Jobs winners and losers since 2001

The figures, which were revealed in a report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), a Government-funded body, also show that many state-funded occupations have enjoyed substantial growth since 2001.

Occupation category	Numbers (2001)	Numbers (2009)	% Decrease
Assemblers (electrical products)	108,076	33,885	69
Collector salespeople and credit agents	26,735	9,794	63
Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods)	68,745	26,556	61
Typists	36,682	15,189	59
Bookbinders and print finishers	36,266	15,385	58
Metal-making and treating process operatives	27,732	11,910	57
Metal machine setter and setter-operators	94,580	40,708	57
Telephonists	49,581	22,090	55
Precious instrument makers and repairers	35,907	19,559	54
Sewing machinists	74,480	35,757	52
Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out	35,691	17,136	52
Printing machine minders and assistants	34,098	18,060	47
Telephone salespeople	93,014	52,020	44
Roundsmen and van salespeople	35,300	35,300	43
Plastics process operatives	69,596	39,492	43
Textiles and garment trades	59,261	35,492	40
Quality assurance technicians	20,705	8,255	40
Shopkeepers and wholesale and retail dealers	204,638	123,516	40
Glaziers and fitters	59,255	36,397	39
Metal-working machine operatives	110,029	67,626	39

The winners

Occupation category	Numbers (2001)	Numbers (2009)	% Increase
Conservation & environ. protection officers	11,797	26,470	124
Paramedics	11,101	23,798	114
Legal associate professionals	24,509	51,250	109
Refuse and salvage occupations	21,750	44,393	104
Leisure and theme park attendants	11,101	22,471	102
Town planners	13,886	26,931	94
Educational assistants	252,358	482,979	91
Driving instructors	23,265	44,494	91
Registrars and senior educational administrators	25,195	44,210	75
Purchasing managers	24,415	41,457	70
Psychologists	20,947	35,080	67
Undertakers and mortuary assistants	11,157	18,379	65
Beauticians and related occupations	32,476	53,055	63
Youth and community workers	70,868	114,992	62
Senior officials in special interest organisations	17,767	28,385	60
Housing and welfare officers	110,357	176,173	60
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers	15,129	24,079	59
Pharmaceutical dispensers	25,505	40,052	57
Social service managers	32,201	50,463	57
Statutory examiners	11,067	17,275	56

Jobs market getting worse

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And how many times does this have to keep happening before we do something about it? And by doing something about it I do not mean making government non jobs, I mean actually making and exporting things people want.

Its too late for this girl, is it too late for the rest of us

Unspun stats

The employment rate for the three months to February 2010 was 72.1 per cent. The rate was down 0.3 on the quarter and it has not been lower since the three months to October 1996. The number of people in employment fell by 89,000 on the quarter to reach 28.82 million. There were falls in employment over the quarter for both full-time workers (down 59,000) and part-time workers (down 30,000). The number of employees and self-employed people working part-time because they could not find a full-time job increased by 13,000 on the quarter to reach 1.05 million, the highest figure since comparable records began in 1992.

The unemployment rate for the three months to February 2010 was 8.0 per cent. The rate was up 0.1 on the quarter and it has not been higher since the three months to September 1996. The number of unemployed people increased by 43,000 over the quarter to reach 2.50 million, the highest figure since the three months to December 1994. The number of people unemployed for up to six months fell by 46,000, to reach 1.22 million. However, the number of people unemployed for more than twelve months increased by 89,000 over the quarter to reach 726,000, the highest figure since the three months to July 1997.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?ID=12

Told you it was getting worse

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UK unemployment has broken through the 2.5 million mark for the first time since the Labour government came to power, after the jobless total jumped by 43,000 in the three months to February.

At 2.502 million, the number of people out of work is at its highest since the last three months of 1994. The jobless rate is now 8%, its highest since 1996.

And this is before the election post election there will be some massive austerity going on there is no other choice!

Another view

I have worked in recruitment. I wouldnt recommend it but it keeps the wolf from the door.

I've done two jobs in high street recruitment. The thing that bothered me was, that you are supposed to be trained up by people who have no interest in you doing well, as if you do, you are a threat.

This means they only help the people stay who they see as not a threat. I've seen this in a few sales jobs.

You can do the best job you could possibly do, but if you dont hit the numbers they want, or if they take a dislike to you, you are out.

The other thing I dont like in this sort of job, is that to establish dominance, you are expected to suck up unfair criticism or jokes at your expense, and if you dish it back, its seen as you being arrogant.

If you can tug your forelock while lazy fuckers tell you how they are great while looking like they are scared of you, give it a go.

I reckon it could be an ok job, if it wasnt for the shitty management style that has people fighting against each other like cat and dog rather than helping each other.

Call centre work is better to be honest.

I suspect being a rep would be similar but better.

Be aware that the rate of staff turnover in recruitment is high. They have no interest in helping you, its just sink or swim.

If you are good at brown nosing, it could be the job for you.

I'd love to get into a technical job to match my engineering degree, but mostly I do shitty sales stuff where they treat you like shit, because you are a disposable resource rather than someone worth investing in.

The view from the other side

Continuing this theme of recruitment consultant hatred here is a view from an acquaintance from the other side:

It was the worst job I have ever had in my life.

Not only do you have to be professionally two-faced, lie on a daily basis to both clients and candidates but you also have to be completely cold-blooded and uncaring.
I worked in quite a small market placing people into Social Housing positions. The jobs weren't particularly well paid in the first place, and then you had to take a cut of it - so a £10 an hour placement quickly became a £6 an hour job for the candidate.

I went home thoroughly demotivated every day. The culture is competative and the majority of recruitment consultants only cared about how big a margin they could negotiate and how much money they earned. Very, very few actually had anything interesting about them.

What has happened over the last few days

I got caught in the fake job bullshit again, in that normally big recruitment agency firms like Reed or Man power rarely have fake jobs, but quite recently even they have been putting up fake jobs and just lying through their teeth. I was told by Reed Manchester that there would be a job at Cowgill Holloway in Manchester. But I know the HR person there, and know of a couple of people who have survived the chop. I phoned them up immediately after the call with the agent, no such vacancy existed. Same thing happened with CLB coopers.

Some recruitment firms are even worse in that they simply make up a name of an accountancy firm, they thing we are stupid or something? In that we can't search the ACCA or ACA or CIMA lists if these companies exist or not? Or even just go through Yell?.

I've always hated people who have given false hope to others as it would be better to have not given them hope in the first place.