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Thursday, 26 February 2009

Unemployed: Can job centres benefit from the private sector experience?

With the recent news that unemployment has reached nearly 2 million, it has been revealed that Job Centres cannot cope with the quantity and quality of workers coming through their doors. They are being criticised for not providing an adequate service for highly skilled, white collar professionals and the Government has announced that private companies will work alongside traditional job centres to redress this issue during the recession. I’m not sure we could expect local Job Centres, who are perhaps more used to placing lower skilled workers, to rise to the challenge of understanding the needs and markets of the more accomplished employees. Perhaps those white collar workers should look to retraining to find a suitable job. Do you think its right that recruitment agencies are being asked to work with the job centres?

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Monday, 20 October 2008

Unemployment has risen - are you laying people off?

Figures have just been released for September and the number out of work is now 1.79million, according to government figures and the official unemployment rate is up from 5.5% to 5.7%. Are you having to let anyone go from your offices, are you cutting back on time yourself - or working longer hours for same or less payment?

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