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I suspect that the "what can I do for you?" approach will swiftly become the accepted way of doing things, if the rate at which jobs are being lost in the UK carries on. Certainly in my sector (retail), anyway. I get an email from Daily Retail News every day (funnily enough), and it feels like nearly every day over the last few weeks, at least one of the stories has related to firms going into administration, and job losses.
Today, Marks and Spencers announced "approx" 1000 job losses in stores, and "several hundred more" in head office/support functions.
I've been made redundant twice in the last three years, and lost my job in November when the furniture retailer I was working for went into administration. At a (very rough) guess, I think that at least half my friends have been made redundant in the last couple of years.
Most of us are slightly too old to fall into Gen Y, but would still approach job-seeking in the same manner, since we're mostly at the age where we have mortgages, debts and responsibilities, and most simply cannot afford to be out of work for prolonged periods.
A friend of mine who is in early 40s with three children is currently preparing to sell his house (just outside London) and move his entire family north, purely because that's where he managed to find work, and he just doesn't have time to be picky before his money runs out.
So, whilst the dwindling job market is a factor, I think it's also a factor that the recent years of easy borrowing and astronomical house prices have mean't that a lot of slightly older people are in positions where their monthly outgoings are now unavoidably huge and largely geared to paying off secured loans, and so they are forced into taking jobs that might not be ideal just to keep their heads above water. |
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