While most economists are fighting off fears of the dreaded double dip recession, employment experts are happy to announce that job opportunities are up.
One recruitment agency has found, thanks to recent research, that not only have opportunities for freelancers and umbrella company contractors been up over the month of January but positions for PAYE workers are looking up as well. January’s job opportunities were three per cent higher than they were in December of 2012, the recruiters found, adding that year-on-year gains were an even more impressive 12 per cent.
The three sectors with the strongest growth factors were found to be healthcare, education, and social care, with respective increases of 52 per cent, 63 per cent, and 68 per cent. The north-east was the fastest growing region for job opportunities, while Scotland< the West Midlands, Wales, and the north-west were also rated quite high as well by the research study.
The recruitment agency’s chairman, James Reed, was happy to announce that yet again all the fire-and-brimstone prognosticators have been proven wrong in their febrile insistence that the UK jobs market would end up in the bin in the wake of the economic downturn, as the exact opposite has been the case for several years now. Instead, the realities are that growing jobseeker confidence in combination with a more robust demand for new staff on the part of firms has shown that the jobs market has been strengthening for at least the past 12 months, added Mr Reed.
