6 January 2010

Unemployment still to peak says CIPD

Unemployment is set to reach 2.8 million in 2010, according to the latest forecast from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

The organisation believes unemployment will continue to rise for the first six months of the New Year, despite the recovery in the UK economy.

The total number unemployed in the UK currently stands at 2.49 million - or 7.9% of the population - following hundreds of thousands of job losses in 2009 with a further 250,000 redundancies expected this year.

Dr John Philpott, chief economic adviser to the CIPD, is reported as saying it was a remarkable that unemployment had not taken off further, given the scale of the downturn.

Although the forecast is more optimistic than previous predictions - in 2009 the CIPD had said it expected unemployment to peak at 3.2 million - 2010 looks set to be another difficult year for jobseekers.

As businesses emerge from the recession, human resources departments will be able to pick and choose the best candidates and will be using the latest recruitment techniques to find them - including psychometric testing.

Many employers from Micos and SME to major corporates are already using psychometric testing and this trend looks set to continue in 2010.

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