I was struggling and looking for work several years ago and every training course/subsidised job needed me to be at least 6 months unemployed.
6 months went by, I looked along the hopeless offerings and one sprang out at me, someone to work interviewing 'Job Seeker Clients'.
I went to the counter and enquired, 'Ah right you've been unemployed over 6 months, we won't employ people over that period because they will probably have forgotten how to write basic English!'
How am I doing so far? I still don't know if this is good enough.