James Marsh

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.

British Director

Erwin McManus

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.

American Author

Helen Garner

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.

Australian Novelist

Susan Hill

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.

English Author

Greg Egan

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.

Australian Scientist

Subramanian Swamy

India's educated youth is skill-deficient, risk averse in attitude, and largely unemployable in the cutting-edge manufacturing sector.

Indian Politician

Alex Kapranos

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Scottish Musician

Gyles Brandreth

There's nothing so unemployable as a man in his 50s who's no longer on the winning side.

British Actor

Jeffrey Eugenides

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

American Novelist

Barry Unsworth

British Writer

The term 'unemployable' often implies a lasting problem that prevents someone from getting a job.

Negative Connotation

Using 'unemployable' can carry a stigma, so be mindful of the sensitivity when discussing someone's job prospects.

Stigma Awareness

'Unemployable' can vary in meaning depending on the job market or industry context.

Context Specific

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 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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 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