Peter Milne say he has applied for between 100-120 jobs, and had a dozen interviews, but can't get anything more than temporary on-call jobs driving and as a movie extra.
Graham Rogers of Manukau-based Advance Personnel Services says the job market was still "extremely tough".
"We used to have a huge workload in warehousing and in the last 18 months that has virtually dried up."
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