While the jobless rate has been slowly creeping higher, alarm bells are ringing about the potential for a big surge in unemployment as recruiters report seeing hundreds of applications for a single job.
While the jobless rate has been slowly creeping higher, alarm bells are ringing about the potential for a big surge in unemployment.
It's made the job hunt highly competitive, and Ms Gorton said their agency is now receiving hundreds of applications for each individual job opening."Our job really is to do that short-listing on behalf of an organisation … and a lot of those are not appropriate. Crucially, Dr Chapman was not expecting mass sackings — rather, an influx of job seekers without enough available roles.
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