Some graduates may opten stead for other high tech sectors that seem less vulnerable to economic wings. In britain, in march, there were an estimated 67 thousand more public sector employees in the country than a year earlier. And applications for government jobs rose by nearly a third at the start of the demic. But if graduates keep moving towards those safe government jobs, say, presumably it leaves a smaller talent pool for private employers.
A ceasefire is holding after a weekend of deadly strikes. We ask why Hamas, the Palestinian movement that controls Gaza,
did not get involved. As Generation Z tentatively enters the workforce, they are
clamouring for more flexibility and money than their forebears enjoyed. And reflecting on the flawed but brilliant poet Philip Larkin on the
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