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Speaker 1: It is harder for young people to get a job

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Speaker 1: at the moment, basically because there are a fewer of them.

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Speaker 1: Data from stats n Z shows nearly thirty thousand jobs

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Speaker 1: have disappeared from the job market in the last year.

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Speaker 1: On average, people under thirty have a five point eight

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Speaker 1: percent fewer jobs available than they did last year. Zainab

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Speaker 1: Ali is the CEO Youth Inspired with me this morning, zaneb.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? Thank you. Now your job

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Speaker 1: is to get young people into work, especially those from

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Speaker 1: poorer backgrounds. What are you seeing at the moment? Are

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Speaker 1: people a young people as prepared for work as they

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Speaker 1: have always been or is this a hard market for them?

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Speaker 2: We are definitely feeling those stats in real life. It

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Speaker 2: is definitely harder at the moment to secure a job

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Speaker 2: as a young person compared to two to three years ago.

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Speaker 2: We've had to completely change the we work at yath

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Speaker 2: Inspire to ensure we still have ample, uh you know,

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Speaker 2: opportunities for our young people. So our change in tactic

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Speaker 2: has really been a reflection of how much harder it

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Speaker 2: has gotten out there.

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Speaker 1: What have you changed saying it?

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Speaker 2: I think really we've we've shifted completely away from you know,

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Speaker 2: back we've been around for eleven years and Ryan, back

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Speaker 2: in the day, we could kind of go through these

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Speaker 2: amazing courses where we where we upskilled down anatahi and

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Speaker 2: you know, some of the really important soft skills that

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Speaker 2: employers tell us that they need, work with them on

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Speaker 2: a CV and a cover letter and kind of get

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Speaker 2: them into the job market very relatively easily. Compared to now,

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Speaker 2: we've had to completely you switch, and we now, i

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Speaker 2: would say, in the last six months, have one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent relied on job opportunities through our relationships, through with

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Speaker 2: our small to medium business partners and the goodwill of

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Speaker 2: our local community.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, why is that Is that because the old

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Speaker 1: way of throwing in a CV and a cover letter

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Speaker 1: to a random job is just not working anymore. There's

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Speaker 1: ter many applicants.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty much You've nailed it. That's exactly

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Speaker 2: what we're finding. On top of that, what we're seeing

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Speaker 2: employers tell us is for entry level jobs is also

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Speaker 2: a mass kind of run of overseas applications that come through,

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Speaker 2: and so employers are almost you know, it's a form

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Speaker 2: of fatigue, right, and you know, they go through seventy

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Speaker 2: applications before they get to the first one that's possibly

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Speaker 2: a local application. And so you know, internet based, you know,

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Speaker 2: websites like seek and trade me allow for a lot

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Speaker 2: of you know, applications that are just not suitable, and

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Speaker 2: so that paired with the fact that we do have

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Speaker 2: higher unemployment rates. For instance, Ryan, I've got a job,

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Speaker 2: you know, currently advertised, and the applications I'm getting, arguably,

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Speaker 2: I would say these are really overqualified candidates, you know,

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Speaker 2: that are applying for a more administration like jobs. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of two pronged, but essentially there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of people and not enough jobs, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: No, it makes perfect sense exactly what we're seeing in

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Speaker 1: the numbers and obviously reflected on what you're doing on

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Speaker 1: the grounds, iain't never appreciate your time This morning, Zain't Never,

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Speaker 1: Ali's youth Inspired. For more from earlier edition with Ryan Bridge,

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