‘Bottoming out’ in the Merseyside jobs market……
T’was barely two weeks ago that a Bank of England Committee member Andrew Sentance was telling Channel 4 news that:
“We have to get to a point where the economy stops contracting before it begins to recover.”
Since he was in that well known bastion of full employment, Merseyside, at the time, I thought I would take a look at the jobs available there to see if there were any signs of the economy ‘bottoming out’.
Surprisingly, there were a few jobs available, and one in multi-media journalism caught my eye. Only £5,000 a year, but you have to start somewhere, and its not Macdonald’s or shelf stacking is it?
Huh! Read the small print, job seekers.
Press Association Training
Do you want a career in multi-media journalism?
There are vacancies for places on our prestigious 17-week training course aimed at producing the best multimedia reporters in the UK.
We train for most national and regional media publishers and all those who have successfully completed our Foundation Course over the past 10 years have found a reporting job.
The course takes place at our training centre in Newcastle upon Tyne. It combines training in traditional reporting practices – including shorthand, news writing, law and government – with the extra skills demanded by publishers today.
These include video journalism, video editing and writing for the web.
We are now seeking applications for the course that begins on August 24, 2009 and ends on December 18, 2009. The course is accredited by the NCTJ. The fee is £4,999. Many successful applicants are graduates, but applications are welcome from anyone with two A-levels or three Highers.
For an application form please contact Shirley Kelly at: shirley.kelly@pressassociation.com, or complete one on our website www.becomeareporter.co.uk
Yep, that’s right, you can have this job for a mere £4,999 in fees………..you pay them……!
job 1 (j
b)n.
1. A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one’s trade, occupation, or profession.2. A position in which one is employed.
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June 12, 2009 at 4:08 pm -
Hungarian-American historian emeritus John Lukacs writes a good deal about the “inflation’ of language that, in his perception, accompanied the inflation of currency throughout the late-modern age. For example, in the US, our former state teachers’ colleges — and good they were! — now call themselves “universities” (NO Latin, less Greek…) So now, in the dim & grim postmodern slough and sinking fast, why are we surprised at the outright orwellian REVERSAL of meaning?
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June 12, 2009 at 4:29 pm -
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June 12, 2009 at 5:22 pm -
This is quite common. I receive emails from a few websites dealing with graduate employment, and at least a third of the ‘jobs’ advertised are actually courses.
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June 12, 2009 at 5:23 pm -
Yep
It’s like Hazel Blears’ apology for her apology – when will it ever end??? And dn’t get me on my hobby horse about the NHS and hospital appointments, please……:0)
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June 12, 2009 at 5:41 pm -
I am from Liverpool, but I worked in Manchester for some years, and I never really thought why that was until now. It’s sad, but true … there is hardly any jobs there. Now, I may be biased, but Liverpool is a beautiful city (once you eradicate the chavs), inasmuch as Manchester, Edinburgh, London and Buenos Aires are: they all have their own quality (for the record, I am not living in Liverpool at the moment, but my family does).
I feel that Liverpool is always misrepresented by almost everyone, especially on these blogs, but if you look at the city (once again, without the chavs), it has it’s own charm. Like I said, I’m biased, I spent the entirety of my youth there, never travelling until my mid-twenties, but it’s still special to me. The people are really friendly, and compared to the dreaded 80’s, the place is now like Paris or something (exagerration).
The point is this: Liverpool/Merseyside makes it’s own headway. Sometimes the people are bastards (I’ve known some of them personally … James Bulger’s killers etc.), and sometimes, they are known for more positive things … (musicians, artists, etc. I know many of these, too) and I believe that the good outweighs the bad.
I am not a long-time reader here (maybe a month or so), but I respect you, and I enjoy your posts, so thanks for pointing out this rdiculousness, Ms. Raccoon (and try to remember, not all scousers are inbred thieves, who wear shell-suits, say ‘Calm Down!’ and sit around moaning about the dole).
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June 12, 2009 at 5:56 pm -
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June 12, 2009 at 6:32 pm -
It could be worse, you could pay more than that in real terms and find yourself in the back of a truck going to pick vegetables in some rural backwater and being provided with a space on a shed floor, and a bucket of water, food and heating extra.
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June 12, 2009 at 6:49 pm -
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June 12, 2009 at 10:09 pm -
Ahaha … actually my post came off as slightly catty, but it wasn’t supposed to be like that … I read something a few weeks ago on Old Holborn (which is how I found your blog), about social hierarchy, and it was non-too-flattering, but I couldn’t reply because I was in the middle of getting married. I think I had that lingering in my mind because of that.
Anyway,
Greetings! Thanks for not tearing me a new one. haha.
Charger.
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June 12, 2009 at 10:14 pm -
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June 12, 2009 at 10:32 pm -
Yeah, there’s always one.
A swift kick to the nuts usually gentles them down some … should there be a next time, now you know the procedure.
Charger.
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June 12, 2009 at 10:37 pm -
Charger – I’m intrigued to think that you were reading Old Holborn’s blog but couldn’t reply because you were “in the middle of getting married.” Surely there aren’t such things as an Internet Churches or Registery Offices these days?
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June 12, 2009 at 10:43 pm -
Must have been good reception for wi fi.
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June 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm -
I think I’ve just invented the i-Pew.
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June 14, 2009 at 1:36 pm -
Just got around to reading your site, I wonder who you were refering to when you said”come to think of it, they can be lying thieving scumbags
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June 14, 2009 at 1:37 pm
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