:00:10. > :00:13.Welcome to Wales Today. We're live from the Royal Mail sorting office
:00:13. > :00:15.at Baglan. Business is booming here in the run-up to Christmas, but the
:00:15. > :00:19.unemployment figures out today show the picture across the country
:00:19. > :00:24.isn't quite so healthy. The Business Minister tells me about
:00:24. > :00:28.her vision for the Welsh economy. We talk about statistics, and I
:00:28. > :00:34.think we have to recognise behind every statistic is a human being.
:00:34. > :00:38.It is very hard out there when people are looking for jobs.
:00:38. > :00:42.People are chasing jobs paid for by the public purse, like teachers.
:00:42. > :00:45.We'll be finding out how difficult that is.
:00:45. > :00:48.Without getting that fulltime post as soon as you finish your degree,
:00:48. > :00:58.it puts a stop on things like saving up for a house, paying your
:00:58. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:14.Also in the programme tonight: Operations are suspended at
:01:14. > :01:18.Llandough hospital after thieves stole copper cables.
:01:18. > :01:28.And a few places have already had a dusting of snow, but we could be in
:01:28. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:36.Good evening and welcome to Wales Today. Tonight, we have the second
:01:36. > :01:43.of our programmes looking at how we are coping in the run-up to what,
:01:43. > :01:46.for many, will be a difficult Christmas. Our particular focus is
:01:46. > :01:49.on jobs. We're at a parcel-sorting office outside Port Talbot, where
:01:49. > :01:57.they've been bucking the trend and taken on around 100 extra staff in
:01:57. > :02:02.the run-up to Christmas. But across the country, the employment figure
:02:02. > :02:07.isn't so good. In the next half an hour, we'll be hearing people's
:02:07. > :02:10.stories of how they're struggling to find work. I'll also be joined
:02:10. > :02:16.by a careers adviser hoping to offer some help in today's job
:02:16. > :02:22.market. Because today's figures make the situation clear. 133,000
:02:22. > :02:32.people are out of work in Wales. That's up 11,000 over the last
:02:32. > :02:36.three months. It's not all gloom, though, as Caroline Evans reports.
:02:36. > :02:41.At this printing firm, they have the vacancies, but they are
:02:41. > :02:47.reluctant to fill the war. When companies are this careful,
:02:47. > :02:52.Jobseeker's can the cost. We are obviously conscious of our control
:02:52. > :02:57.of our costs. People tend to feature in that. It tends to be the
:02:57. > :03:02.easy option for companies to look at people only. We are targeting
:03:02. > :03:06.are excess costs without people, that we can control. Today, the
:03:06. > :03:11.number of them in plight people in those is a 1000 more than in the
:03:11. > :03:16.same period last year. We must remember it is against a very
:03:16. > :03:21.difficult economic background. The number of Jobseeker's claiming did
:03:21. > :03:25.decline, and the economic inactivity figure has improved.
:03:25. > :03:28.There is no doubt that we Adelaide difficult place. Do anything we can
:03:29. > :03:33.do is to stick to the court and work with the Welsh Government to
:03:33. > :03:38.try and improve these figures. out today are figures which measure
:03:38. > :03:47.our national wealth. They show the Welsh economy did outperform the UK
:03:47. > :03:55.in 2010. The total value of goods and services produced in Wales was
:03:55. > :04:04.�45.5 billion. But we're starting from a low point. Our economic
:04:04. > :04:08.performance per head is the lowest in the UK. She BA is the total of
:04:08. > :04:12.everything we earn in salaries and what we produce as a mission. Last
:04:12. > :04:17.year, we did quite well. We close the gap on the rest of the UK.
:04:17. > :04:24.Sadly, we are still at a low place on average. There is much more for
:04:24. > :04:27.us to do. Green energy is one sector which ministers hope could
:04:27. > :04:34.help grow the economy. That is why the Welsh Government has given �2
:04:34. > :04:39.million per to help swear let's set up a smart energy training centre.
:04:39. > :04:45.Here, people will learn how to install solar panels. When it is up
:04:45. > :04:50.and running in six months' time, it will create 250 jobs. It is a more
:04:50. > :04:55.difficult climate for us to working. That is why I think this is a great
:04:55. > :04:59.triumph to bring this opportunity. A lot of people are after this kind
:04:59. > :05:04.of investment. The green technology, the green skills, that is where
:05:04. > :05:08.people see the opportunities for the future. Right now, it seems we
:05:08. > :05:18.need all the opportunities we can get. Today, this travel company
:05:18. > :05:22.announced it is closing three stores in Wales.
:05:22. > :05:32.Heulyn Gwyn Davies is from the Royal Mail. You've taken on 100
:05:32. > :05:39.extra staff here. Tell us, how competitive was it to get a job?
:05:39. > :05:44.have got 175 people processing nearly 300,000 items last night.
:05:44. > :05:49.Across South Wales, we have got 500 seasonal jobs. They have been
:05:49. > :05:54.competitive. We take great pride in the way we deliver and collect mail.
:05:54. > :05:58.Each and every one of those people have been selected to ensure we can
:05:58. > :06:05.deliver Christmas for our customers. Are they people from the locality?
:06:05. > :06:09.They are people from all areas, all ages. We have got one person who is
:06:09. > :06:12.catching three trains to get here every day to work his shift. We
:06:13. > :06:17.have got people out there to ensure we can deliver the Christmas
:06:17. > :06:22.bareback. We will be expecting you to take on extra staff at this time
:06:22. > :06:28.of year. What will happen for the extra 11 months? Are you going to
:06:28. > :06:33.have to shed the work force? What we have done across the UK is
:06:33. > :06:39.recruit up to 18,000 people. We have got a massive the Christmas
:06:39. > :06:43.mail bag of over 2 billion items. After Christmas, we try to continue
:06:43. > :06:45.to invest in our workforce. We will be making those decisions in due
:06:45. > :06:47.course. Not surprisingly, after today's
:06:47. > :06:50.unemployment figures, opposition parties were quick to criticise the
:06:50. > :07:00.Labour Welsh Government. Earlier today, I asked the Business
:07:00. > :07:02.
:07:02. > :07:06.Minister Edwina Hart for her reaction. We have to recognise that
:07:06. > :07:11.behind every statistic there is a human being. It is very hard when
:07:11. > :07:15.people are looking for jobs. We are looking at the Training agenda. We
:07:15. > :07:20.have short-term measures in terms of the economy, many for business
:07:20. > :07:26.in terms of loans, grants. The issue for us is what measures can
:07:26. > :07:30.you take? The economic issues are outside our hands. It is a question
:07:30. > :07:36.of the fence we make available. That we are seen as open for
:07:36. > :07:41.business. How much can you do? Your budget is under �300 million.
:07:41. > :07:47.think we made available what we can put in, which is in -- which is
:07:47. > :07:50.important don't. The problem is about uncertainty which comes from
:07:50. > :07:54.the issues across the world. You're very good to look at the issues
:07:54. > :07:59.across Europe. How important is inward investment and what is the
:07:59. > :08:04.best way of going around that? Should there be a return to
:08:04. > :08:10.independent bodies? Everybody likes to ask that question. People have a
:08:10. > :08:14.very mixed opinions about it. There will not be any return to that. But
:08:14. > :08:18.some of the good practices are being returned to my department. We
:08:19. > :08:23.are focusing on a lot of relationship managers. We will have
:08:23. > :08:26.key areas that we are going to developing terms of trade. The
:08:26. > :08:33.First Minister has been clear of that at what looking for cows we
:08:33. > :08:36.have got to have. There is a role for supporting indigenous Welsh
:08:36. > :08:40.companies, but it is important to recognise if there is an
:08:40. > :08:44.opportunity of there, we have got to rabbit. I recognise that you
:08:44. > :08:50.have got to talk to the people. If you look at my record in terms of
:08:50. > :08:55.war I have involved in discussions, it is not civil servants. It is
:08:55. > :09:05.external expertise coming to advise us to track the way forward.
:09:05. > :09:06.
:09:06. > :09:10.Edwina Hart talking to me earlier on. She told me she would be me
:09:10. > :09:13.think the UK Business Secretary in Wales tomorrow. One big question
:09:13. > :09:18.facing the Government is how the private sector could plug the gap
:09:18. > :09:21.created by publicly-funded jobs going. Today's figures show 9,000
:09:21. > :09:29.fewer of us work in the public sector than a year ago. Roger
:09:29. > :09:35.Pinney looks at the impact that's having. It is getting cold out
:09:35. > :09:38.there. The best hope we have is to wrap up warm. If a chill wind blows
:09:38. > :09:45.through the economy, it is not so easy to deal with. The global
:09:45. > :09:49.downturn is hitting most of us. Spending cuts for mostly on the
:09:49. > :09:53.public sector. What do we mean by the public sector? It is people who
:09:53. > :09:58.empty are Burns, police our streets, look after us when we are real. We
:09:58. > :10:03.are seeing a fall in the number of people employed by Welsh and local
:10:03. > :10:12.Government. Recruitment has all but dried up. That is especially tough
:10:12. > :10:17.on those at the start of their careers. By now, this lady had to
:10:17. > :10:23.have a full-time a teaching post. But she has got is a contract as a
:10:23. > :10:26.teaching assistant at this school. By met her working one to one with
:10:26. > :10:31.a pupil in the school's communication unit for children
:10:31. > :10:36.with autism. For two was a week, she does the job she trained for,
:10:36. > :10:39.teaching religious education. the cuts in the public sector, I
:10:39. > :10:43.think teaching will be the one that gets hit the most. You
:10:43. > :10:49.automatically think when you to your degree, you will get your own
:10:49. > :10:56.house, he will be able to afford to to start a mortgage, but obviously,
:10:56. > :11:01.without getting that full-time post, it does put a stop on things like
:11:01. > :11:07.saving up for a house, paying your pension, things like that. This is
:11:07. > :11:11.better than working at a supermarket. But for her, to have
:11:11. > :11:18.this experience, she should really be teaching. She should be using
:11:18. > :11:23.her expertise in classrooms and been paid a teaching rate. Last
:11:23. > :11:28.year, the number of advertise teaching post fell by 20%. This man
:11:28. > :11:34.has not started looking for a job. He is still a trainee teacher now
:11:34. > :11:38.on teaching practice. He has come to teaching later after a first
:11:38. > :11:42.career with the Environment Agency. Not so long ago, he would have
:11:42. > :11:48.expected to more less walking to a full-time post. He is optimistic,
:11:48. > :11:52.but he knows he will have to lower his sights. It is going to be very
:11:52. > :11:57.difficult. It is a competitive market. There are a lot of teachers
:11:57. > :12:01.who are finding it hard to find work. Having said that, you have to
:12:01. > :12:06.be realistic and you have to be flexible. He may have to move
:12:06. > :12:10.around the country to find work. It may be a case that I will end up
:12:10. > :12:15.doing supplied work with the hope that eventually, that temporary
:12:15. > :12:21.contract will become a permanent one. That kind of uncertainty is
:12:21. > :12:27.very new. It is borne out of real change. More of us working the
:12:27. > :12:31.public sector than in the UK as a whole. Through the 1919 said and er
:12:31. > :12:36.the 2000, the number of public sector jobs grew steadily, peaking
:12:36. > :12:42.in 2009. Since then, the trend has gone into reverse and there is a
:12:42. > :12:48.forecast that 21,000 more public sector jobs will go by 2015.
:12:48. > :12:52.have lost something like 4,000 people in the last two years.
:12:52. > :12:58.Unfortunately, the employment of Ian people is starting to dry up.
:12:58. > :13:02.That is been reflected in the unemployment state -- statistics. I
:13:02. > :13:06.do not think the future looks particularly bright. The worrying
:13:06. > :13:16.thing is that long-term trends do not suggest any great signs of
:13:16. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:27.We want to see the private sector help the public sector become more
:13:27. > :13:30.efficient, so you have an efficient public sector and more importantly,
:13:31. > :13:36.private sector growth and wealth creation hopefully within local
:13:36. > :13:40.businesses. Will private business be able to absorb those jobs being
:13:40. > :13:45.lost in the public sector we have come to rely own for so much? The
:13:45. > :13:50.debate rests on what we can afford, or rather afford to do without. A
:13:50. > :13:54.chill wind, indeed. We are joined by an expert now.
:13:54. > :13:59.Lesley Rees is from Careers Wales. Thank you for joining us this
:13:59. > :14:04.evening. We saw teachers struggling to find work in that report. What
:14:04. > :14:07.advice can you give? There are a couple of key messages. One is to
:14:07. > :14:11.get yourself a CV and get it does well prepared as possible because
:14:11. > :14:15.it is the building block to a application process. If you are
:14:16. > :14:20.worried that there are gaps in your CV, whether it is skills,
:14:20. > :14:25.qualifications or experience, and I think that is the major one,
:14:25. > :14:29.particularly for 16-18 year-olds and up to 24 year-olds, the gap in
:14:29. > :14:33.experience, look up voluntary work, use the time wisely, see if the
:14:33. > :14:37.voluntary sector will to be some opportunities. How useful his
:14:37. > :14:41.voluntary work, very briefly? shows you can do a job, it gives
:14:41. > :14:45.you a reference and the opportunity to save you have attended and
:14:45. > :14:49.helped people, worked as a team and identified you had skills which
:14:49. > :14:52.previously you didn't have. I think the main thing there is that it
:14:52. > :14:57.gives you that background and the opportunity to show potential
:14:57. > :15:02.employers that you can do something. We will hear more from Lesley later
:15:02. > :15:05.in the programme, but there was positive news in Newport today,
:15:05. > :15:09.where a multi-million pound shopping planned to build a new
:15:09. > :15:13.complex in the city centre was submitted to the council. This is
:15:14. > :15:17.how the Friars Walk development in John Frost Square could look come
:15:18. > :15:21.up with shops, restaurants and a cinema. The original plans were
:15:21. > :15:25.shelved in 2000 the 9th when the deal collapsed, but the new
:15:25. > :15:29.developers hope that it planning is approved, they could start work on
:15:29. > :15:33.site early in 2013 -- shelved in 2009.
:15:33. > :15:38.And tomorrow we will get the first clues of just how tough this
:15:38. > :15:43.Christmas is going to beat, but because the retail index comes out,
:15:43. > :15:48.which shows how much we have been spending on the High Street. From a
:15:48. > :15:51.high and boutique high streets like here in that Narberth, to the more
:15:51. > :15:55.bucket-and-spade seaside report -- resorts like here, a few miles down
:15:55. > :16:01.the road in Tenby, I will find out how shopkeepers are weathering the
:16:01. > :16:04.storm, and what the polyp -- politicians can do to help. That is
:16:04. > :16:08.Wales Today tomorrow evening at 6:30pm, but there will be more from
:16:08. > :16:18.us on the employment picture across the country on this programme later
:16:18. > :16:20.
:16:20. > :16:23.The rest of the day's news now. All operations at Llandough Hospital in
:16:23. > :16:28.the Vale of Glamorgan have been cancelled today because copper
:16:28. > :16:31.cables from a back up generator were stolen last night. 81
:16:31. > :16:37.operations, including eight for cancer patients, have been
:16:37. > :16:40.postponed, but they will resume as normal tomorrow.
:16:40. > :16:44.Operations like this are routine in our hospitals, but today at
:16:44. > :16:48.Llandough, every single one, including breast cancer surgery,
:16:49. > :16:52.had to be cancelled. The problem was that 100 beetles -- metres of
:16:52. > :16:56.copper cable have been stolen from a back up generator, meaning one
:16:56. > :16:59.power cut and there would be no electricity for the hospital.
:16:59. > :17:04.Despite the best efforts of staff here this morning, they didn't
:17:04. > :17:08.manage to get the new generator installing dashed installed in time
:17:08. > :17:12.for afternoon surgeries. In total that means 81 operations had to be
:17:12. > :17:16.cancelled, which affects eight cancer patients. Am absolutely
:17:17. > :17:20.appalled, because what has happened could potentially put patients'
:17:20. > :17:23.lives at risk, and I think it is really important that the people
:17:23. > :17:28.who took this copper cable understand the seriousness of what
:17:28. > :17:32.they have done. Metal theft is a growing problem. Just last month,
:17:32. > :17:37.nearly 300 metres of copper cable were stolen from BBC Wales in
:17:37. > :17:42.Llandaff. We are looking at �30,000 worth of cable at replacement value,
:17:42. > :17:46.plus the Labour and associated services and personnel needed to
:17:46. > :17:49.bring the services back up to where they should be. Those who work with
:17:50. > :17:54.metal dealers say they are finding it difficult to control what ends
:17:54. > :17:58.up in their scrapyards. I know the boys in the battle game, they are
:17:58. > :18:03.doing the best they can. They could only take a registration, urbane,
:18:03. > :18:07.and if the person is lying to them, they cannot do anything else -- a
:18:07. > :18:12.game. Operations will begin tomorrow again at Llandough, but
:18:12. > :18:15.surgeons stuff is the task of rescheduling all 81 procedures. --
:18:15. > :18:19.the task surgeons face. They hope they will be seen before Christmas
:18:19. > :18:22.but there are no guarantees. The Education Minister has
:18:22. > :18:26.announced a review of the exam qualifications market in Wales
:18:26. > :18:33.after claims examiners working for the de BGC held seminars in which
:18:33. > :18:35.they told teachers which questions to expect. The WJ EC's says its own
:18:35. > :18:39.investigation shows exams were not compromised.
:18:39. > :18:43.The deputy leader of Cardiff Council has been reinstated as a
:18:43. > :18:46.member of Plaid Cymru. Neil McEvoy was suspended after using Facebook
:18:46. > :18:51.to accuse a women's aid group of supporting mothers to break court
:18:51. > :18:54.orders, writing that it was publicly-funded child abuse. He has
:18:54. > :18:57.apologised and be given a formal warning.
:18:57. > :19:01.Restaurants, takeaways and supermarkets could soon be required
:19:02. > :19:04.by law to display their food hygiene ratings. The Welsh
:19:04. > :19:09.Government says it will give customers more information about
:19:09. > :19:16.where they eat or buy food. At the moment, businesses do not need to
:19:16. > :19:20.make their rating public. Matthew Richards reports from Monday the.
:19:20. > :19:24.-- from Llandudno. When you place a food order, what
:19:24. > :19:27.is not on the menu is the standard of hygiene you can expect. There
:19:27. > :19:31.was government wants to make businesses like this Llandudno tea
:19:31. > :19:35.room display the score from a council check up. 5 is very good
:19:35. > :19:39.and zero means urgent improvement is needed. It is a win-win for
:19:39. > :19:42.businesses and consumers. Consumers can make informed decisions about
:19:43. > :19:47.where they eat and businesses can show their standards and aspire to
:19:47. > :19:50.standards and ensure they have the fire star ratings we want to see.
:19:50. > :19:57.All 22 local authorities inspect every business which sells food,
:19:57. > :20:06.and give ratings. Customers don't know about these. They don't know
:20:06. > :20:10.and the -- these things. This is to give say food to the public.
:20:10. > :20:15.Matthew Richards does Inspector -- inspections in Conwy. Cleanliness
:20:15. > :20:18.is very important for us. We look at cleaning systems, whether
:20:18. > :20:23.sanitise there is in use, particularly on food preparation
:20:23. > :20:26.services. Four people including Karen Morrisroe became ill with it
:20:26. > :20:30.E-coli after eating at the Llay Fish Bar in Wrexham which had a
:20:30. > :20:34.zero hygiene rating from the council. Consumers can soon make
:20:34. > :20:37.more informed decisions. If your local takeaway had a zero you would
:20:37. > :20:40.probably choose not to eat there. At the moment it is much more
:20:41. > :20:44.difficult. You have to go to the website to look at the food hygiene
:20:44. > :20:48.ratings. If the track -- draft plans get the go-ahead we'll soon
:20:48. > :20:51.find out of the food we eat makes the grade.
:20:51. > :20:55.75 years ago 11 men from Swansea risked their lives by volunteering
:20:55. > :21:00.to join the Spanish civil war in the fight against fascism. Three
:21:00. > :21:04.would never return. Today their relatives held a ceremony in their
:21:04. > :21:10.home city where a plaque was unveiled in their memory.
:21:10. > :21:15.It is 1937, and 23-year-old Morgan Havard, seen here on the far-right,
:21:15. > :21:20.is one of the 2500 volunteers from Britain and Ireland who sneaked
:21:20. > :21:24.across the Pyrenees to Spain and joined the fight against General
:21:24. > :21:29.Franco's fascists. To destruction of Spaniards on both sides,
:21:29. > :21:32.fighting for the freedom of their troubled land. Around 170 men from
:21:32. > :21:38.south Wales, mainly miners and other members of the car biggest
:21:38. > :21:46.party, made the gruelling journey. It had to be quite Ackland a
:21:46. > :21:51.starring journey across to Spain, and what they did was -- a cut the
:21:51. > :21:56.Steininger the cover they had to go to Cardiff, the left-wing bookshop,
:21:56. > :22:01.and the password was, I want a word with Mr Brown. Then when they had a
:22:01. > :22:07.word with Mr Brown, who was the bookshop manager, they were then
:22:08. > :22:12.given money to get a ticket to go to London.
:22:12. > :22:17.You Mr Havard, from Craig Cefn Parc, was injured and lost an arm during
:22:17. > :22:22.the battle. Today his daughter was among those at the ceremony in the
:22:22. > :22:27.Civic Centre. It takes people like that, doesn't it? With a bitter
:22:27. > :22:31.passion and believes, to try to make the world a bit better. You
:22:31. > :22:35.could not ask for a better dad, really, could you? This plot will
:22:35. > :22:38.be here for many years, obviously, and people will never be allowed to
:22:39. > :22:43.forget, Lord Tebbit is very important.
:22:43. > :22:48.Three of the 11 volunteers from Swansea never returned, but the
:22:48. > :22:52.role each of them played now has a permanent memorial in the city.
:22:53. > :23:00.Jenny Rees reporting. Some places have seen a bit of the
:23:00. > :23:04.white stuff. There could be much That is right, Lucy, we could get
:23:04. > :23:08.the first proper snow of the winter tomorrow night. What's going on. If
:23:08. > :23:13.you think the hailstones we've had recently are big, look at this, it
:23:13. > :23:18.fell at Cardiff Airport in July 1968. It is about the size of a
:23:18. > :23:20.tennis ball. Imagine that falling on your car! Tonight more rain and
:23:20. > :23:24.showers on the way, heavy in places with hail and thunder possible,
:23:24. > :23:27.snow in Mid Wales and Montgomeryshire, stung -- strong
:23:27. > :23:31.wind and the south-west and inland temperatures close to freezing with
:23:31. > :23:35.a risk of ice. If you're travelling tomorrow morning be aware that some
:23:35. > :23:40.roads could be a bit slippery. By 8am most of the country should be
:23:40. > :23:44.dry, that goes for most of the North, Powys and the south-east,
:23:44. > :23:49.starting off drive. The few mist and fog patches possible, however
:23:49. > :23:52.in the south-west, showers are likely, affecting Pembrokeshire.
:23:52. > :23:56.Quite windy as well on the coast with temperatures in Cardigan
:23:56. > :24:00.around six Celsius. During the day these showers in the south-west
:24:00. > :24:03.will spread across Wales, mostly rain or hail, a snow confined to
:24:03. > :24:08.the highest ground, I think. Becoming dry for a time but then
:24:08. > :24:14.rain will reach the sound -- Southend West -- south-west before
:24:14. > :24:17.dusk, highs of a doornail Celsius. In the Atlantic more trouble is
:24:17. > :24:23.brewing. This low pressure will turn nasty as it moves north-east
:24:23. > :24:27.towards southern England. Tomorrow night more rain across Wales, and
:24:27. > :24:30.an increasing risk of snow. We could get the first proper snow of
:24:31. > :24:35.the winter, 10 centimetres or 4 inches possible in places, that
:24:35. > :24:38.goes for the South Wales Valleys, Mid Wales and the North could be
:24:38. > :24:42.worst hit so there could well be disruption on Friday morning.
:24:42. > :24:45.Friday itself, the rain and snow will clear and it will brighten up
:24:45. > :24:49.with showers and a brisk and cold north-westerly wind. The weekend
:24:49. > :24:55.will bring a mixture of sunshine and showers, some frost and icy
:24:55. > :25:05.patches as well, so there is wintry weather on the way. Rain and more
:25:05. > :25:09.Lucy. Plenty for the warning. Back now to our top story, the warning
:25:09. > :25:14.about jobs across Wales. Back to Sian in Baglan.
:25:14. > :25:17.I have now moved into the loading area. All these Christmas parcels
:25:17. > :25:21.and letters have been sorted and are being taken to the lorries
:25:21. > :25:26.ready to be taken to people's homes. So some certainty for the people
:25:26. > :25:30.here who have been offered work over Christmas. They included
:25:30. > :25:33.graduates. Many graduates are struggling to find work. Alexander
:25:33. > :25:39.Davies from Swansea has an undergraduate degree and a Masters,
:25:39. > :25:43.but still cannot find a job. The financial crisis at the moment
:25:43. > :25:49.just exacerbates everything so much, because businesses are cutting
:25:49. > :25:54.staff. People don't want to hire people unless they have to. We are
:25:54. > :25:59.at Swansea University at the moment, this is the Vivian tower. I studied
:26:00. > :26:04.psychology and criminology here at university. I graduated in 2009. I
:26:04. > :26:07.have found it difficult and I found it difficult find work at the time.
:26:08. > :26:13.It is very frustrating. I put in three years of work for a degree
:26:13. > :26:17.and put a lot of money in took, and could not find paid work afterwards
:26:17. > :26:22.to make use of my skills -- him as well. It turned out academic at a
:26:22. > :26:25.voluntary job because nobody felt they could employ me. The up --
:26:25. > :26:28.brother prices lower still applying for jobs unpaid work. I couldn't
:26:29. > :26:34.think what I wanted to do for my career so I was applying for non-
:26:34. > :26:38.graduate jobs, jobs at the bottom of the pile of an organisation.
:26:38. > :26:43.Once you have a job it is easy to apply for jobs but you've are
:26:43. > :26:46.continually getting experience -- because you are continually getting
:26:46. > :26:49.experience but breaking in is the hardest thing. The sector I was
:26:49. > :26:53.hopeful for was the public sector, and a lot of people were going for
:26:53. > :26:58.jobs there were not available at all. There was fiercer competition
:26:58. > :27:02.because of that. I have decided to return to university to do a
:27:02. > :27:05.master's in business management. I recently finished that that there
:27:05. > :27:10.way of looking for work again. It is just really difficult at the
:27:10. > :27:14.moment! Regardless of how much experience I have or how much ago,
:27:14. > :27:19.it is quite frustrating, yes, not been able to do that when you are
:27:19. > :27:23.willing to do it. Let's get some final thoughts now
:27:23. > :27:28.from Lesley Rees, R Careers Adviser. We saw what a graduate's story
:27:29. > :27:33.there. What hope is there? The main thing is that there is advice and
:27:33. > :27:36.help out there. Go to a Careers Adviser, whether you're a school
:27:36. > :27:44.leaver or a graduate or had been made redundant, or look at how
:27:44. > :27:50.website, Careers Wales .com, there are examples of CVs and quizzes on
:27:50. > :27:53.how to behave in an interview. There is advice out there. Thank
:27:53. > :27:59.you for joining us and giving us that advice is evening. That is