Living without a job: Personal stories
UK unemployment has reached 2.62 million, says the Office for National Statistics.
Youth unemployment reached a record high of 1 million.
Christopher Harris is from Derbyshire and has been unemployed since losing his job as a mechanical engineer in 2009.
Click on the tabs above to hear more stories from people who are trying - and failing - to find work.
15 Nov 2011
- From the section Business