Unemployable
adjective
Someone who cannot be employed because they lack the skills, qualifications, or health to be able to do a job.
After years of battling alcoholism, he has become unemployable.
Often appears as...
- considered unemployable
- become unemployable
adjective
Someone who cannot be employed because they lack the skills, qualifications, or health to be able to do a job.
After years of battling alcoholism, he has become unemployable.
Often appears as...
- considered unemployable
- become unemployable
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'unemployable' often implies a lasting problem that prevents someone from getting a job.
His erratic behavior has rendered him unemployable in the industry.
Pro Tip 2/3Stigma Awareness
Using 'unemployable' can carry a stigma, so be mindful of the sensitivity when discussing someone's job prospects.
They stopped inviting him to job fairs, effectively branding him unemployable.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
'Unemployable' can vary in meaning depending on the job market or industry context.
With the tech industry boom, manual laborers found themselves increasingly unemployable.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'unemployable' often implies a lasting problem that prevents someone from getting a job.
His erratic behavior has rendered him unemployable in the industry.
Pro Tip 2/3Stigma Awareness
Using 'unemployable' can carry a stigma, so be mindful of the sensitivity when discussing someone's job prospects.
They stopped inviting him to job fairs, effectively branding him unemployable.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
'Unemployable' can vary in meaning depending on the job market or industry context.
With the tech industry boom, manual laborers found themselves increasingly unemployable.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'unemployable' often implies a lasting problem that prevents someone from getting a job.
His erratic behavior has rendered him unemployable in the industry.
Pro Tip 2/3Stigma Awareness
Using 'unemployable' can carry a stigma, so be mindful of the sensitivity when discussing someone's job prospects.
They stopped inviting him to job fairs, effectively branding him unemployable.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
'Unemployable' can vary in meaning depending on the job market or industry context.
With the tech industry boom, manual laborers found themselves increasingly unemployable.
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3 stories of local...
create a business that produced skincare products from honey okay might be obvious to some of you it wasn't to me it's the basis of growing a form of social innovation that has real potential she hired seemingly unemployable men and
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Will automation take...
and bringing them into the present. Despite their strong backs and good characters, many of them would lack the basic literacy and numeracy skills to do all but the most mundane jobs. Many of them would be unemployable.
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Training Critical...
employment that's a low bar the consequence is that having trained for employment we have ended up with unemployed in unemployable graduates that's the reality we have to face we
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3 stories of local...
create a business that produced skincare products from honey okay might be obvious to some of you it wasn't to me it's the basis of growing a form of social innovation that has real potential she hired seemingly unemployable men and
Video examples
Will automation take...
and bringing them into the present. Despite their strong backs and good characters, many of them would lack the basic literacy and numeracy skills to do all but the most mundane jobs. Many of them would be unemployable.
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Training Critical...
employment that's a low bar the consequence is that having trained for employment we have ended up with unemployed in unemployable graduates that's the reality we have to face we
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James Marsh
British Director
For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.
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Erwin McManus
American Author
If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.
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Helen Garner
Australian Novelist
There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it's wonderful to be read. It's a really exciting and happy thing to be read.
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Susan Hill
English Author
I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
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Greg Egan
Australian Scientist
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
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Subramanian Swamy
Indian Politician
India's educated youth is skill-deficient, risk averse in attitude, and largely unemployable in the cutting-edge manufacturing sector.
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Alex Kapranos
Scottish Musician
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Gyles Brandreth
British Actor
There's nothing so unemployable as a man in his 50s who's no longer on the winning side.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
American Novelist
I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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Barry Unsworth
British Writer
I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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James Marsh
British Director
For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.
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Erwin McManus
American Author
If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.
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Helen Garner
Australian Novelist
There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it's wonderful to be read. It's a really exciting and happy thing to be read.
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Susan Hill
English Author
I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
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Greg Egan
Australian Scientist
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
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Subramanian Swamy
Indian Politician
India's educated youth is skill-deficient, risk averse in attitude, and largely unemployable in the cutting-edge manufacturing sector.
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Alex Kapranos
Scottish Musician
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Gyles Brandreth
British Actor
There's nothing so unemployable as a man in his 50s who's no longer on the winning side.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
American Novelist
I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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Barry Unsworth
British Writer
I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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