Mit 18 habe ich mich auf 110 Stellen beworben – niemand stellt so junge Männer ein wie ich
At 18, I’ve applied for 110 jobs – no one is hiring young men like me
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Mit 18 habe ich mich auf 110 Stellen beworben – niemand stellt so junge Männer ein wie ich
At 18, I’ve applied for 110 jobs – no one is hiring young men like me
Von pppppppppppppppppd
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I feel for youngsters trying to enter the job market. It’s getting tougher each year.
He isn’t particularly in demand (18, level 2 it course, basic experience) and is among a huge, huge sea of others trying the same thing. Also, 110 jobs in this economy is sadly a drop in the bucket of whats probably required.
What i will say though – employers (im talking corporate, large ones with recruitment department, non mom-and-pop) need to somehow be held accountable for the rate of rejection via lack of communication.
It’s one thing being told „sorry, this position is now filled“ but I really feel for the juniors and my own friends who may apply for 150 jobs and hear back from 5 at most, rejecting them anyway. It cant be good mentally to just be ignored.
I also understand though life isn’t that easy and if you have 500 applicants for 1 position, what are you meant to do?
I was recently made redundant and applied for around 80 jobs before receiving 4 offers, so even for experienced staff the markets brutal.
The lad in the article I feel for, it was similar when I first started, incredibly demoralising as time goes on.
I will say that it does get better though as long as you stick with it and try to be realistic about prospects. I’m not working in the industry my degree is from; but I also like paying my mortgage and eating, so needs must.
This trope of “applied to xx jobs” is so clickbaity
Doing a Level 2 IT course. So you know how to turn a computer on and off again. You can get a level 2 it course in a couple of hours online FFS. Thenn applies for jobs that are not IT based, retail and fast food. Come on people. Its hard to get a job but give yourself a fething charge.
Get a proper professional qualification that companies are actually looking for an not a piece of crap course someone is pushing on you to make money.
I feel for young people but also all the young people I’ve helped out have shockingly bad CVs. All it took was a couple of hours fixing it and they got an interview easy.
There really needs to be education on this in state schools because at the moment, you aren’t gonna get a job unless your parents teach you how to properly write one.
Equity release mortages, pension fund management, inheritance lawyer, funeral director. All massive growth industries. That’s where I’d be looking for employment. Anything that involves elderly folk and their money, of which the state has ensured there is much to be spent.
He’s right, they don’t care. Why would a recruiter care if someone doesn’t get a job, all they want is the best person for the job they’re advertising. It’s shit at the mo and AI isn’t helping either.
Nobody is hiring young people period.
Straight, Gay, Non Gender, Trans, White, Black, Brown, Religious, Non Believer.. whatever you label you choose to use to describe yourself, it all means fuck all when applying for jobs.
I have watched my daughter and her friends who are a mix of people from all walks of life struggle like hell just to get acknowledged, let alone get an interview.
The few who have mangled to get an Interview (including my daughter) were rejected due to lack of experience.. THEY ARE 18!!! Of course they are not going to have experience.. why bring them in if experience was such an important factor in making your decision.
Bear in mind most of them including my daughter have spent the last couple of years volunteering in various charity shops to get some experience so when they get told they have no experience when applying for retail it hurts.. a lot.
No post war generation has had it so bad when it comes to trying to get a job.
Now if anybody says they should be going to shop to shop with their CV in hand.. $“% OFF!!!
Get your head out of the past.
Virtually no large business accepts CV’s in store anymore. Hell most managers at these stores don’t even do the hiring these days.
I went into town with my daughter about 6 months ago. She started at one point and went into each and every shop asking to speak to speak to the manager and asking if they any jobs available and if she could drop her CV off.
By the time we hit the 10th shop she was mentally battered because every person told her that they don’t accept CV’s and that if there are any jobs available it will be on their website.
We took a break and then picked up, another 5 – 6 shops and we called it quits because each one was the same.
I swear to god if I hear another person accuse Young People being lazy or back in my day we would just walk into a shop I swear to god I will slap the shit out of them.
They want AI! Once it replaces one, it’ll replace all. They keep ignoring that.
Connect to Work is a great scheme. Easy to check if you are eligible, just search for Connect to Work and your local area. Also Youth Guarantee is on the way later this year. Also worth checking where your nearest Youth Hub is.
It’s good he’s hiring so many young men. No one else compares
>It makes me feel like they don’t care,” he tells The i Paper. “Like I’m just another name on a sheet.”
They don’t. And you are.
I’m 42 and in my current job for around six years now. Nursing based. Once upon a time I would move between jobs after a few years – but even in nursing this flexibility has all but gone with few jobs being chased by not only NQNs but also experienced nurses wanting to move jobs.
I confess I would be terrified to do an interview now given how much the employment market has changed.
As for younger folk – that so many companies don’t bother acknowledging them or recruitment agencies enroll them and deliver absolutely zero – is pretty cruel.
When I was in the UK, I saw one or two applications hit the bin. Remarkably keen applicants, just writing in in the hope there was work or they would go on „file“.
There was no „file“, if a vacancy wasn’t open at that instant, the application would be binned.
Some very keen peoples cv’s hit that bin.
The people we did hire when the vacancy arose were those responding to an advert or two in the local press.
We could have done so much better.
Engineering staff, those with the skills to do the work were never consulted as to who was chosen or interviewed, management knew it all.
Yeah, no shit at 18 with no experience and the equivalent of 5 GCSEs. Retail or apprenticeship.
Employers have always had dorm for not always having the decency to acknowledge applications etc, but it seems to be amplified now.
I read CVs and I can tell you now 90% of you peoples are fucking diabolical. I’m not taking you serious when you can’t spell, cope and paste the same shit „work well on my own or in a team“, and then tell me you love horses and tennis on a Friday. I swear the teachers need to really tell students how to write a good CV, or the actual base IQ is just at an all time low.
Ask farage for a job
He will create so many jobs
He has no skills or qualifications why would anyone want to hire him?
Why would anyone hire a 18 year old with basic school leavers experience for an entry level role, when you can recruit a postgrad from abroad with several years experience who is more interested in the visa than the salary?
Many such cases. I expect a lot of young people will have to look abroad, and hope they’ve got some reasons for preferential visa and passport access in their ancestry, for their first jobs.
I have a different take on this from personal experience within IT hiring. There are jobs at the low end within 1st line support where young people could get their foot in the door and learn the ropes. What I see are people with a qualification expecting mid to senior roles with no experience.
Cyber and particularly pen testing also have far to many applicants with zero experience which are roles that require it.
They need to apply for jobs that are applicable.
You know what this calls for? Another bazillion Indians and Pakistanis.
GDP must go up, feck your job applications and quality of life 🙂
This jobs economy is a „who you know“ much more than a „what you know“
Sounds similar to a guy in my office. His son finished with a 1st in IT last year and hasn’t been able to find a job in the field. Fewer jobs and more experienced people willing to drop down the career ladder just to be working. It’s tough.
He’s probably not getting a job because he doesn’t have Maths/English gcse or neither. It’s massive barrier to entry and many companies will automatically filter people out who don’t have those qualifications.
If he wants to go into IT he should be asking his college to allow him onto the level 3 digital and cyber technologies course that they offer. Depending on when his birthday is he could still get funding for the two year course before he turns 19.
That way he gets another couple years of potentially getting his gcses aswell as getting a level 3 qualification at the end of two years.
Can’t wait for the government to fix this by increasing minimum wage for young people again.
How are they meant to get experience, all the „first“ jobs meant for kids are going to desperate new arrivals. Its not only screwing them over work wise, but also mentally because human interaction on a business/formal level is important.
First impressions are important, if that’s him in the picture, I wouldn’t hire him unless his interview was exceptional.
No one is hiring old men like me either. The job market is utterly dead right now. Everyone’s waiting to see whether algorithmically generated content (sorry, „AI“) means they can get rid of all their existing staff. Junior roles (for people just starting out, or trying to get back into work) are completely non-existent.
I found my first job in a call centre at 17 – part time whilst I studied at Uni. Stayed there after I graduated, worked my way up the ranks and got a Director role in my early 30’s. Made a career transition in the same company to become a Network Engineer three years ago. The company was really hot on promoting internally and many of my peers started in the call centre.
That same call centre shut pre COVID and all those entry level jobs moved to the Philippines. Directors are now hired in externally. New tech jobs are hired remotely in India. There’s no longer any pathways for young people to cut their teeth, those avenues have totally disappeared.
I’ve seen job ads for „junior“ positions that require 2-3 years of experience. How do you get your foot in the door if you need experience to even do that?
I graduated in 2002 with a 2.2 in a business course, that was mediocre and getting a decent job took years. Flitting between temping jobs and was a security guard for 3 years before I got a 9 to 5 office job and even that was less then 20k. Unfortunately the rising minimum wage has really seen job cuts at the low end of the job spectrum. Yes living wage etc is great idealistic thinking but there are consequences
I mean… yeah… when you have no qualifications (level 2 is absolutely worthless) and no experience.
Who would want to employ you vs literally anyone else.
He is going to have to go for less desired jobs or go back to school, otherwise he is making himself unemployed.
Not everything is someone else’s fault, in this case he just didn’t achieve in education
I’m 26 and in the same boat. Can’t get a job because I lack experience, start volunteering and do it for nearly 4 years now. But the goalpost shifts to paid experience so 4 years of volunteering is worthless, best I got is 5 weeks as a Temp Poultry Worker(which I only got cause my friend’s brother was the manager).
Honestly the generic rejection email about so and so applicants with no time for personal feedback is itched into my brain. I understand people here complaining how bad CVs are but the lack of feedbacl from employers is soul destroying. If the various career advisors say my CV is good then how can I improve it if employers cannot be bothered to provide feedback?
perhaps the 110 is the problem. Less is more.
I get so many mail merged CVs that are obvious and go right in the bin. Those that are tailored to the job stand far more chance of an interview.
ah but doing worry… after fucking the country & pumping all the money to the 0.1% they’ll be telling you to be patriotic and join the army to protect king and country as the money laundering the City & bankers did for the Russians pays for them to hack the country to pieces…..utter wankers!
Can’t wait to see them try to get Gen Z to fight for this ponzi scheme of a shit hole!!
I feel bad for this guy. Farther down the article it says he’s autistic, which might mean he doesn’t have the soft skills that getting hired requires these days. Seeing job postings and uploading a CV doesn’t work nearly as well as networking.
This dude looks like a homeless person with a suit, who starts an interview with a discussion around their preferred pronouns.
I’ll bet my left nut there’s a good reason anyone who applied for a 3 digit number of jobs, and doesn’t get employed, doesn’t get employed. I read these things online but never seem to hear about it in the actual world. Feel like this is some sensationalist news line grabbing click bait outlier.
Gosh I feel so sorry for younger people. I work in retail management and recently did recruitment for the summer.
So many candidates, and I honestly wish I could hire more but it’s so difficult to pick a handful of people when you know so many are desperately looking for a job. I try to pick a mixture so I’m at least giving some people a chance to have their first job and get that experience, but it breaks my heart that I can’t do more.
Even I want to change my job, but fear that for some reason I’ll fail the probation period and end up with nothing and facing competition from so many people.
Taxes and red tape killed small businesses, what do you expect. Vote for more socialists. And the road back is going to be extremely painful.
Make sure you **do not use AI for your CV**. Everyone I speak with just bins them as soon as they see the ai traits of generic language, keywords, lack of personal touch and flow
Well yeah, most places aren’t hiring any more because of several factors and most high street shops that you used to be able to at least get part time in, now file for and get approved for high skilled visas for overseas workers despite the businesses being Barbers, newsagents and kebab shops.
Combine the above with the fact that corporations aren’t actively willing to onboard and train people anymore unless it’s call center work, along with bias hiring practices and cheap overseas labour in general immigrating to the UK, you’re just not gonna find a job.
You could have tried the EU but coffin dodgers who were mostly wiped out by covid and people who would look up if you told them „Gullible“ was written on the ceiling voted us out of the EU so looking for jobs in the likes of the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Spain etc isn’t an option anymore.
A level 2 IT course and one week of work experience at 18 is less then what most 16 year olds have
So it makes sense he has trouble competing for work
If I was him I’d book a one way flight to Australia. You can now do 3 years on a WHV. Get into the mines or out on a station and properly live. He will gain so much experience and confidence. And theres always the chance he can get sponsored and stay on. Or he may come back, and will then have a much more exciting CV and stand out from the crowd.
Staying in the UK endlessly applying for mind numbing minimum wage jobs sounds really really depressing at 18.
Labour increasing employment taxes and making it much much harder to get rid off people if they are no good.
And look what happens.
Worse youth unemployment than Italy.
My Indeed account says that I have applied to around 300 jobs. I have experience in retail (volunteering at a charity shop), food service experience from working at a big chain and a smaller independent place and I have experience as a barista and mixologist. And I cannot get a job. I have complete availability and I’m willing to work any number of hours. I’m over 18, so I can work late shifts, but I’m under 21, so don’t have to be paid the national living wage. I’ve gotten multiple interviews at places which has only led to me doing unpaid trial shifts. Multiple unpaid trial shifts in one instance. Literally had to do trial shifts for four separate restaurants for waitressing roles
I have work experience in pretty much all areas of the service industry. Because I started working at around fourteen, so I have an advantage over many other people my age who are applying to the same role who have no experience yet I’m still not getting hired anywhere. I have literally been rejected from multiple glass collecting roles. And McDonald’s, multiple times. And I have qualifications, 4 A stars at A-Level in Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths, and Physics
Yet millions of immigrants come in yearly – the politicians on either side of the spectrum really fucked the nation and the continent