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Speaker 1: Fewer graduate jobs in Wellington. This is in the public service.

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Speaker 1: So the numbers now just under two hundred jobs last

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Speaker 1: year compared to nearly five hundred in the year before that.

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Speaker 1: Aiden Donaghue, Victoria, University of Wellington Students Association, Vice President

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Speaker 1: with me this morning, Aid and good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: What jobs are we talking about?

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Speaker 3: Graduate jobs are we're talking about jobs that are offered

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Speaker 3: either directly after graduating or early in careers.

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Speaker 2: Your first three years sort of after leaving university.

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Speaker 1: And what typically type of degree would you have done

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Speaker 1: to get one of these jobs.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of a mixed bunch. So you have

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Speaker 2: a commerce degrees, so your treasury, financial markets authority, you know,

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Speaker 2: other humanity degrees such as mb King of Order and

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Speaker 2: Ministry of Ethnic Communities, all sorts of degrees to get

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Speaker 2: into the public service.

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Speaker 1: And these people are now because the public service doesn't

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Speaker 1: have the same number of jobs that they used to

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Speaker 1: perhaps under a labor government. Whatever they are going, we're

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Speaker 1: doing what.

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Speaker 2: Go on ours, right, That's that's the simple fact about it.

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Speaker 2: There's there's you know, fuel work and there's more pay

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Speaker 2: to be asked for over there, so why not you know,

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Speaker 2: move over do we know?

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Speaker 1: I guess the question is whether these jobs were actually

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Speaker 1: worth our time in the first place. Has anyone noticed

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Speaker 1: that they're missing?

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Speaker 2: I'd say, well, there graduates themselves have noticed. But the

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Speaker 2: key thing about, you know, with public sector roles is

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Speaker 2: you go in as a bit of a generalist, so

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Speaker 2: even though you might start off in one place, you

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Speaker 2: find yourself all over the shop, you know, offering help

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Speaker 2: where it is needed.

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Speaker 1: Really, is there anything stopping these graduates from becoming frontline

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Speaker 1: police officers or teachers?

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Speaker 2: No, really, other than sort of what you train for.

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Speaker 2: But teaching is a whole nother kittle of fresh around

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Speaker 2: job availability after graduating as.

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Speaker 1: Well as in there aren't jobs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as in it's it's it's hard. You've got to do,

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Speaker 2: you know, unplaid placements to get in first, and then

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Speaker 2: you've got to do your time and again same sort

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Speaker 2: of draws to move just odds to be a police

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Speaker 2: or to be a couple or teacher.

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Speaker 1: Are they aid? Given the fact that there are as

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Speaker 1: many graduate jobs in Wellington, are fewer people going into

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Speaker 1: the courses that would split them out the other end

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Speaker 1: to take those jobs.

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Speaker 2: We're not seeing that directly so far. We've seen a

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Speaker 2: lot of people maybe go in with the mindset that

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Speaker 2: they will just move anyway if it isn't the option

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Speaker 2: to stay within Wellington.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time this morning, Aiden. Thank you Aiden Donna,

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