Young and old struggle to find work in India, Randstad finds

Young and older people alike are finding it hardest to find suitable work, according to Randstad’s Workmonitor survey of the Indian jobs market.
Wed, 31 July 2013Young and older people alike are finding it hardest to find suitable work, according to Randstad’s Workmonitor survey of the Indian jobs market.

The survey reveals that 66% of young people and 79% of older people in India are struggling to find suitable work. As a consequence, 79% of young people and 71% of older people are being forced to accept jobs below their level of education.

Across all age ranges, 73% of Indians say they would relocate abroad to find a suitable job, far more than the global average of 47%.

Despite the difficulty of finding work, only 76% of those surveyed say they would accept a temporary job. This is lower than the global average of 88%.

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