Dark_Lord_2008 said: If you do not gain employment between the ages of 15 to 25 it is highly likely you will face long periods of unemployment later in life. A 25 year old is a better job applicant with 5 to 10 years employment compared to a 25 year old who has never had a job in his/her life. I reached 25 and had never worked, I completed a Bachelor degree and 10 years have gone by so quickly and now in my mid 30s, I have never worked. Why are young people increasingly failing to make the leap into full-time jobs? It's hard to know. Partly it's a subdued economy, but it's possible that young people are graduating with degrees that don't match the skills needed by employers.
Why employ a young person who needs experience when you can get a more experienced foreign worker ready to go for the same price?
How is it that we have growing youth unemployment and yet we are running a huge immigration program based on so called skills shortages? Skills shortages that don't have any independent market testing or any requirement to list positions locally. It is a increasingly competitive jobs market. Young people are staying in education longer than ever before, they are taking up more unpaid cadetships and training positions. In a global labor market labor is cheap. Government policy supports business profits against the interests of workers. The wages and conditions build up over generations of the labor movement are being undone.
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I can only speak about America, but experience means EVERYTHING. Connections are second and education comes at a distant third unless you graduated from an Ivy league school or something.