NEW YORK (Reuters) – support groups of unemployed are getting creative, as the unemployed rate remains stubbornly high, try approaches from using the weight of the watch Ngere-style accountability to encourage people to work for free.
Support network has previously appeared after extensive redundancies. But with almost one in 10 Americans now work, they become more widespread and accepted said career Adviser Alison Doyle.
"Is the stigma becoming unemployed, was there in the past not so widespread now," said Doyle.
Group August which hosts networking events in the former manufacturing hub in Rochester, New York, holds members responsible for sticking to their job search goals.
"We're like the weight of the watch Ngere for job seekers," said Tracey Aiello, one of the group organisers. "Each week people say what they want to do in order to seek work and at the next meeting, we ask them if they did, and if not why not."
David Allen is an operator of a securities company. But after giving an inspirational speech at a Conference on how to find work, he started New York Group "No lack of work" in his spare time as a Community service to job seekers.
"For most people, the worst thing about unemployment feeling like you are of no use to anybody," said Allen, who recommends volunteering at for-profits organizations.
In a weak economy, he said, many struggling small businesses need money to rent, even as work immensely. Work can help job seekers make free contacts, learn new skills and get hired when hiring freezes the lift, he said.
Other presses new approaches. Last summer, Stacy Kendall New Bern, North Carolina, started a skills database to help people in her support group find part-time work.
For example, an unemployed social worker may Earn income teaching needle work to others, an office worker might just get paid for doing yard work. And skills is also be exchanged within the group, she said.
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Kimberly Brady, a 40-year-old ex-Citigroup employee who has been unemployed since late 2008 and is a member of the "No lack of work" barter his skills. A tech-support professionals themselves helps her computer and on the other hand, she teaches his friend, a Chinese national, business English for free.
Bradys work as an English tutor has reignited her love for literature, which she studied at the University. She hope now, she could over time become an English teacher, college-level.
But still Brady said longer her unemployment goods, the harder it gets to stay motivated.
"I have days when I go to bed at night, and I think, ' did something I did today? Will lead to something? ?? But generally speaking to others going through the same emotional stress helps, "she said.
A study by Princeton economics Professor Alan Krueger found job seekers reduce considerably time spent job-hunting as time goes by. Group new horizons in Rochester are trying to combat this problem with a program that is specifically geared to the long-term unemployed.
Formed after a mass layoff 2002 at Xerox Corp., new horizons has grown from a handful of former colleagues to 1200 members from all industries. Xerox hollowed half its workforce in Rochester-area-to 6,800 in 2010 from 13,950 in 1990--as it should be adapted to a changing global marketplace.
In September started Organizer Pete Chatfield a program for members of work for more than a year, starts an Alcoholics Anonymous-style buddy-system in order to encourage job seekers to motivate each other. 23 in the program has seven found jobs, he said.
"You have been out of work 12-plus months, otherwise you would be in the program, so you probably think, you know it all, because you been through almost all this stuff before," he said. "But the chances are, you have shortchanged yourself".
(Editing by Mark judgments and Eric beech)
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