http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/unemployment/uk-unemployment-in-2007-lowest-for-22-years/ Economics Blog - current events and economics essays Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:34:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/unemployment/uk-unemployment-in-2007-lowest-for-22-years/comment-page-1/#comment-255 enlitener Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:15:54 +0000 http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/unemployment/uk-unemployment-in-2007-lowest-for-22-years/#comment-255 I am a freelance writer anf former top radio DJ originally Welsh. I would be willing to run as an imdependent MP and push for real change in the uk if I could get some support. I am a freelance writer anf former top radio DJ originally Welsh. I would be willing to run as an imdependent MP and push for real change in the uk if I could get some support.

]]> http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/unemployment/uk-unemployment-in-2007-lowest-for-22-years/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Steve Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:06:36 +0000 http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/unemployment/uk-unemployment-in-2007-lowest-for-22-years/#comment-156 As someone who is uneployed I am starting the think that the low levels of unemployment are a contrived myth. I was in a high demand area of IT and was made redundant 2 years ago, since then I have applied for maybe 80 jobs in the same field with no luck. What I have found is that employers are now more choosy about who they employ than at any time in the last 30 years. They can demand any skill set to the letter, any age group, degree, anything they want and the reason is this, they can choose candidates from anywhere in the world. As a Londoner I have been competing with the whole of the UK, all of Europe, Australia, S.Afrrica, India and many African nationalities. This of course does not work the other way around. This also puts employers in a position to delete their responsibility for any training and development of their employees, just discard the old used one and get the new updated one in the world wide employment market. As for retraining, assistance with jobfinding, if you havent got big money, forget it, there is nothing there, and the government via their jobcentres, for all their talk, takes no interest whatsoever. As someone who is uneployed I am starting the think that the low levels of unemployment are a contrived myth. I was in a high demand area of IT and was made redundant 2 years ago, since then I have applied for maybe 80 jobs in the same field with no luck. What I have found is that employers are now more choosy about who they employ than at any time in the last 30 years. They can demand any skill set to the letter, any age group, degree, anything they want and the reason is this, they can choose candidates from anywhere in the world. As a Londoner I have been competing with the whole of the UK, all of Europe, Australia, S.Afrrica, India and many African nationalities. This of course does not work the other way around. This also puts employers in a position to delete their responsibility for any training and development of their employees, just discard the old used one and get the new updated one in the world wide employment market. As for retraining, assistance with jobfinding, if you havent got big money, forget it, there is nothing there, and the government via their jobcentres, for all their talk, takes no interest whatsoever.

]]> http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/unemployment/uk-unemployment-in-2007-lowest-for-22-years/comment-page-1/#comment-142 The Good and Bad News for UK Housing Market | Mortgage Blog Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:47:05 +0000 http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/unemployment/uk-unemployment-in-2007-lowest-for-22-years/#comment-142 [...] Mortgage arrears remain low. Unemployment in the UK recently fell to an all time low. - unemployment falls [...] [...] Mortgage arrears remain low. Unemployment in the UK recently fell to an all time low. – unemployment falls [...]

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