You all have been an encouraging community for me the last couple years, and I appreciate any prayers you can send our way. To give some context, my husband does contract IT work (remote/work from home), and his last contract ended in October. As you probably know, the job market has been tough recently, there's been a ton of layoffs and it's been hard for him to to find work in his field. He's applied to a ton of jobs, had a lot of recruiter phone calls, but nothing has come through yet. Many jobs are STILL requiring the vax (even remote ones!) which my husband will never do, and he's passed up good opportunities because of this. Since a lot of the work is contract based, most of the positions are only hiring for 6, 9, or 12 months. It's hard to find anything long term/permanent in his field anymore. He's thought about switching careers and has even applied to jobs outside his industry, but has a lot of good experience built up and as you know it's hard to switch careers later in life. Just praying for one of these opportunities to work out, and also if this is God leading him to something else, that he will be open to that calling.
Thank you so much, and please let me know if there's anything I can pray for you about as well!
EDIT: Thank you so much for everyone who took the time to respond! I shared all of the encouragement, prayers, advice, and job recommendations to my husband and we are so appreciative of all of you. I tried to reply or DM to each person here, but I apologize if I missed anyone. This community is awesome and I am so grateful to have found it. I hope to update you all soon with good news about a new job/opportunity for both of us! Much love and blessings to you ❤️
One thing I would be doing is waving off the vax question. When you hear "vaccinated" just think of it as "immune". It's the same, the intent is the same, so if I were asked "are you vaccinated?" I would write or say "yes" with the justification that they are really asking is "are you safe to be around?". Consider this an allowable "misunderstanding". Asked for proof I would say "Oh it's true I will look into that" and I would never present anything, asked again I would say I haven't got round to asking my doctor, trying to get to begin the work without it, but if not, at least their time is wasted too. The fall back is just sending in a handwritten self-signed declaration of immunity. Declare yourself immune in one sentence without justification. Don't let them filter you out because of vax.
Good idea, and I like where you're going with this, but what is happening is jobs are asking the question on the application if you're vaxed or not, so my husband doesn't want to lie. What happens if they then ask for proof during the interview process and he doesn't have it? Most likely if it's a requirement they wont offer the job without some type of proof.
And when the recruiters call, that is one of the questions they ask. So they are just not submitting his resume for roles, and will gladly pick those who are saying yes to taking it. It's about 50% of jobs he's looking at, so not everyone. I'm just surprised companies are still asking for it with all the negative side effects coming out (even mainstream now).