He has tried hard to find a job, and every week goes for training at the job centre.

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Though I found it extremely hard to find a decent job in Bahrain, I did not lose hope.

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So to get ahead, we had to work twice as hard, and to find a summer job, we sometimes had to look twice as hard.

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Here in the United States of America, if you are willing to work hard, you should be able to find a good job.

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"Even college graduates are having a hard time finding employment since everyone is competing to find a job in these tough times, " said Hamilton.

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Ms Weir said many single parents, who had been away from work for many years, were being put "under intense pressure" to find work by ministers who did not "recognise the real-world constraints that make it hard for them to find and keep a job".

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When I meet the American people, they know that if somebody works hard, they should be able to find a job and get paid a decent wage.

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Instead all of the disturbance falls on outsiders, who have a hard time finding a job and landowners who find it difficult to profitably develop new areas.

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Our goal is to build an economy where hard work and responsibility are rewarded -- where you can find a good job, make a good wage, own your own home, maybe start a business, send your kids to college.

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Lenore Seeley(ph), who heads a federally funded job center called Central New York Works, says manufacturing jobs like that are hard to find in Syracuse these days.

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The mismatch between the skills demanded by employers and those available in the market is a reflection both of bad choices by students, who have not thought hard enough about what will help them find a good job, and of education systems that are too often indifferent to the needs of the labour market and too slow to change even if they try.

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