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    One million young people will soon not be in education or employment
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    One million young people will soon not be in education or employment

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    3. AnotherYadaYada on

      Honestly, not to be a doom monger. You will see this figure rise and rise and rise as companies attempt to maximise profit and minimise staff count.

      Governments need to prepare for the fallout that is coming. But that’s a laugh.

    4. No-Beyond-4054 on

      To be expected when wages are kept low due to mass unskilled immigration and other jobs which would be ideal for students such as telecoms are outsourced to other countries.

    6. BadBloodBear on

      Not in

      Employment

      Education or

      Training

      NEETS – I do recommed doing part time courses if you can while looking for a job as well as walkling and hitting the gym.

    7. CinderrUwU on

      Given my experiences with unemployment… I’m REALLY not surprised.

      The UC person did more harm than good for my job search and made me do a bunch of pointless things to sign up to 10 different programs and training courses while also expecting me to do 50 hours of job search a week. It ended up in me just spamming a bunch of low-effort applications for jobs I don’t care about just to get numbers up and then only doing one or two real applications a day.

      And from there, I only got a response from half the job applications I did and half of the ones that did reply just said “We filled the position, bye” and then the government website that half the jobs link to is terrible and will time you out mid-application. There is no way at all to do an effective job search outside of just knowing someone who can get you the job.

    8. digsy on

      I know there’s a lot of factors in play here, but these are the COVID kids aren’t they? The ones who lost out on education because of the lockdowns etc.

    10. WeMustPlantMoreTrees on

      I believe people need a ‘first trade’ course; hear me out. There are universal tools that you can easily learn that’ll save you massive amounts in the future. Skills like ‘measure twice, cut once’, simple I know but it could save you so much time. I believe this can help young people for the future.

    11. JackStrawWitchita on

      To be fair, the world is spiralling into such a post-capitalism populist dystopia it’s probably best if young people just focus on enjoying themselves for as long as they can before the work camps and Orwellian police state measures are fully implemented…

    12. benl5442 on

      Ai is going to make the problem worse. It’s a world wide problem and I don’t think politics can solve it.

    13. CrabbyGremlin on

      Give everyone the same wage from 18 onwards. It’s ridiculous that under 24s get paid less for doing the same work as someone older than them. Maybe in some industries people gain experience, but someone who’s 18 packing shelves should be paid the same as a 25 year old stacking shelves.

      Imagine turning 18 and an hourly wage only gets you one beer (in stead of two).

    14. Pineappily on

      I’m 23, and stuff like this makes me just want to end it all right now lol. I’m filled with such anxiety, dread and hopelessness lol

    15. uknihilist on

      There are jobs and training out there, just not necessarily the jobs you want. Why not try bricklaying, HGV driving, scaffolding….