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Is there any agency out there who will actually apply for jobs on my behalf?

NAS79234

Hello

Writing on behalf of my partner who is so low right now he is feeling suicidal. He's been and out of jobs for years and says people never understand him and he has constantly had comments of him being rude and not getting on with others. For this reason, he has been looking for remote jobs in either administration or data annotation and analysis but is having no responses.

He literally feels he cannot work with others again as he's had so many bad experiences but is desperate for a job and feels so resentful and angry of others who can get on in work. 

Does anyone know of any agencies who can actually find and apply for him suitable jobs? He's seeing Seetec who have just told him to amend his linked in profile, Send4 who helped him with a cover letter and nothing else and scope who helped him with his cv but nothing else. 

He is feeling so desperate and I feel upset for him too so sorry for the rant.

Of note, he is awaiting an autism diagnosis (he feels he has aspergers). 

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  • What are his core skills? This should help us with some suggestions.

    Has he spoken with a therapist at all? If you can find one who specialises in autism then there are lots they can do to help your partner.

    NAS79234 said:
    says people never understand him and he has constantly had comments of him being rude and not getting on with others.

    This one is fairly simple to address but requires effort from him.

    He needs to understand the rules of social behaviour and adapt his interactions to fit these rules. It actually isn't difficult but I note that a lot of people here have trouble changing their ways of behaving so give up trying.

    It will be a mix of scripting of responses and masking his behaviours which he probably does to a big extent anyway. It will require considerable effort but given his results so far it can't be worse than he has found it.

    A good book to understand and practice this is:

    The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships - Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism - Temple Grandin, Sean Barron (2005)
    ISBN: 9781941765388

    I'm afraid most of the jobs he is looking for are going to be made obsolete by AI so he may need to think outside the box to stay in that field.

    Does he have special interests that could be expanded into a job?

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  • What are his core skills? This should help us with some suggestions.

    Has he spoken with a therapist at all? If you can find one who specialises in autism then there are lots they can do to help your partner.

    NAS79234 said:
    says people never understand him and he has constantly had comments of him being rude and not getting on with others.

    This one is fairly simple to address but requires effort from him.

    He needs to understand the rules of social behaviour and adapt his interactions to fit these rules. It actually isn't difficult but I note that a lot of people here have trouble changing their ways of behaving so give up trying.

    It will be a mix of scripting of responses and masking his behaviours which he probably does to a big extent anyway. It will require considerable effort but given his results so far it can't be worse than he has found it.

    A good book to understand and practice this is:

    The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships - Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism - Temple Grandin, Sean Barron (2005)
    ISBN: 9781941765388

    I'm afraid most of the jobs he is looking for are going to be made obsolete by AI so he may need to think outside the box to stay in that field.

    Does he have special interests that could be expanded into a job?

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