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Developed in conjunction with The Careers Group, University of London (which provided the site’s content and technical build), the new site will initially provide wide-ranging information and advice for the crop of graduates leaving the capital’s universities this summer.

A unique feature of the site enables graduates to enter their degree discipline and access relevant job and career results, including employers who typically recruit in the field and the salaries they pay. The site also provides extensive advice on how to go about finding and applying for work, preparing CVs and attending interviews, plus information on job fairs in the capital, internship schemes and other postgraduate opportunities.

Anne-Marie Martin, director of The Careers Group, said “The portal helps graduates expand their career thinking, an essential pre-requisite in these difficult economic times. It has been a truly collaborative project bringing together information and expertise from the Mayor’s office and from across the higher education sector in London.”

‘Helping Graduates into Work’ is also a key initiative of the mayor’s economic recovery plan - a careers site with clear signposts to the diverse range of work opportunities that exist in the capital.

For more information visit : Helping Graduates into work

Article sourced : ri5

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Responding to the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

‘Despite the talk of green shoots, unemployment continues to rise at an alarming rate - the fourth highest quarterly rise on record. Today’s figures show we are still some way off recovery.

‘With over one in six young people out of work, unemployment is already at crisis level. The Government must do more to get people back into work, otherwise we risk losing another generation of young people to mass unemployment.

‘The Government’s Future Jobs Fund for young people out of work for over a year could provide real hope as long it provides proper work at a decent wage. But long-term youth unemployment is already at 140,000, so demand for places will be high.

‘The Future Jobs Fund must continue to be properly resourced and expanded so that more people - including older jobseekers who face never being able to work again - can benefit from it.’

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Women are proving more resilient to the job market than men. 10% of men who graduated last year remain unemployed whereas only 6.5% of women are in the same boat!

The counties young seem to be bearing the brunt of the economic crisis with 20% of under 24 year olds out of work. One third of graduates are unable to get graduate jobs!

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Ryanair is to set to create hundreds of jobs at a new base at Leeds Bradford International Airport.

Leeds Bradford International airport will almost double in size after permission for a £28m development was recently approved.

The new base would create and sustain 1,000 jobs in Yorkshire.

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The Future Jobs Fund is a fund of around £1 billion to support the creation of jobs for long term unemployed young people and others who face significant disadvantage in the labour market.
The Fund was announced in Budget 2009 and the money is to be spent between October 2009 and March 2011. As the Future Jobs Fund is a challenge fund, not all organisations that submit bids will be successful. The fund is run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in partnership with the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) and with input from JobCentre Plus and Regional Government Offices in England.

The Fund aims to create 150,000 jobs, primarily aimed at 18-24 year olds who have been out of work for nearly a year. Future Jobs Fund is a part of the Young Person’s Guarantee. From early 2010, everyone in between the ages of 18 and 24 who has been looking for work for a year will get an offer of a job, work experience, or training lasting at least 6 months. We are keen to encourage bids from all areas across Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). We are also specifically targeting 50,000 jobs in unemployment hotspots and expect around 10,000 of the 150,000 jobs created to be green jobs.

We encourage innovative bids to create jobs and the Government is keen to work with local authorities, social enterprises and charities to turn this important priority into reality for 150,000 people.

Who can bid?

Bids can come from anyone, but we have a strong preference for partnership bids involving a wide range of organisations. We expect a significant number of bids for funding to be led by local authorities, sub-regional, city region and local partnerships, or by national or local public sector and third sector bodies. But we are also looking to organisations in the third sector and private sector to play their part in creating new, exciting jobs.

We expect bids to the Fund to be mainly led by larger organisations However, we are committed to helping smaller organisations, including social enterprises, get involved, and so we strongly encourage such organisations to work in partnership with local authorities and/ or other third sector organisations to develop joint bids. We will continue to refine the bidding processes to ensure that we meet our aims and organisations of all sizes are involved.

For more information visit the DWP website

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