Helping a friend hunt a job?
Hey, figured I’d look for tips before doing anything, and this subreddit seems applicable.
I have a friend who I’ll call Jess. Female, over 40, 3 kids (2 teens 1 toddler). She went through a breakup and she’s having trouble finding a job.
While she does have some help, myself included, she doesn’t want to drag down our finances and things are getting tight. She might not be able to make rent next month.
She’s been looking for a job for the past couple of months, and lately has just been applying everywhere. The thing is, she’s in that bracket where you’re too old for jobs to want you over a kid they can give the bare minimum to and too young for jobs to want you over a senior they can give the bare minimum to, and with the job market as it is she can’t get the experience she needs to get the job to get the experience.
Any tips or tricks I can give her? From what I’ve heard, her schedule is mostly open during the times kids would be at school, with alternating availability for weekends and the rest of some week days. She also has gone to college and got a degree in psychology, and worked at a small Amazon reseller before that business closed.
Worst case scenario I can set up a Go Fund Me or something and hope for the best, but I’d rather not air her problems like that, plus she’d probably be against it.