My wife has had a lot of trouble finding work. It took her 3 months to find something. Too many eastern europeans / polish taking all the jobs.
She has good qualifications in Philippines and some good references but was knocked back by all the supermarket chains, the small retailers in the town centre also didnt want to employ her. She even applied for a job in Mcdonalds and they didnt even get back to her!
Luckily she managed to find a job as a kitchen assistant in a care home but she applied for around 20 jobs and out of those 20 she was only given 1 interview and that was Tescos and even they didnt employ her for a simple cashier job! Her english is perfect and she is more than capable but they gave some excuse.
One of my friends observed a coach full of polish immigrants that had only just arrived into the UK parked up in Sainsburys. There was a long Q of polish immigrants at the customer services desk all taking an application form and completing it - all of them asking for a job. Their english was poor but they still applied for the job.
Its down to all the eastern europeans. Even in my office there are many polish working there and in all the care homes there are polish. Thats why there are less jobs available now.
