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Originally Posted by Ellen

Just because you are signed up to an agency it does not guarantee you employment, you still have to go through interviews which does not guarantee you a job been offered.
If you are up against numerous people going for the same job your chances become less for securing a position.

You are right Ellen,I am with you here.
I know Students who are signed up to Agencies,just for temporary work even really but some have never had a place to go to yet, some also have to keep pushing to see if there is anything about.

I also have spoken to a good number of people who in order to hold their jobs have had to see their hours cut from 37+ to 30 hours a week, meaning a good loss of income for them.
More and more people are now in what is more like part time work rather than the good full time hours they had before.

There are always companies culling staff and other companies taking on a few more people, likely never enough to start eating into the unemployed though, it is also likely a bit easier to get into a job if you have only just recently been made unemployed,once you have been out of work for a while, it then gets more and more difficult.

You don't have to be a mathematician however to work out that with an estimated just under 0.5 million vacancies in the Country and around 2.6 million unemployed that those figures are not divisible to help cut unemployment.You cannot get 2.6 million into half a million,no matter how you try.

It is really good if someone can lose a job, then quickly succeed in finding another quickly,good luck to them,that is brilliant,likely achieved by a lot of skill and also a bit of luck too.
However my own thoughts would be they are more likely a minority rather than a majority of people looking for and/or needing work.

There are lots of other factors as to getting a job, the interview process, how to properly prepare a CV too, these are the areas the Govt needs to get right into to help people find work.
Overall though, an absolutely massive amount of investment in creating jobs needs to take place and also measures to ensure those jobs are lasting,long time positions.

The future doesn't look good on all fronts and I am personally just thankful that I will have 2 careers I could go into after Uni, I will really consider myself one of the lucky ones and not generalise that all should be able to do what I will have been fortunate to have been able to.