I’ve been looking for a full time job in Birmingham, England for just under a month now, in total I’ve roughly applied for 150-180 jobs online. I’ve only gotten 2 interview so far. One of them wasn’t even full time but I went to it anyway and the other I’m still waiting for an answer on. I’m 19 years old and I have just under a year of experience working at kfc as a FOH team member. I am now trying to find a role as a barista, waiter or bartender but I’m getting no luck, is this normal?

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I am right there with you. I have been looking for a new job for 7 months and have applied to over 300 jobs. Hang in there and keep applying. The job market is really difficult right now.

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Wow 7 months.

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Yea it’s never been so hard to find a job. I’ve been looking for 6 months. I’ve applied to hundreds of job and the 2 I got interviewed and hired for Ghosted me after telling me I’m hired and they’ll send over paper work. Idk what’s going on

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Seems like somehow we’re all in the same boat. Really difficult for so many people to land gigs.

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I don't know if that's normal for England, but that wouldn't be unusual in the US these days. It's hard to find a job or even to just hear back from somewhere. All anyone can do is hang in and keep at it, but it's very frustrating.

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