Graduate
unemployment increasing and recruiters have asked for a NI holiday
to boost graduates job
creation
A report published by the Recruitment and
Employment Confederation and also management consultancy KPMG has
shown that February was a strong month for recruitment, and overall
job vacancies rose, including that for graduate jobs.
Kevin Green, REC’s Chief executive has
commented “We anticipate that unemployment will increase over the
spring, summer and autumn, before very slowly starting to decline
at the very end of this year and into 2012. With more than 20% of
young people aged 16-24 still out of work, employers are remaining
cautious and favoring the more experience employee rather than a
fresh graduate.
Therefore recruiters called for the government to do
something that would positively affect graduate job creation and
improve the prospects for the ‘lost generation’. The holiday would
be a great benefit to small to medium sized enterprises and allow
for increased job creation.
The outlook for women is ominous, with a
decrease in Female employment by 0.5% (19,000) who lost their job.
Typical sectors that women work in are also still in decline with
retail vacancies falling by 34,000, education by 20,000, health and
social work by 18,000 and administrative and secretarial positions
by 14,000.With one in three women working in the public sector the
matter is also due to get worse.
The TUC’s general secretary Brendan Barber
said: “The UK desperately needs an economic strategy that
prioritises growth and jobs to bring revenues in and the deficit
down. The current plan of deep, rapid cuts is causing job losses to
mount and sending our economy in the wrong direction.”
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