Phuong has been at home for seven years raising a young family. Now that all of her children are at school, she has recently re-entered the workforce to earn extra income for her family. She has applied for a few jobs, unsuccessfully, but is actively looking for work, including having her name listed with a recruitment company.

Gary is an unemployed person who loses his job at Sanity music store due to more internet downloading

Louisa works for a government business enterprise (GBE) that has just been privatised. The company will retrench many workers and Louisa will lose her job.

Maria finished Year 12 three weeks ago and is taking the year off university (She is not studying) so she can travel later in the year. She is currently looking for work for the next three months to save up for her travels.

Barbara is an accountant and after 10 years with one major accounting firm, she has left to look for work with another accounting firm. She has been looking for work for four weeks.

Kim has been a teacher all her life but in the last year has decided she is sick of kids. She quit her job and is now looking for work as a cabaret singer

Isa works for a well-known shoe-manufacturing business, but due to the company’s inability to compete with cheap imports from China, the business must close and she will be unemployed.

Monique is going through the motions. She applies for 40 jobs a month to ensure she gets unemployment benefits however secretly she would prefer to stay at home and play with her cat

Isabella is a professional lifesaver and during the summer she is always very busy with her work. At present it is winter

Jim Naysium works at the local Fitness Centre for 2 hours per week without pay in order to gain some experience. He is not looking for full time work