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| Employers ruling out school leavers and long-term jobless, CIPD warns | Employers ruling out school leavers and long-term jobless, CIPD warns |
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| Jobseekers face a "battleground" for work with 45 applicants now chasing every low-skilled job, according to a report on Monday that warns a government clampdown on benefit claimants could push that number even higher. | Jobseekers face a "battleground" for work with 45 applicants now chasing every low-skilled job, according to a report on Monday that warns a government clampdown on benefit claimants could push that number even higher. |
| School leavers and the long-term unemployed are the hardest hit by the jobs scrum as many employers overwhelmed with applications say they will not even consider candidates from those two groups, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). | School leavers and the long-term unemployed are the hardest hit by the jobs scrum as many employers overwhelmed with applications say they will not even consider candidates from those two groups, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). |
| Its quarterly survey of employers suggests employment growth will continue over coming months as the private sector hires at a faster pace while the public sector continues to cut jobs. But the CIPD warns that despite the pick-up in jobs, competition for work is intense. | Its quarterly survey of employers suggests employment growth will continue over coming months as the private sector hires at a faster pace while the public sector continues to cut jobs. But the CIPD warns that despite the pick-up in jobs, competition for work is intense. |
| "The labour market at present is a battleground for jobseekers, particularly those with fewer skills or qualifications," said Gerwyn Davies, CIPD labour market adviser. | "The labour market at present is a battleground for jobseekers, particularly those with fewer skills or qualifications," said Gerwyn Davies, CIPD labour market adviser. |
| "With more than 40 applicants typically chasing every low-skilled job already; there's a danger that the stricter requirements being imposed by government on benefit recipients to look for work, coupled with the ongoing shift towards online recruitment, may lead to even more applicants for employers to consider for each vacancy in the future." | |
| The survey puts the median number of applicants for medium-skilled roles at 29, while highly skilled vacancies typically receive 10 applicants. | The survey puts the median number of applicants for medium-skilled roles at 29, while highly skilled vacancies typically receive 10 applicants. |
| The CIPD warns that as employers become overwhelmed with applicants they are barring whole groups of candidates. In the survey, 14% of employers said they would not consider employing school leavers and 11% would not recruit from the ranks of the long-term unemployed. | The CIPD warns that as employers become overwhelmed with applicants they are barring whole groups of candidates. In the survey, 14% of employers said they would not consider employing school leavers and 11% would not recruit from the ranks of the long-term unemployed. |
| The survey did suggest employment will continue to grow with the net employment balance – which measures the difference between the proportion of employers who expect to increase staffing levels and those who intend to reduce staffing levels – up to +9 from +5 for the previous quarter. | The survey did suggest employment will continue to grow with the net employment balance – which measures the difference between the proportion of employers who expect to increase staffing levels and those who intend to reduce staffing levels – up to +9 from +5 for the previous quarter. |
| But Davies warns that unemployment could continue to rise, nonetheless. | But Davies warns that unemployment could continue to rise, nonetheless. |
| "Given that the UK population is projected to increase by roughly half a million people over the next 12 months, we could see a scenario where rising employment is accompanied by increases to unemployment," he says. | "Given that the UK population is projected to increase by roughly half a million people over the next 12 months, we could see a scenario where rising employment is accompanied by increases to unemployment," he says. |