The Find a Job website alone is currently showing 1,004 live vacancies in Shropshire and Telford.
There are nearly 200 nursing and healthcare jobs advertised, followed by 150-plus general jobs and more than 75 teaching roles available.
“Jobcentre Plus dedicated 50-plus champions have started to deliver the Government's ‘Mid Life MOT’ to many of our 50-plus claimants. The first session was delivered in Telford at Southwater One and was timed to coincide with a jobs fair so that, after their MOT, the participants could also attend the fair. In March, further sessions will be delivered across Shropshire.
The Office for National Statistics said the rate of UK unemployment was 3.7 per cent in the three months to December, the same rate that was recorded in the three months to November. However, it had edged higher than the previous calendar quarter, with the unemployment rate standing at 3.6 per cent in the three months to September.
For Telford & Wrekin, the number remained the same at 3,950 . And in Powys, the number was up five at 1,735 .
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