[Tom]

Originally Posted by angus58

National statistics show that unemployment is around the 2.5 million mark, with available job vacancies standing at around half a million.

The 2.5m include benefit skanks who don't want a job, the disabled who can't work and those well enough to not have to work. In some cases it also includes self employed and freelance workers. The statistics for available job vacancies are only predictions based on job advertisements from selected agencies. If people are having that hard a time finding a job, you've got to be pretty rubbish if you can't even manage a Christmas temp job at a low end store. Both statistics are severely flawed and only used in light of the media reaction to the recession

I don't have an impressive or stable work history and am only I'm 21 yet I'm a customer service manager. I clearly got my job based on determination and potential given some of the people I was up against