Chapter 10: Job Search for the Long-Term Unemployed: A Practical Approach for Practitioners

While the pandemic hit harshly millions who lost their jobs, it is affecting particularly hard the long-term job seekers, a sizable group that exceeded four million in early 2021. Despite their numbers, the long-term unemployed (LTU) have historically attracted little programmatic attention from policy makers and practitioners in the field. We refer to the paucity of interest that characterized the treatment of the LTU in an earlier work (Malka & Tiell, 2016), as well as in another chapter of this book. Surveys show for example that the percentage of LTU in February 2021 is comparable to the peak long-term unemployed percentage that we saw back in 2010 (Sharone, 2021).