Komunikační a sociální bariéry u nezaměstnaných lidí

The bachelor thesis deals with communication and social barriers of the unemployed. The main purpose of the thesis is to find out what kind of obstacles the job applicants meet the most and what impact unemployment has on both professional and personal life of these individuals. In the first, theoretical, part, the readers are introduced to important insights and information regarding the issue, essential for the practical part. It analyses unemployment and its most common kinds, types of barriers hindering people from successful communication, types of barriers associated with social changes in the labor market and lastly, the negative effects of unemployment that affect not only afflicted individuals, but the whole society. Practical part is based on a survey research that took place in the Labor Office´s branch in Hradec Králové region. Formulated hypotheses were tested on the representative sample of 40 respondents by using the method of questionnaires. Based on the found facts, the author comes to the conclusion that psychosocial impact of unemployment is more significant for individuals who live on their own without having a partner and for people who have to raise children alone; another findings conclude that prevalent part of the unemployed feel disadvantaged especially by the age factor and that communication skills of 50% of the sample are limited.