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&lt;p&gt;If the unprecedented scale of layoffs and cut-backs in the last year have reduced the stigma of being jobless, they haven&amp;#8217;t entirely eliminated it&amp;#8212;as is clear from a recent &amp;#8220;no offer&amp;#8221; thread on AbovetheLaw. In response to advice that summer associates get over their sense of entitlement to an offer of post-graduation employment, many of the ATL commentariat suggested they wouldn&amp;#8217;t be so upset over not getting an offer if employers didn&amp;#8217;t consider the absence of an offer &amp;#8220;a stigma of shame and ineptitude&amp;#8221;. As one reader noted, &amp;#8220;Once law firms and other future employers stop looking at a &amp;#8216;no-offer&amp;#8217; like some kind of scarlet letter this won&#39;t be an issue.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s the Catch-22 of the unemployed: anxiety not just over the temporary lack of work but fear that your current jobless state will prevent you from &lt;i&gt;ever&lt;/i&gt; getting a job. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This scenario recently played out in the UK in a rather ugly way. According to RollOnFriday, a legal recruiting firm suffered from &amp;#8220;acute embarrassment&amp;#8221; after a consultant told a candidate that he couldn&amp;#8217;t be considered for a position at Vault Top-10 UK firm Norton Rose because he had been laid off by another firm. The job spec sent to the candidate reportedly &amp;#8220;had &amp;#8216;&lt;i&gt;Do not want redundant lawyers&amp;#8217;&lt;/i&gt; written smack in the middle of it.&amp;#8221; However, Norton Rose &amp;#8220;categorically&amp;#8221; denied that it imposes such a restriction, while &amp;#8220;a spokeswoman for&amp;nbsp;the consultancy&amp;nbsp;said that the consultant had made a mistake as &amp;#8216;&lt;i&gt;he was in a hurry&amp;#8217;&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;#8221; The consensus among readers on the RoF site seems to be that the consultant was &amp;#8220;taking the fall for the firm&amp;#8221; and his only &amp;#8220;mistake&amp;#8221; was to put the firm&amp;#8217;s request&amp;nbsp; in writing. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In either case&amp;#8212;whether the ban reflected the firm&amp;#8217;s demands or was an incorrect assumption on the part of the recruiter&amp;#8212;the real concern is, as RoF notes, &amp;#8220;whether it is an indication of more widespread discrimination against those who have been made redundant.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;- posted by vera&lt;/p&gt;

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