Nearly 1m young people out of work

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62gzl2yl24o

AIBU to be concerned that a life on benefits seems to be a viable option, and glad Labour are bringing in compulsory work placements?

DC 16 (at sixth form) put in tens of applications. It’s brutal out there abd extremely demoralizing

In the 90s we all got jobs with ease. It’s very different

In what decade, cause most jobs I've seen advertised over the last 40 years have wanted 5 gcses including Maths & English

I agree. What twat thought this was a good idea.

The same with my DD, she's 18 at uni, has applied for lots of jobs, had about 5 interviews with nothing offered.
Some employers didn't even get back to her after the interview at all which I think is really shameful especially to a young person starting out.
She has just started working in a bar with a zero hours contract on minimum wage so will see how it goes.
I'm hoping she will get some experience at least so she can find it easier to get something else in the future.

We live in a tourist area now, and there are so many jobs we can't find the people - I think every business in the village my OH shop is in employs YP - pretty much zero unemployment around here...

Are you going to pay the extra taxes for all the middle ranking public sector workers to get a payrise?

If it was increased that much then either the problem shifts to nobody ever wanting to get a promotion because it’s not worth it financially or all other salaries go up and inflation goes through the roof.

Oh, and there would probably be no SMEs either - they’d be priced out. So that’s a lot of possible employment opportunities out of the window.

How bad is his autism? Are you sure he is being rejected because of that, or maybe it is lack of experience? Could he volunteer in his chosen filed?

I was on and off the dole after leaving school with fuck all qualifications, and kicked out of an abusive home. I did a load of shit jobs for the next few years, for crap pay, or cash in hand, or voluntary work for no pay at all, anything to try to become employable and make up for lack of qualifications.

It was a deprived rural area with few jobs. I worked in fields, factories, care homes, part-time, temporary jobs, sometimes 3 jobs at once, all the antisocial shifts no one wanted, then back on the dole again when contracts ran out or summer tourism jobs ended..

Eventually I went back into education, escaped to university, got a good career, and lived (mostly) happily ever after..

I do ask myself sometimes, could I do again it if I was a teen today?

Maybe, but I'm really not sure. It was hard enough then. I sofa surfed a lot, I stayed with an abusive boyfriend far too long, because I simply had no where else to go.

I definitely don't think I would have attempted university if I had been guaranteed £50K in debt. The debt I did get was bad enough, and we were sold a dream of guaranteed well paid employment at the end of it. High debt and no job or minimum wage would have meant university was too much of a gamble when I had no support network if I failed.

I can't blame today's teens for staying home when everything is so tough. I grew up fast because I had no choice, if I'd had a loving home maybe I would have stayed there too. Young people with no family support like me probably cling to the stability offered by benefits, when cheap housing and well paid jobs are both so hard to get. Can't blame them for that either.

I welcome the change from shoving all kids into academia, regardless of whether they're academic or not, and move towards practical apprenticeships provided by employers. I hope it will help a lot in the longer term with getting more young people into stable employment with less debt.

He wasnt looking for work until he'd finished his masters.

The answer is a wealth tax.

Yes, he's got some really useful groups he attends.

So you don't understand how the Uni debt works then,,,,,,,

which I guess highlights that there isn’t actually one solution because there’s not one single problem - different areas have different issues.

i know where BIL lives the hospitality places struggle to find enough staff, but where he lives is now mostly holiday homes and second homes so the people holidaying don’t want/need jobs there.

My 19 year old got a job after over a year of applying. She applied for everything but rarely heard back. She got her current job in October and it was such a relief.
I get angry when I hear people saying young people are lazy and don't even try to apply for jobs.
It's not just DD my nephew's, niece and friends children are all struggling to get work. Still every generation seems to look down on young people and think they're lazy.

Yes he did, it was a really good area at the time. Game design and development. Then his masters was global MBA and on paper he is highly desirable but here we are

Stop benefits until someone has worked 5 plus years and watch large numbers suddenly find some form of work.

Basically, round here -and it's not just entry-level jobs, one of the Graduate jobs my daughter has been offered has had so few applications they interviewed all of them, others are still open as they can't find suitable candidates - STEM for a massive company. ...... another one she was offered was out of 3000, but that was further south based.

Just looked total unemployment rate, he is under 2% - basically the unemployable - national average is 5.2%

There was a bloke on radio 4 the other day and he was being interviewed by the host about finding employment, and he had a degree and a PhD in engineering and lots of experience etc. and he was struggling to find work. If people like this are struggling, how on earth is someone without any qualifications or experience going to manage? Some advertised jobs don't even exist!!! They're called 'ghost jobs' apparently. Fucking wonderful. This is mental torture in my opinion.

How do young people spend their time between applying for non existent jobs? Ds2 goes nocturnal if he's not occupied. This is really bad for mental health. We're planning on paying for some trades training for him after he graduates.

@grimupnorthnot In the 70s. Me! No O level maths. Ended up as Member of CIPD though. I wasn’t numerically useless but found maths difficult. Got a HNC with my employer paying and I was very grateful.

Well done.to your 19 year old. It shows it takes time but with perseverance it is possible.

Your attitude towards apprenticeships being “free money” for companies is inaccurate and insulting. I hope you’ve never told your son this - might explain why he’s not getting anywhere if this is his attitude too.

There is a lot of work for a company to take on an apprentice. Do you have any idea how much time (and therefore money) it takes for someone to train an apprentice. Who pays for any mistakes the apprentice makes? Who has to cover the apprentice while they are at college? Who has to do the reviews, the feedback, all the paperwork for the college?

It is not upto the government to create jobs. It is up to the government to create an environment where employers are happy to create jobs and give inexperienced young people a chance. At the moment they are doing a VERY poor job of that.

Please tell me where ?
My 19 year old will do anything .

Higher wages mean lower top ups, so why do you want to keep them low?

Good luck to him as it sounds like he really wants it. Hope he finds something soon.

I do think with so many degrees (and this isn’t related to his as I know nothing about that area), people could learn exactly the same just doing the job and being in the workplace. Starting out bottom level, working your way up as it always was, training as you go, incentives from the government, more links between schools and workplaces (although this does already seem to be happening).

I think apprenticeships will become the favourite for alot of young people and Uni without a guaranteed job afterwards (and a shed load of debt) is just going to feel so pointless.