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  • noun Plural form of jobseeker.

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Examples

  • Graeme Cook, an analyst with the Institute for Public Policy Research, a centre-left think-tank, believes that the coalition should provide state-sponsored jobs to ensure that young and long-term jobseekers don't stay in the cold for too long.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • The next six tips cover areas that long-term jobseekers do well to revisit to jump start a stalled job search.

    American Chronicle 2008

  • Reports say that a representative from a fake site is calling jobseekers who register their CVs online and offering courses and help in exchange for a payment.

    ENN.ie 2010

  • Thus a person living on 'jobseekers' living at home who pops a sprog will get ... jobseekers.

    Appeasement and its Myths Newmania 2007

  • What to make of the finding that employers are 50 percent more likely to call jobseekers for interviews when their resumes have "white-sounding" names (e.g.,

    Accusing someone of racism squashes the likelihood of fruitful dialogue like a bug 2010

  • If the job is turned down they will lose benefits such as jobseekers allowance.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • The reason the government has had to borrow ever larger amounts since 2008 is that, in a recession, tax receipts fall while transfer payments such as jobseekers' allowance rise.

    The Guardian World News George Irvin 2010

  • If we did not have 3 million or so foreign 'jobseekers' here in the UK then there would be more chance of British ones being able to find a job, and of British benefit junkies being encouraged/forced to find a job.

    The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum Lawrence Kay 2009

  • "jobseekers" and employment offices as "jobcentres", did much to de-stigmatise and, in an odd way, de-glamorise (for those who idealised the so-called authentic working-class experience) the experience of being on the dole.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Tim Lott 2010

  • He said one year was the right balance between restricting costs and allowing people to adapt to their changed circumstances and was double the time allowed for contributory jobseekers' allowance.

    Lords inflict triple welfare bill defeat on government 2012

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