Job market Growing Slowly from June
Thursday, July 8, 2010 21:48The number of employees grew dates in June, according to a survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). It reported another strong increase in permanent staff placements, with planning and construction of the most sought after. However, the pace of growth was the slowest for five months.
Rec said more people were available for permanent and temporary work in June compared to the previous months. The report adds that cut to the growing fear of the British capacity for employment with the new government expected that the number of people employed in the public sector.
Rec-Chief Kevin Green said: “This is an encouraging sign that the labor market is stable and in some sectors such as construction and engineering, is growing rapidly.
“Knock-on effect ‘ “But with the predictions of up to 600,000 jobs lost in the public sector, it is still too early to say how much they have a domino effect of this on job creation in the private sector.”
Bernard Brown, of KPMG, which helped with the research, said he believed some of these jobs could be met by private enterprise: “The big challenge will be to as many of these jobs as possible to the private sector through outsourcing and divestment transfer. ” The survey of 400 recruitment and employment consultancies comes after reports earlier this week of massive graduate unemployment.



