AFP, Rio De Janeiro :
Standing in line outside an employment center in Rio de Janeiro, Thaysa dos Santos says she is ready to accept any job. As one of Brazil’s 13 million unemployed, she says she cannot be “choosy.”
As Latin America’s biggest economy threatens to slide back into recession, just two years after emerging from a devastating crisis, finding work is harder than ever.
“Nowadays it is very difficult,” says dos Santos, 27, a former office assistant who has been looking for a full-time job for three months.
“People can’t be choosy. We can’t get a job that matches our CV so we have to take whatever is available.”
Brazil’s 12.3 percent jobless rate is higher than at any point during the 2015-2016 recession that caused the economy to shrink nearly seven percent.
Since then, sluggish growth – the economy expanded 1.1 percent in 2017 and 2018, and analysts expect an even slower pace this year – is discouraging companies from expanding their payrolls, despite a new pro-business president in Jair Bolsonaro.
Standing in line outside an employment center in Rio de Janeiro, Thaysa dos Santos says she is ready to accept any job. As one of Brazil’s 13 million unemployed, she says she cannot be “choosy.”
As Latin America’s biggest economy threatens to slide back into recession, just two years after emerging from a devastating crisis, finding work is harder than ever.
“Nowadays it is very difficult,” says dos Santos, 27, a former office assistant who has been looking for a full-time job for three months.
“People can’t be choosy. We can’t get a job that matches our CV so we have to take whatever is available.”
Brazil’s 12.3 percent jobless rate is higher than at any point during the 2015-2016 recession that caused the economy to shrink nearly seven percent.
Since then, sluggish growth – the economy expanded 1.1 percent in 2017 and 2018, and analysts expect an even slower pace this year – is discouraging companies from expanding their payrolls, despite a new pro-business president in Jair Bolsonaro.
