A model who defied serious illness to strut on the catwalk has spoken of her despair after being turned down for 400 JOBS.
Despite hundreds of applications, Tiffany Hill, who last year took part in the Miss Birmingham finals wearing a colostomy bag, has been invited to only five interviews.
The 22-year-old, from Castle Vale, told the Sunday Mercury: “How about scrapping digital interviews and actually meeting your possible employee?”
The beauty showed bravery to match her looks by taking part in the Miss Birmingham pageant despite battling severe bowel disease. She was awarded the “Miss Publicity” title at the competition,
Tiffany was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when she was 16, a condition that left her in constant pain.
The illness was the spur for medics at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, to decide to remove a portion of her bowel five years ago.
But despite the publicity generated by Tiffany’s refusal to buckle to illness, she has been shown the door again and again by prospective employers.
The former fashion student worked behind the counter at Castle Vale Perfume Shop, but quit to chase an office career.
She has hit a brick wall despite her modelling work receiving recognition and rave reviews.
Tiffany, who has appeared in magazines and on billboards, said: “I felt I could offer more than staying in a sales assistant position, so decided to leave the perfume shop thinking I’d be able to walk straight into a job.
“I was wrong. Very wrong
“Since January I have been applying for jobs every single day. Most the time I never hear back. I’m on every job site you can find, and trying my hardest to find work.
“Now I’m in a position of having to attend the Job Centre each week to prove I am looking for work.
“I’ve tried for everything – trainee jobs, apprenticeships, retail and admin. But nothing.
“When applying there are so many processes. I’ve had to have assessments, digital interviews and all this is a long process. It takes weeks, even months, just to get an interview.
“Of the 400 jobs I’ve applied for, I’ve been invited to attend just five interviews, all of them unsuccessful. I also had a telephone interview where they laughed and sniggered at me.
“An assessment day I attended – a day I thought would lead to a job – only meant I was put into a talent pool for when jobs were coming up.”
Tiffany, who has attended college for three years, has various qualifications up to diploma level.
“It’s not like I don’t want to work,” she said. “But even securing an interview is so difficult.
“Most of the application process these days is automated. I’m appalled at how a hard-working, educated young girl like me isn’t even being given the chance to meet the bosses behind advertised vacancies.
“I can only hope tat the coming weeks have something positive in store for me.”http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/miss-birmingham-finalist-been-turned-12991997
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