Crucial Blow For Job-Seekers

People seeking to get a job in Sheffield have been dealt a crucial blow following an on-going investigation.

With the recent job cuts across the country, the most recent being the loss of 500 jobs at Vodafone, is the time now harder than ever to find a job?

More importantly, how difficult is it for a student to earn and finance themselves? We hit the streets to find out.

Armed with 20 CV's, we went undercover to investigate if we could actually find someone out there willing to employ us.

We went into 25 seperate shops, supermarkets, restaurants and bars to discover who, if anyone, was willing to give us a job.

Our first stop - Marks And Spencer. After being greeted by a friendly lady on the door, we enquired about jobs - "We're not currently taking anyone on", she snapped back in an instant.

After being knocked back a series of times from Footlocker, H+M, WH Smith, Topman and embarrassingly Somerfield of all places, we struck a bit of luck.

Walking into video store Game, we were half expecting a polite 'no chance' when asking "I don't suppose you're looking for any part-timers are you?"

"Yeah we are mate, have you got a CV?", the big chap behind the cash desk replied, before he changed his mind we handed a CV in and made a hasty retreat with a quick parting, "cheers mate, bye!"

The afternoon seemed to go on forever, with time and time again the same response, "No sorry" being thrown at the pair of us. After around 2 hours of trying we gave up.

Of the 20 CV's we had, we managed to hand out a mere, depressing, pathetic... 6

Of those 6 we handed out, we were invited to just the 1 interview... our good old friend, Game.

Either it's true when they say now is the hardest time to find a job, or the guy at Game needed a friend to play his Xbox with.


Story by Jack Nesteruk and Anil Pattni