Turning a problem into an opportunity [Independent.ie]
- Published: 11 August 2011
Why Springboard offers a chance to make a start on a new career
THERE is an old saying about not letting a crisis go to waste. It is advice worth heeding for the many thousands of people who lost their jobs in recent years.
Three in four of the almost 450,000 people who are now unemployed have never been out of work before. Many have educational qualifications, from Leaving Certificate up to degree level, and were in highly skilled, well-paid jobs.
Crisis is not too strong a term for what they would have felt in becoming unemployed in the middle of a deep recession.
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