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Speaker 1: We got insight from our next batch of university graduates,

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Speaker 1: who it turns out, not only confident about their job prospects.

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Speaker 1: This is a study that says one in five twenty

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Speaker 1: percent are very confident, which I assume means eighty percent

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Speaker 1: not so confident. Talent Solutions Director Sarah Wilson is with

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Speaker 1: us on this very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Would we say not confident? Why would you not be confident?

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Speaker 1: If you go? I mean it depends very much. If

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Speaker 1: you're going to get a med degree or a law degree,

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Speaker 1: You've got a job for life, basically, haven't you, and

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Speaker 1: you should be confident.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, you're exactly right with the introduction. We do

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Speaker 2: have over eighty percent of students emerging with little to

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Speaker 2: no confidence about their job prospects. And look, students are

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Speaker 2: very dialed in to the current economic climate and understand

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Speaker 2: the link that when our economy is in flash, then

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Speaker 2: that has a direct impact on the number of job

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Speaker 2: opportunities available. So the key message is that we do

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Speaker 2: need government and industry continuing to invest in programs to

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Speaker 2: develop our young people. And matter is because if we don't,

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Speaker 2: we will continue to lose our young people across the

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Speaker 2: Tasman and that will make our businesses less competitive.

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Speaker 1: Do you think with your experience it's any worse than

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Speaker 1: it has been in any other economic downturn or not?

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Speaker 2: Great question. This is the worst level of confidence that

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Speaker 2: we've seen since we asked the question in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: We have also seen in this year that unemployment is

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Speaker 2: the number one concern for students, and that was the

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Speaker 2: concern back in twenty twenty when we were in COVID.

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Speaker 2: So look, I think it is certainly worse and we

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Speaker 2: as a country need to be providing opportunities to graduates

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Speaker 2: or they will leave.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. I think something happened during profoundly happened during COVID,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of us got sort of down in

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Speaker 1: the dumps about it, and that would apply I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: to just young people as well. They see a big,

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Speaker 1: wide world and a lot of opportunity in it.

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Speaker 2: Look absolutely, and I think when organizations are facing cost pressures,

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Speaker 2: graduate internship programs can find themselves at the top of

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Speaker 2: the schedule for pruning that. Ultimately, as a country, we

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Speaker 2: need to be investing in young people otherwise they will

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Speaker 2: make the choice to go abroad. We know that Australian

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Speaker 2: salaries are much higher to about ten to fifteen k

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Speaker 2: higher on average than graduate salaries here, so it's definitely

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Speaker 2: something that we need to be investing in as a country.

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Speaker 1: Like you're insight well, then Sarah appreciate it. Sarah and

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Speaker 1: Wilson Talent Solutions directly. For more from the mic Asking

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