For more career advice, visit the Career Energy homepage

Earlier this week the government announced that it was overhauling Job Centres to make them more relevant to managerial and executive staff. Part of this strategy is to including co-opting recruitment consultants to help out. I have argued before that Job Centres are an outmoded institution; neither employers nor employees have faith in them and an overhaul needs to go far beyond drafting in unqualified sales people from the recruitment sector. But the underlying question is, should government be involved at all in the job market. And if so, how? (more…)