The PCS union, which represents job centre workers and other Department for Work and Pensions staff, blames delays on cuts which have seen 30,000 DWP jobs go in recent years with no reduction in workload.
Or perhaps all this amped-up degree-getting just represents job market "signaling" -- the economist A. Michael Spence's Nobel-worthy notion that degrees are less valuable for what you learn than for broadcasting your go-get-'em qualities.
All buta couple of the people picturedin your article are unskilled workers, and in some cases, like the assembly-line worker and machine operator, represent jobs that are extinct, or nearly so.
These 700,000 payrolls represent jobs in industries as diverse as construction, mortgage banking, architectural services and retail sales among others.
To ensure reliability of the quality research, the respondents were grouped in accordance to the geographical distribution and diversity of the levels and types of the represented jobs and institutions.
Prisons represent jobs for hundreds of industries including: road builders, construction workers, uniform makers, food distributors, law enforcement, parole officers, health care workers, and phone companies.
Basically, this would represent job creation at about the rate of population growth.
But the most represented job title was foreign affairs officer, under the US Department of State's Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (OES).
Mr. Redmond, a former executive recruiter, helped start the firm more than a decade ago so he could represent job seekers rather than big companies.
