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How the UK Job Market Really Works|Oliver Carrow

How the UK Job Market Really Works : Zero-Hours Contracts, Recruiters, CV Filters and the System Behind Modern Work

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You applied. You heard nothing. You updated your CV. You still heard nothing.

The UK job market has an employment rate above 75%. It also has four million workers on zero-hours contracts, 75% of CVs rejected by software before a human reads them, and a recruitment industry worth 45 billion that is paid by employers - not by you.

This is not bad luck. This is the system working exactly as designed.

How the UK Job Market Really Works is the essential guide to UK employment rights, gig economy exploitation, zero-hours contracts, CV filtering, salary inequality, and IR35 - for every British worker who has ever felt the rules were written by someone else.

  • Why the recruitment agency is paid by your employer, not by you
  • How applicant tracking systems rejected your CV before anyone saw it
  • What zero-hours contracts actually cost - and who saves that money
  • How salary opacity keeps you earning less than your colleagues
  • Why IR35 taxes you as an employee while denying you employee rights
  • Who profits every time you stay precarious


No career advice. No positive reframing.
Just the system. Explained.

THE HIDDEN SYSTEMS SERIES
Understanding the world that shapes your life.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798257297687
  • ISBN-10: 9798257297687
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: April 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.43 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
  • Page Count: 202

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