The 360 Recruitment Advertising Blog

It’s amazing what can come out of a Friday afternoon get together by a few industry types.

Matt Alder Recruiting Futurologist of MetaShift, Jamie Leonard of Reconverse.com, Graeme Holiday and myself from 360 Degrees Advertising were pulling the industry apart as you do, when we got on to the state of the economy and employment in general. Raising the spectre of youth unemployment and the truly obscene figure of one million people between 18-24 being unemployed in the UK, apart from the general unemployment figure, the conversation took a turn towards the apparent or perceived disconnect between employers and young people.

On one hand employers are saying they can’t attract good candidates, others, particularly SME’s either don’t have the confidence in the economy to hire or don’t have confidence in the commitment of young people. On the other hand we have young people, Graduate and not, who say there are no jobs.

Into our conversation came the idea of getting some traction behind the idea of giving a job for Christmas. Not a job just for Christmas but as a Christmas present to a young person. Giveajobforchristmas. Between 1st and 31st December let’s encourage employers to offer at least one young unemployed person a job for next year. It could be just one job or a hundred. But anything that will make a dent in the UK’s unemployed young people figures is a step in the right direction.

I realize that someone somewhere (scrooge) may say this is a discriminating act on age grounds, however provided other age groups are not precluded from applying, let’s just say it’s the season of good cheer.

So we are now going into the twittersphere to promote www.Giveajobforchristmas.com, where you can post a job for free. (Note to employers. Please put some jobs on the site to get us going!). We will be live on 1st December. You can just email us with a job and we will post it for you prior to the 1st.

You can follow us on Twitter @giveajob4xmas or join our community at facebook.com/giveajobforchristmas to show your support.

Have a good one.

Roger Juniper Chairman 360 Degrees Advertising.

@360advertising

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