Rojgar Job News

If you Google that phrase you get any number of possible movie sources for it, but here in the height of the holiday season, I can offer you two more. First, back to the studio at BBC News Online where some staffer with time on his/her hands and a page to fill produced last week the surreally pointless headline “Scaffolding collapse: nobody trapped under rubble” and to bring the piece alive, put next to it a video clip of literally no-one being trapped in any way. Job done, I think. And then similarly to Acas for its newly re-issued guidance on Your First Job. This is clearly aimed at those fresh out of school or Uni, certificates burning a hole in their new pockets and off into the workplace for the first time. What are Acas’ key messages for this new generation? It’s not high-level stuff, in all honesty, and if people do come out of the UK educational system still needing this sort of thing then frankly we have altogether bigger problems than a shortage of STEM...