links for 2009-11-03

AGED 25 and armed with a masters degree in water management, Andrew Reeves has the very mix of youth and green-mindedness that many governments claim to need. Yet when he attended a Canadian government job fair in Toronto this autumn, he left after 20 minutes without handing out a single résumé.

He queued in front of a booth for the Canadian natural-resources ministry, only to be told that information on openings was best found on the ministrys website. Id have preferred to do the whole thing by e-mail, he grumbles. Such was his frustration that he settled instead for a small non-profit group specialised in recycling.