With job cuts continuing to strike fear in all but the smuggest, a tiny ray of hope struggles through the gloom. According to recruitment firm The Synergy Group, Britain is experiencing a boom in the recruitment of 'traffic enforcement professionals' - that's traffic wardens to you and I. Phew, that's a relief!
The Synergy Group predicts a dramatic increase - this year - in the number of job opportunities in local authority parking enforcement and traffic management.
Even better, they conducted a national survey, in order to measure the public's attitude to this potential influx of traffic wardens. A bewildering 83% said that parking attendants are necessary to the smooth-running of city centres across the UK. But 53% want traffic wardens to be more understanding, and 34% want them to be more accurate in their work.
Strangest of all, 13% of respondents want more women patrolling the streets, as they're convinced the fairer sex is more lenient.
Kieran Ryan, managing director at The Synergy Group, said: "Traditionally it has been challenging to place candidates within traffic enforcement roles due to negative and unfounded stereotypes associated with the profession".
I'm not really sure what these findings tell us, but at the very least they present a new career option for all those unemployed graduates we're always hearing about.
