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The job market is truly dire for graduates and people at the moment.

I’m sure the young will come to loathe HR professionals and recruiters as much as I do, from my time contracting.

https://x.com/mcrj1996/status/1955673544807022888?s=61

Most HR professionals and recruiters are both dense and lazy. They don't understand a candidates potential fit unless it precisely matches the JD, and even then they expect you to do all the qualification and work for the role, before taking their 10-20% commission if successful.

I've got all my good jobs through personal references in my network.

Nepo baby?

No, these are people I've worked with in my professional career who know me and what I can do and move around different companies.

This is quite normal.

They can introduce and position you credibly with their new firm, and highlight just what a good candidate you are and what you can do - before you even get to the interview.

The job market is truly dire for graduates and people at the moment.

I’m sure the young will come to loathe HR professionals and recruiters as much as I do, from my time contracting.

https://x.com/mcrj1996/status/1955673544807022888?s=61

LOL at that tweet:-
Can I just say on behalf of taxpayers everywhere how delighted I am to have been able to prevent this young lady from having to debase herself by working in a café and instead buy international air tickets.

This is a global phenomenon: here, America, Australia, India. Graduate unemployment, that is, not tone-deaf Times articles.

As ever, our rulers are behind the curve and trying to force the long-term unemployed or sick off the dole when it would be better for employers and employees alike to give any jobs to people who are actively looking.

A valid point.

A further one might be that clamping down on immigration has been associated with a rise, rather than fall in UK unemployment. Similar in the USA too.

It's almost as if the economy is not a zero sum game.

It saddens me, but this site - this pub - is dying. Visitors are in major decline

The deadly PB centrist Dads chased away @williamglenn and he has not returned. And he was an absolutely key, crucial commenter. You stupid fucking fools banned him, simply because you didn't like his rightwing opinions. And now look where we are. He didn't even break any rules - he was banned for "wrongthink"

You are utter fucking imbeciles. You have turned this place into Bluesky. And no one uses Bluesky. Morons

I don’t know if that is the reason, but it does feel like the peak is behind us. In the early to mid 2010s, leading up to the referendum it was brilliant on here, despite me being banned about a hundred times for one thing or another.

Richard Nabavi, Tim, Antifrank, Southam Observer, Charles, Mike Smithson, Plato; these were big characters that have been written out or left and not replaced. Can’t think why really, but it is a shame

The site was at its worse during the 2024 Presidential election, when anything anti-Trump was cheered and anything pro-Trump (i.e. that he might win) was rounded on and shouted down such that some people stopped posting.

That was totally unforgivable. It's the sort of thing that could have led to a splinter site - the "real" politicalbetting.com - as the original one was recognised to have lost its way.

But don't you want to know who you are betting against so you have more satisfaction when you take their money ('cos it's not the bookies) ?

Raises eyebrow...

Public ‘misled’ over fall in NHS waiting lists

Figures fell because patients who had died, moved abroad or no longer needed treatment were removed from lists, Quality Watch report finds
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/13/labour-misled-public-nhs-waiting-lists-fall-deaths/

Exclusive: Ministers using ‘misleading indicator’ to champion waiting list reduction

The recent reduction in the waiting list repeatedly cited by ministers as evidence of the NHS’s recovery has given a “misleading” impression to the public about the service’s underlying performance, two leading think tanks have warned.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/exclusive-ministers-using-misleading-indicator-to-champion-waiting-list-reduction/7039851.article

Isn't that perfectly normal? I.e. people will die or move, or be removed from waiting lists all the time. Now, is it possible there was a one-off big purge? Sure, that's possible. But waiting lists are always going to be affected by people moving and dying.

Yes, it is perfectly normal and happens all the time. One of the roles of our waiting list managers is to regularly clean up the data.

It saddens me, but this site - this pub - is dying. Visitors are in major decline

The deadly PB centrist Dads chased away @williamglenn and he has not returned. And he was an absolutely key, crucial commenter. You stupid fucking fools banned him, simply because you didn't like his rightwing opinions. And now look where we are. He didn't even break any rules - he was banned for "wrongthink"

You are utter fucking imbeciles. You have turned this place into Bluesky. And no one uses Bluesky. Morons

I don’t know if that is the reason, but it does feel like the peak is behind us. In the early to mid 2010s, leading up to the referendum it was brilliant on here, despite me being banned about a hundred times for one thing or another.

Richard Nabavi, Tim, Antifrank, Southam Observer, Charles, Mike Smithson, Plato; these were big characters that have been written out or left and not replaced. Can’t think why really, but it is a shame

The site was at its worse during the 2024 Presidential election, when anything anti-Trump was cheered and anything pro-Trump (i.e. that he might win) was rounded on and shouted down such that some people stopped posting.

That was totally unforgivable. It's the sort of thing that could have led to a splinter site - the "real" politicalbetting.com - as the original one was recognised to have lost its way.

It saddens me, but this site - this pub - is dying. Visitors are in major decline

The deadly PB centrist Dads chased away @williamglenn and he has not returned. And he was an absolutely key, crucial commenter. You stupid fucking fools banned him, simply because you didn't like his rightwing opinions. And now look where we are. He didn't even break any rules - he was banned for "wrongthink"

You are utter fucking imbeciles. You have turned this place into Bluesky. And no one uses Bluesky. Morons

I don’t know if that is the reason, but it does feel like the peak is behind us. In the early to mid 2010s, leading up to the referendum it was brilliant on here, despite me being banned about a hundred times for one thing or another.

Richard Nabavi, Tim, Antifrank, Southam Observer, Charles, Mike Smithson, Plato; these were big characters that have been written out or left and not replaced. Can’t think why really, but it is a shame

The site was at its worse during the 2024 Presidential election, when anything anti-Trump was cheered and anything pro-Trump (i.e. that he might win) was rounded on and shouted down such that some people stopped posting.

That was totally unforgivable. It's the sort of thing that could have led to a splinter site - the "real" politicalbetting.com - as the original one was recognised to have lost its way.

The 2024 presidential election, especially that rogue Iowa poll, was crazy. Poor old William Glenn took a lot of crap from Kamala fanboys simply wishcasting.

He was quite right too.

Any comment that Trump may win was just dumped on, usually by the same handful of obsessive people.

It saddens me, but this site - this pub - is dying. Visitors are in major decline

The deadly PB centrist Dads chased away @williamglenn and he has not returned. And he was an absolutely key, crucial commenter. You stupid fucking fools banned him, simply because you didn't like his rightwing opinions. And now look where we are. He didn't even break any rules - he was banned for "wrongthink"

You are utter fucking imbeciles. You have turned this place into Bluesky. And no one uses Bluesky. Morons

I don’t know if that is the reason, but it does feel like the peak is behind us. In the early to mid 2010s, leading up to the referendum it was brilliant on here, despite me being banned about a hundred times for one thing or another.

Richard Nabavi, Tim, Antifrank, Southam Observer, Charles, Mike Smithson, Plato; these were big characters that have been written out or left and not replaced. Can’t think why really, but it is a shame

The site was at its worse during the 2024 Presidential election, when anything anti-Trump was cheered and anything pro-Trump (i.e. that he might win) was rounded on and shouted down such that some people stopped posting.

That was totally unforgivable. It's the sort of thing that could have led to a splinter site - the "real" politicalbetting.com - as the original one was recognised to have lost its way.