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Unemployable

Describing a person who is unable to find a job, especially one that suits his/her skill set. A person may be unemployable due to personal reasons (for example, he may interview poorly or he may be subject to racial or age discrimination). However, the term may also refer to a person whose skill set has become obsolete. Unemployable persons often must retrain to be able to find jobs in the future, though doing so is often very difficult.

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"When this happens, we will not simply have an army of the unemployed, we will have an army of the unemployable - a huge threat to social cohesion."

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Goodbye." While he skips off to enjoy a life of carefree courting, pizza call-outs and trendy bachelor pads, she struggles with being the unemployable single mum of two angry teenagers with no money and few friends.

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