Benefiting from resource centre's one-to-one service
His verdict: Pretty demoralising.
Martin, aged 44, was unemployed for six weeks and with no money in the bank was living on £10 a day.
But the resource centre at Tata helped him move on.
He completed several construction courses and is now working for building firm Per Aarsleff.
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Hide AdHe said: “We had eight months of not knowing if we had a job or not. It was pretty bleak.
“That is first time I’ve signed on since I left school at 16.”
“At one point I had no money in the bank and I was living on £10 a day.
“It’s pretty demoralising.
“I called in to the Tata resource centre every day to see what help and support was available and picked out the training that I needed in order to further my chances of getting another job.
“It’s fantastic – you get such one-to-one service.
“It’s like a friendship.
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Hide Ad“I’m so grateful to have had all the support and training and if I hadn’t done the construction training courses I wouldn’t have been able to get the job I have now.
“It keeps you focused, it keeps you positive and it put me in a much better position.”