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Linkedin sent me this email today. Clearly they haven’t spotted my retirement. I was just about to delete it when I thought ‘700 new jobs in Kilmarnock’, isn’t that good news of the kind we don’t often hear about Killie. I had a quick look and found there were a lot of pretty reasonable jobs in the list.
The employment rate for East Ayrshire is only 68.6% compared with the Scottish rate of 72.9%
Sounds like a strong case for more training opportunities and/or immigration? Hopefully this announcement from the Scottish Government funded, Skills Development Scotland on the 5th March suggests that the former is being taken seriously.
‘Up to 27,000 young people will benefit from apprenticeship employment opportunities this year thanks to business and industry. The new figure is up on last year’s target of 26,000 apprenticeship starts and is a step towards the Scottish Government’s commitment to 30,000 starts per year by 2020.’
Talking-up Scotland 
John done a Google on ” New jobs Kilmarnock”……”Jobs Announcement Kilmarnock” ……. And …”700 new jobs Kilmarnock” All that’s coming is 400 jobs announced in April 14. Or 700 jobs going at Diageo
And what is really making me question the jobs is, The BBC haven’t mentioned this.
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Yeh it can’t be true then.
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