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Speaker 1: Brian Brad it's tough to be a young job seeker

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Speaker 1: right now. Sixteen percent of the fifteen to twenty four

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Speaker 1: year olds in New Zealand currently out of work sixteen percent.

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Speaker 1: Gen z economist Brad Olsen from Informetric spoke to Nick

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Speaker 1: Mills about this issue on news talks that w'd be

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Speaker 1: Wellington Mornings earlier today.

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Speaker 2: We know that if you're under thirty, your job chances,

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Speaker 2: your job opportunities are just so much more heavier hits

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Speaker 2: than any other part of the economy.

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Speaker 1: Mark Giller, director of the New Zealand Careers Expo, with

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Speaker 1: me now, Hey.

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Speaker 3: Mark, Hey, how are you right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Good, thank you. Good to have you on the program.

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Speaker 1: How tough is it out How tough is it out

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Speaker 1: there for people? Young people?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Look, it's obviously very tough. I mean there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of things going on out there for young people

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Speaker 3: to navigate these days.

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Speaker 1: And who I mean, is there anything that they could

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Speaker 1: be doing better or is it just market conditions?

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Speaker 3: Look, market conditions aren't helping obviously. Those stats that Brad

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Speaker 3: quoted earlier on today, they show a pretty tough environment.

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Speaker 3: But it's never been particularly easy for young people. They

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Speaker 3: need to lean on the resources that are out there

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Speaker 3: to help them navigate their way through. I know Brad

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Speaker 3: made the comment it's not the fault of young people

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Speaker 3: that it's so tough these days. But while it's not

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Speaker 3: necessarily anybody's fault, the owners is certainly there on employers,

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Speaker 3: on industry organizations to engage with young people these days.

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Speaker 3: That's you know, there's been a propensity to step back

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Speaker 3: and let the internet that we'll be talking, but we

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Speaker 3: know face to face engagement with young people is what

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Speaker 3: really inspires them. That's what helps them connect and know

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Speaker 3: what their options are. That's where we put so much

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Speaker 3: emphasis and so much work into things like the career

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Speaker 3: expos that have been running across the country. You know,

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Speaker 3: we've been operating for thirty three years. Every year there's

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Speaker 3: a new cohort of young people coming through much the

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Speaker 3: same questions on their lips every time, but they need

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Speaker 3: to talk to somebody, and that's where the owners comes

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Speaker 3: back on to us to connect and help guide and

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Speaker 3: inspire them.

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Speaker 1: CHET GP to you a good idea for your CV mark.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're helpful tools just to save, as the calculator

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Speaker 3: was when net flist came in, but I think people

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Speaker 3: still want to see the personality of each individual come through.

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Speaker 3: So they've definitely got to make use of those new

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Speaker 3: AI tools that are there, but they've still got to

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Speaker 3: let their own personalities come through. Know who they're talking

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Speaker 3: to and what they're saying, what they're looking for, how

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Speaker 3: best to engage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because only the other problem, of course will chet

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Speaker 1: GPT is once you get into the office and start talking,

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Speaker 1: they'll soon work out that it wasn't you that wrote

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Speaker 1: the CV. Mark Appreciate your time. Mark Gillard as the

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Speaker 1: director of the new Zealing Careers expos

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