What a turnip for the books as 61,000 Swedes descend on employment office
7 March 2014
If you have ever been inundated with candidates, spare a thought for the staff at an employment office in Sweden after police were forced to break up an angry crowd of jobseekers, when someone in the office invited 61,000 candidates to a recruitment meeting by mistake.
Fri, 7 Mar 2014
If you have ever been inundated with candidates, spare a thought for the staff at an employment office in Sweden after police were forced to break up an angry crowd of jobseekers, when someone in the office invited 61,000 candidates to a recruitment meeting by mistake.
The email for the meeting should have gone out to about 1,000 jobseekers, but instead went to all unemployed people registered in Stockholm, police said.
Hundreds of hopefuls crammed into the alley where the office is based, while many spilled into the adjacent street – a main thoroughfare that goes through downtown Stockholm
Police spokesman Ulf Lindgren told the AP news agency that several thousand people arrived for the event, which was intended to be an opportunity for unemployed people to meet potential employers.
If you have ever been inundated with candidates, spare a thought for the staff at an employment office in Sweden after police were forced to break up an angry crowd of jobseekers, when someone in the office invited 61,000 candidates to a recruitment meeting by mistake.
The email for the meeting should have gone out to about 1,000 jobseekers, but instead went to all unemployed people registered in Stockholm, police said.
Hundreds of hopefuls crammed into the alley where the office is based, while many spilled into the adjacent street – a main thoroughfare that goes through downtown Stockholm
Police spokesman Ulf Lindgren told the AP news agency that several thousand people arrived for the event, which was intended to be an opportunity for unemployed people to meet potential employers.
