Job Centre to modernise - Frictional unemployment

Job centres are set to be modernised by using text messages and the internet to communicate with people who have lost their job during the recession. This strategy aims to reduce frictional unemployment by matching available jobs with people who were unaware of them.

This video from the BBC shows that the job centre is struggling to find jobs for professionals, offering low paid jobs that many feel they are over qualified for. This can be described as voluntary unemployment as there are jobs available but people are unwilling to take them.

This blog provides the beginning to an interesting debate on the best way of reducing current levels of unemployment. Will the improved technology used by the Job Centre help people find the right job or are there simply not the jobs available for professionals who are looking to maintain the higher salaries that they have become accustomed to?