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It’s understandable to want to avoid the news at the moment, in fact many mental health charities recommend it as a method of self-care. Chances are though, even if you’ve managed this, the reality of what’s happening to the UK economy and jobs market won’t have escaped your attention. With 673,000 jobs lost between March and September this year (source: ONS/Independent) and more redundancies likely to take place when the Government’s Job Retention scheme ends, few people’s professional lives remain unaffected by Covid-19.