Junge Menschen brauchen laut Umfrage mehr staatliche Unterstützung, um Arbeit zu finden
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/young-people-unemployment-state-support-5HjdNFf_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
Junge Menschen brauchen laut Umfrage mehr staatliche Unterstützung, um Arbeit zu finden
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/young-people-unemployment-state-support-5HjdNFf_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
24 Kommentare
>A whole generation of young people was badly let down by the last Tory government.
Pretty much and it’s going to be blamed on labour because getting a million young people into work is so easy.
Nothing like more government to solve the problems caused by government.
From what I can see, a host of American companies bought up British businesses during the 2009 recession. They now offshore as much work as they can rather than hire graduates and apprentices because profits for shareholders and CEO bonuses are just bigger if you can get India or South African to do the work. The taxpayer pays local authorities to issue contracts where the profit goes abroad, and we don’t even have the benefits of training youngsters anymore. It’s an easy fix, introduce legislation to limit what can be offshored when it’s public money.
Maybe bring back careers advisors into school? I remember having to practice applying for jobs for work experience. Do schools still go through how to apply for jobs?
This is more like a massive cultural and social paradigm shift that has left generations, millions, completely severed from any genuine prospect of employment.
Technology and globalism has rapidly shifted the goal posts and education and the culture of the so called working class has not kept pace. I think if you look in to it they simply stopped trying to about a decade ago.
That said, not much to aspire to PAYE these days is there? You will give all your time, own nothing and be unhappy. I used to get mocked a lot when I worked in social services. I’ll never forget one night in a hostel a kid came in with about 3 grand in cash at 5 am and asked „What even is the point of you? All you do is open the door for me..“
He wasn’t wrong really.
No kidding the job centers current modus operandi is „give them a web portal of jobs, tell them tk apply for 2 a week – done“ it doesn’t matter what job it is or if you are skilled for it. Half the time they dont check CVs or offer any other support. Its really depends on your local branch.
What they need to be doing is offering:
– CV and cover letter courses as soon as you sign up, no matter where you are.
– Provide interview practice.
– Provide access to free country recongnised courses & qualifications that will upskill people for a career they are capable of.
– Provide classes on expected clothing for the workplace of your career & interviews.
– Provide classes on social norms in the workplace. People need to know they have to leave their phones alone. That they have to be mindful of not being exist, racist, lGBTQ+ phobic, ablist, etc.
– Provide classes on workers rights e.g. must be paid for trial shifts, how probations work, mandatory break laws etc.
They need to provide more than £90 a week in benefits for job searching.
It’s a lot easier to find a job in a high growth, high productivity country. Labour should be laser focused on that.
I remember when I left school back in 2015, the job centre was a genuinely helpful place. From my very first appointment there the person I spoke to went out of her way to help me find work. I’d get emails from her constantly with different jobs she’d found based on my qualifications and stuff and if I confirmed interest in said jobs she’d help me apply for them.
Fast forward to 2022 and I needed to make use of the job centre again. The experience couldn’t be any more different. The woman who was assigned to me this time basically just said ‚go find a job, and if you haven’t found one by next week’s meeting then I’ll help by just telling you to go find a job again‘. I got no actual support, guidance or help. As far as she was concerned, as long as she was telling me to find a job and hanging the loss of UC over my head if I didn’t then she’d done what she was paid to do.
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Let’s maybe stop inviting hundreds of thousands of new people into the country who will compete for the entry level jobs that young people need (as well as the housing in the places with jobs which they also need).
In my experience, careers advisors, the job centre and the like were all totally useless.
Better career advisors could help though, and starting from a younger age. I’d put a stronger focus in schools at looking at the employment and salary statistics of different career paths and how to pursue them.
Many kids give up on maths when perhaps they’d persist if they knew how valuable it can be. Many kids have no idea how you could become a plumber or electrician etc. or how well compensated they are.
By intervening early to better align their skills to the job market, we could create better outcomes for both employers and the students themselves.
Not to mention the fact that most of them wonder why they should bother. I’ve got 3 teenagers and one of them said to me she’s seen me and wife graft our arses off for years just to keep our heads above water and any job she gets wouldn’t even pay enough for her to move out unless she moved into a HMO.
Work doesn’t pay enough for most people to live solo anymore and companies ditch people off in a heartbeat for AI or because shareholder profits aren’t being hit. And a whole generation has grown up seeing this through social media and seeing people unboxing shit for a living and raking in more cash than any of us do, doing a proper job.
So they genuinely ask me, what is the point of them going out to work if they never see the benefits of their efforts?
Doesn’t help that there’s a load of older people who are out of work and desperate to find anything to help pay the rent/bills so there’s more people than ever applying for jobs no matter what their previous experiences or skill set is.
The last company i worked for was struggling and has now gone bust, they can’t be contacted and I don’t have a reference. Employers need 2 or 3 work references, not a personal reference. Employers also want 2 years experience for entry level admin positions.
I was a team member at pizza hut in 2005, now they are advertising that role but you need a degree for that minimum wage position. God knows why!?
Im stuck.
No wonder so many younger people are struggling too. Nobody reaches these expectations.
The Jobcentre doesn’t help with any of that. They’ve rehashed my CV 3 times. They’ve tried to get me on several irrelevant courses even though i have better qualifications and experiences than the course offers.
The jobs market is a nightmare for anyone no matter their age. Everyone needs support.
Part of the problem I reckon is the barriers to entry. Jobs that don’t need a degree ask for one because they know they can use it as an easy culling mechanism. As well as this, interview process have become labyrinthine and multi-stage. Then there’s the disruption of AI and automation which is de-skilling and eliminating roles.
Adding to this, a general excess of labour not improved by immigration.
Of course, immigration has positives as well in terms of growth rate so everyone is loathe to do much about it. It’s definitely a weird economy for young people and fixing it needs to be a too priority or we might end up with a wasted generation
Or the state could just make more jobs.
Perhaps building houses.
The last thing we need is the government doing more anything.
The civil service needs to be cut 50%
I took part in a steps to work scheme where young people who were long term unemployed were offered opportunities to get into work and receive coaching.
I brought in one person who seemed keen but oh my days it was rough.
They only came in if they felt like it, they could not understand that it wasn’t optional whether you went to work or not. They were staying up all night playing games online and when they realised they would be tired, would just.. not come in.
They saw no problem with this.
They were unable to accept any constructive feedback at all as they felt triggered and attacked – regardless of how it was delivered.
They say on their phone all day.
They went for lunch whenever they felt like it and took as long as they liked.
None of this was a failure to communicate and set clear expectations – they had a very clear onboarding. I’m a qualified coach/mentor and SME in my field who speaks at industry conferences so they had the best of opportunities.
It’s a shame because apart from the attitude to work they wanted to learn and were keen to understand more and do well. We explored learning methods and the delivery was adjusted to gamefied methods which they responded well to.
This is just one person, though feedback from other mentors is that this is common with kids today: failure to take accountability, push back on being managed and a view that working was optional.
Between rampant offshoring, AI, layoffs, and the constant influx of cheap workers, I’m surprised *any* young person born in the UK can get a job.
Some would be good.
I am also consistently baffled as to why any such support is only ever offered to those claiming benefits through the JobCentre. There will always be a small but equally unemployed group who have savings or are fortunate enough to be supported by family whilst out of work.
Do we not want to help them get jobs too?
I thought another poll said that the public wanted the government to cut spending? It’s as if people don’t know what they want at times
We need more bullshit jobs to keep young people occupied while we shift more money to the top of the tree.
This is a failing system, but still no one wants to acknowledge it.
Abandoning work from home models and forcing people to be on site for most office type roles automatically restricts many with disabilities, carers and those living in remote areas from finding those jobs.
Work from home needs to be the norm when possible. It opens up so many opportunities to so many people.
No they need these companies to start investing in them instead of taking on an immigrant who already has experience for half the price.
Offshoring work should be made illegal or at least have limits because it’s money going directly out of the economy.
I can’t get even get a part time role but if I walk into that same store I was rejected from the service is extremely poor and half of the workers don’t speak English. How is this fair?
Why do dependents also have the same access to the job market as everyone else? They should be put on limited hours to not displace locals from being employed and pushing them on to state funding.
Boris wave hasn’t helped. Lot jobs that used to be done by young Brits have been replaced by international students and such. Like look at retail, restaurants/fast-foods, unskilled, and entry level work. Competition has went way up by adding millions of people into the population in just a few short years.