Fewer people on the dole

10:30am Thursday 15th November 2012 in News

OXON: The number of people out of work and claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance in Oxfordshire has fallen for the seventh month in a row.

Official figures show there were 6,526 claimants in the county laset month, down 174 on September and 1,199 fewer than October last year.

Nationally, unemployment fell by 49,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to September, taking the jobless rate to 7.8 per cent from 7.9 per cent.

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Comments(3)

Darkforbid says...
12:24pm Thu 15 Nov 12

Because apparently sticking people on ESA,, is employment?

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Andrew:Oxford says...
1:18pm Thu 15 Nov 12

Doesn't surprise me. It's very difficult to recruit a good candidate in Oxford, we usually rely on agencies poaching them from somewhere else.

If you're:-

Personable
Well presented
Educated (don't pretend that a "d" is a pass)
Have a reasonable command of the English language
Hold a clean Google history

Then you are likely to already be in a good job in Oxford (or within 4 weeks of starting another).

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Pavinder Msvarensy says...
7:30pm Thu 15 Nov 12

The number of people out of work has RISEN, the number of people allowed to claim the benefit that classes them to be counted as unemployed according to new Tory counting rules (about 30 changes since the great Labour isn't working slogan of Thatchers first election, 1979 for you kiddies out there, google it) has fallen, if Cameron goes on changing the rules as much as his heroine did, then by next year we will have ZERO unemployment.

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