the rat race. In today's company down-sizing, engineers are not exempt from job cuts. Companies often cut their higher priced staff to save money. (A big mistake in my opinion). When the economy is in the condition it now is, companies turn to job shops to fill their employment needs. Job shops cost the companies much less than a permanent employee with the added benefit they can be terminated with little or no notice. They don't have to pay benefits to a permanent employee and there is little training required. This could now be a good opportunity for unemployed engineers and others to make big bucks and find a good company. Sometimes we have to make a sacrifice with family, but as long as it's temporary, it all works out for the best.