Back in February John Key said:
“But there are plenty of jobs out there for people if they look really hard.”
312 people looked really hard for this job:
One bar job advertised, 312 applicants
A Whangarei bar owner got more than he expected when he advertised a job vacancy and more than 300 people applied.
Bar owner Phil Sentch was looking for someone to fill a bar staff position, pay slightly above average, at his Rynoz bar. He was expecting 50 applications when he advertised the position on social networking site Facebook but ended up with 312.
The flood of applicants for a single job reflects the tight job market in Northland, with thousands of people looking for work. Mr Sentch said people were constantly visiting his central city bar looking for work.
Similar examples have been reported before, but of course most will be going unreported.
High levels of unemployment in NZ are both a condemnation of the Nats’ bungling of the economy, and a reality check on their perpetual grandstanding beneficiary bashing. Labour and the Greens need to be ready with a real job creation programme – ready right now so that they can hit the ground running in government in 2014.
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