A Bronx woman says she faces the worst unemployment conundrum — getting turned down for a job because she doesn’t have one now.

Valerie White claims in a lawsuit that lost her bid for a human-resources job via a Manhattan staffing agency because she had been out of work for more than a year when she applied, she claims in a lawsuit.

White answered a Craigslist ad in July from the Solomon Page Group, which sought applicants for a $45,000-per-year position as a human resourcesn HR coordinator, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court suit.

White, who says she worked 16 years at one company as a payroll administrator, was quickly given an interview. During the interview, she alleges, a Solomon Page Group staffer told her: “I don’t think you can do this because you have been out of work for a year.”

The interviewer didn’t ask White any questions about her experience or qualifications, or give her any tests before ending the meeting, the lawsuit says.

The interviewer said someone from Solomon Page would call White the next day, the suit said. B — but no one called, White says —, and no one reached out or responded when she called, the suit claims.

Irate, White apparently doomed her chances of getting the gig by firing off an e-mail calling out the company’s alleged discrimination as “unprofessional.” She added: “To state that I cannot do a job because I have not worked in a year is foolish.”

Some 2.9 million Americans have been out of work for six months or longer, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. While that number has declined in recent months, numerous studies show the longer someone is out of work, the harder it is get a job.

Job seekers out of work from one to eight months see their chances of getting called in for an interview drop by 45 percent, according to a 2012 study cited by the Urban Institute.

Last year New York City banned employers from discriminating against job seekers who are out of work.

White says in the lawsuit she was “extremely humiliated, degraded, victimized, embarrassed and emotionally distressed” by the experience.

She is seeking unspecified damages.