Agencies at work
Sir: Two weeks Ago our local weekly newspapers, the Croydon Advertiser Group, which covers a wide area of S. London, headed, their editorial 'The Misery of Unemployment' and described the plight of school-leavers and others who cannot find work. In the same edition there were no less than four full pages of classified job vacancies.
At this time there are national daily, Sunday and two evening newspapers in London, also provincial daily, weekly and evening newspapers, together with trade and professional journals, throughout the UK, offering vacancies of all types, with some firms even giving free training in their own particular field.
The Spectator's pet aversion, employment agencies, abound on every street corner and they, together with the sophisticated and equally pernicious management consultants for the upper echelon vacancies, list enough jobs, which, if not fictitious, would stretch for miles.
One would presume that all these vacancies are on offer to suitable applicants at the Department of Employment, who base the unemployment figures on dole handed out, but a flaccid reply from the manager of our local Department of Employment says that only a few are registered and that they hope employers will let them know of their requirements.
An interesting aspect would be to know how many school-leavers seeking benefit are, in fact, literate and numerate enough to do an intelligent job, but, nevertheless, just in case he does not know what is going on at the bottom end of the scale — Mr Foot, please note.
Sheila Burns Winsome 27 Peaks Hill Purley, Surrey CR2 3..TG
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