British people who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic tell their storiesExtend furlough or risk mass unemployment, Sunak told‘We want to be busy’: Tottenham battles Covid-19 recessionUnemployment: what we can learn from British historyUK’s Covid-19 unemployment crisis in six chartsThe Guardian spoke to people who have been made unemployed due to Covid and their experiences of trying to find work. Continue reading...

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The tech sector is growing, but a lack of understanding about roles in the industry may be preventing women from joining. So what are the jobs, where are they, and how can women get started?Amid the scorn heaped upon the use of “Fatima”, the ballet dancer central to a government advertising campaign (it pictured her in her ballet clothes, with “Fatima’s next job could be in cyber”), an important point was missed, say tech professionals.A lack of tech knowhow is costing the UK £63bn a year, according to the CBI, and there are an estimated 600,000 vacancies in digital. Continue reading...

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