Sunday, August 30th, 2009 - Blog

Economic Recovery Employment It is fairly clear that economically, various global economies are in recovery from recession. This is both true for countries – France, Germany – as well as sectors: car manufacture. But it is not true of every country – the UK; every sector – steel; or every company – Toyota. Why? Simply, [...]

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Thursday, August 20th, 2009 - Article, Jobs Abroad, career management, education, employment, job search, university

A Level Economics Today is the day on which the 2009 A level results are announced. Yet again – surprise – a record-breaking number have been awarded A grades. More than one in four entries – 26.7% – got the top grade, up from 25.9% last year and the overall pass rate rose to 97.5%, [...]

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Friday, August 14th, 2009 - economics, employment, government jobs, job search, legal, recruitment, unemployment

Unemployment: Welsh rarebit The UK unemployment statistics were released this week, and looking through them they make grim reading. Across the UK, 220,000 jobs were lost in June 2009, taking unemployment to 2.43 million – the highest level since the summer of 1995. Effectively, the UK lost 100,000 jobs per month from November 2008 to [...]

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Sunday, August 9th, 2009 - job application, job search, legal, professionalism, recruitment

Legal Jobs I keep saying it, and I keep meaning it: in this recession, there are jobs out there, there are people getting employed, and there are sectors desperate for talent. But reading the newspapers today, the difference between sectors which are skills short and those which are currently over resourced can all be found [...]

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Friday, June 19th, 2009 - DWP, economics, employer, employment, health, professionalism, recruitment, tutorial

Drugs and Employment I have wanted to publish this article for ages, but held back for a while. But its a Friday, I am under a bit of pressure, and so I thought – why not! As a recruiter in a regulated market place – HGV driving – I think we probably get at best [...]

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