10 months, 3 weeks ago
Overcoming long-term unemployment by getting physically and mentally fit to join the workforce
When mother of two Tracy Jobe started looking for a job after four years out of the workforce, she didn't think fitness classes would be part of the deal. "But now we're all getting in amongst it and it makes you really aware that to be work fit, it's not just in your mind, you have to be body fit as well." "But you can't skill up someone who's not feeling like they're in that space and isn't ready." "Or three, which we find the most pressing with long-term unemployment, is that there's trauma and there's shame getting in the way." "But they're all on the pathway to the next step which could even be something like getting a driver's licence."