Is this good or bad? From what I can assume this is good for wages right?
I’m watching the “Central Government Net Cash Requirement” with unusual interest. With the end of furlough and increases in tax revenue, this seems to be improving very quickly. In the most recent figures, from a requirement for 14.4bn (Oct 2020) to 2.2bn (Oct 2021). The next figures are due around Dec 19, and it’ll be interesting to see if it gets into positive territory.
I’m considering a job move, most of what is advertised is either part time, unsociable hours, shift work or care work. If you want a non office, 8 tiill 5, 40hr, Monday to Friday job you are struggling.
I am unsure if this is good.
My partner works for a recruitment agency dealing with various sectors. From what I’ve been told the shortage of decent competent staff currently is insane.
They’ve struggled to get any candidates for well paid jobs and the applicants they have found are a poor fit and frankly quite incompetent.
This should worry everyone that doesn’t have a workplace that premotes internally as your next superior could be that idiot that ‘will do for now.’
It seems there are tonnes of sectors severely lacking in just competent staff with the training they require. This has left a lot of industries scratching their heads about what to do.
I don’t think this is going to go the same way it did for the lorry drivers. Most sectors will find the staff by lowering standards not paying more.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen it in recently years in the healthcare industry as one example.
Very good for IT at the moment, even better if you can actually do your job as well. Lots of slop coming out of universities as predicted, but it’s great for the 30 somethings.
Are we having a near economic contraction AND record job vacancies.
That is an unusual circumstance. Does economics have an explanation of that?
You’ve never had it so good!
And yet quality of life is poor and standards of living continue to decline.
Anyone with a modicum of awareness of the job market shouldn’t be surprised at this. Costs of living shoot up, Brexit has dissuaded workers willing to put up with shittier pay, and wages remain stagnant.
Meanwhile, the gap between the super rich and the rest of the country (and world) yawns ever wider.
Yet im sat here with a stem phd from oxford wondering why the fuck no one wants to sponsor a tier 2 visa. I’m probably gonna end up moving to the EU.
Education budget destoyed by the Tories. University expensive as hell and a gamble as to whether it will pan out or not. Jobs don’t like to spend money on training staff and on staff retention.
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Is this good or bad? From what I can assume this is good for wages right?
I’m watching the “Central Government Net Cash Requirement” with unusual interest. With the end of furlough and increases in tax revenue, this seems to be improving very quickly. In the most recent figures, from a requirement for 14.4bn (Oct 2020) to 2.2bn (Oct 2021). The next figures are due around Dec 19, and it’ll be interesting to see if it gets into positive territory.
I’m considering a job move, most of what is advertised is either part time, unsociable hours, shift work or care work. If you want a non office, 8 tiill 5, 40hr, Monday to Friday job you are struggling.
I am unsure if this is good.
My partner works for a recruitment agency dealing with various sectors. From what I’ve been told the shortage of decent competent staff currently is insane.
They’ve struggled to get any candidates for well paid jobs and the applicants they have found are a poor fit and frankly quite incompetent.
This should worry everyone that doesn’t have a workplace that premotes internally as your next superior could be that idiot that ‘will do for now.’
It seems there are tonnes of sectors severely lacking in just competent staff with the training they require. This has left a lot of industries scratching their heads about what to do.
I don’t think this is going to go the same way it did for the lorry drivers. Most sectors will find the staff by lowering standards not paying more.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen it in recently years in the healthcare industry as one example.
Very good for IT at the moment, even better if you can actually do your job as well. Lots of slop coming out of universities as predicted, but it’s great for the 30 somethings.
Are we having a near economic contraction AND record job vacancies.
That is an unusual circumstance. Does economics have an explanation of that?
You’ve never had it so good!
And yet quality of life is poor and standards of living continue to decline.
Anyone with a modicum of awareness of the job market shouldn’t be surprised at this. Costs of living shoot up, Brexit has dissuaded workers willing to put up with shittier pay, and wages remain stagnant.
Meanwhile, the gap between the super rich and the rest of the country (and world) yawns ever wider.
Yet im sat here with a stem phd from oxford wondering why the fuck no one wants to sponsor a tier 2 visa. I’m probably gonna end up moving to the EU.
Education budget destoyed by the Tories. University expensive as hell and a gamble as to whether it will pan out or not. Jobs don’t like to spend money on training staff and on staff retention.
the perfect storm.