Underemployment rose sharply during the recession, Government figures have
shown, in statistics that take the gloss off a relatively robust performance
from the UK labour market during the economic downturn.
By James Hall and Angela Monaghan
Published: 9:44PM GMT 16 Feb 2010
Almost three million people were not working as many
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Parents dismay as graduates struggle to find work.
By James Caan
Published: 7:14AM GMT 01 Feb 2010
I’m a big believer that one of the UK’s key priorities should be young people
and their employment.
The last year has seen a wave of terrific talent dismissed or ignored. The
class of
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Parents dismay as graduates struggle to find work.
By James Caan
Published: 7:14AM GMT 01 Feb 2010
I’m a big believer that one of the UK’s key priorities should be young people
and their employment.
The last year has seen a wave of terrific talent dismissed or ignored. The
class of
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The tax on bankers’ bonuses will be used to fund jobs or training for anyone
aged between 16 and 24 who has been unemployed for more than six months,
Gordon Brown will announce on Monday.
By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 7:30AM GMT 25 Jan 2010
The guarantee will
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Admit it, your CV’s mouldy. Why wouldn’t it be? There are skirting boards to clean, the freezer to defrost and the curtains could do with an iron. Like other parts of your life your CV could probably do with a spring clean. It’s cold and dark outside, you’re feeling skint,
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THE beginning of this new year — after a very difficult 2009 for job seekers — offers a good opportunity to review and fine-tune every element of an employment search, from résumés to thank-you notes.
Sean Kelly
While you may be doing almost everything right, neglecting or mishandling just one or two
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Britain is ushering in the new year with the threat of widespread unrest as civil servants, tube drivers and rail workers are poised to ballot on strike action.
After a year of factory occupations, indefinite walkouts, postal misery and the debacle of the strike ballot by 12,000 British Airways cabin crew,
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I GRADUATED from York University in Toronto in 1975 with an English degree and worked as a junior copy clerk at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation there. The next year I bought a motorcycle and wanderlust hit. In 1977, I traveled to Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, and ended
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MY mother had my sister at 15 and me at 17. She raised us by herself when my father went to jail. We lived in the South Bronx. People assumed she’d never be able to achieve in life and neither would we. But my mother never stopped going to school.
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STILL in holiday peace-and-goodwill mode? Aww. How sweet!
Christoph Hitz
Just a quick bit of advice: Read something else.
Seriously, beat it, O.K.? Because Christmas is so two days ago, and in this episode we are going to e into the dark heart of the janitorial franchise world — which turns out to
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