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A programmer sent 1000 application - no work

AJT | 03.11.2004 12:49 | Culture | Cambridge | London

Finnish programmer from Turku has sent close to 1000 applications. The result was; no work. Finnish IT-business and industry has given its signal to people. Investing into Finnish IT may be a risk at the moment.

Title: A programmer sent 1000 application - no work
Subtitle: Down by the black monday.

Subject: Finnish programmer from Turku has sent close to 1000 applications. The result was; no work. Finnish IT-business and industry has given its signal to people. Investing into Finnish IT may be a risk at the moment.



A PROGRAMMER SENT 1000 APPLICATIONS - NO WORK

FINLAND - 49 year old MSc. Juha Niemelä from Turku has send almost1000 job applications during this autumn without any success.

There simply is no work to offer, he says.

According to Juha Niemelä one thousand applications is very like to some kind of a record in Finland.

Juha Niemenä has taken his degree in Philosophy and masters English, Swedish, French and Spanish languages besides Finnish.

Juha Niemelä suspects, that Finnish labor minister Tarja Filatrov among other decicion makers do not have realistic picture of the emloyment markets.



Abstract from source:  http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=64171

AJT
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