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There is plenty of good advice around for job seekers. Nearly every committed job seeker knows how to write a good 2-page CV, and how to network, and they are all throwing everything they have got at their job search. Yet, for many people it clearly still isn't working.
Women's unemployment is rising to a 25-year high while men's is falling, leading to a "female unfriendly" labour market, according to new research. ...
Amidst the legacy left by Lady Thatcher, for good or bad, is one simple fact concerning her Governments' impact on older peoples' struggles to control their work lives and destinies.
What drives this myth is anecdote. It is the old economic fallacy of noticing only that which is seen and ignoring that which is not seen. It is obvious when an immigrant is given a job before a native, you can see it with your own eyes, you hear about it from friends. However it is difficult, even impossible, to see the jobs being created as a result of the influx of immigrants.
There may be more of us working, but in real terms we're all working for less. Wages are not growing anywhere near as much as inflation and in fact the most recent data showed they rose at their slowest rate of growth since June 2010.
One thing that is clear is that unless action is taken now we risk a 'lost generation' of over 50s, unable to find work and consigned to living out their lives with lower living standards than they had hoped.
The number of people working beyond state pension age has almost doubled to 1.4 million in the past 20 years. The Office for National Statistics sa...
It would be easy to believe that youth unemployment began with this recession. The problem is, it's not true. The number of young people out of work actually started to rise in 2005. But why? If it's not just the recession, what's happening?
The Work Programme in the UK is at the cutting edge of this change - coupled with payment by results - and will need to be iterated to succeed and develop new ways to support people into work and self employment. More quickly, more people, for longer!
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Workers are being forced to take lower skilled, worse-paid jobs such as cleaning because of a shift in the labour market, away fr...
