A summary of the results of a survey of unemployed workers in the Auckland Eastern Suburbs

This article considers the attitudes of a small sample of unemployed people towards the characteristics of potential jobs, how they search for jobs, and which of their own attributes they perceive may be relevant to getting a job. The results are based upon the initial analysis of a survey of unemployed people carried out at the New Zealand Employment Service (NZES) Panmure office in the Auckland Eastern Suburbs ‘travel to work area’ (TTWA) during November–December 1996.