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Kate Ross: Swivel Careers founder on students struggling to find summer jobs amid increased competition · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Students are struggling to find summer work, with enormous amounts
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  Speaker 2: of competition in the job market and businesses not taking
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  Speaker 2: on as many applicants. At the moment, Retail New Zealand'sa's
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  Speaker 2: Retailers had seen a much higher caliber of people applying
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  Speaker 2: for jobs. Kate Ross is the founder of Swivel Careers,
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  Speaker 2: which helps seventeen to twenty five year olds find work,
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  Speaker 2: and she's with us now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Kate, Hi, how's it going?
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  Speaker 1: Very good?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you? What's going on here? Why kids finding it
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  Speaker 2: hard to find jobs?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the economy right now is just so tough. So
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  Speaker 3: even people with qualifications, you know, are finding it hard
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  Speaker 3: to find work. So, you know, further down the food chain,
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  Speaker 3: when you've got students who've got far less experience, these
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  Speaker 3: less opportunities, and.
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  Speaker 2: So as a result, you've got people people further up
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  Speaker 2: the age brackets, presumably further up the experience chain, they're
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  Speaker 2: unable to find work. That coming down pushing the kids.
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  Speaker 3: Out, That's exactly right, and there's just not enough work
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  Speaker 3: out there now. With the economy that's been so slow
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  Speaker 3: all year, the opportunities even for you know, the retailers
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  Speaker 3: of hospitality, that's all slowed down, and that's generally where
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  Speaker 3: you know, the students out of school get their their
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  Speaker 3: weekend and their holiday work. So with university students now
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  Speaker 3: leaving and less opportunities to go into corporate work, they're
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately having to fall back onto that retail works, which
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  Speaker 3: also isn't there. So there's a really big group of
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  Speaker 3: individuals that are struggling to find employment.
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  Speaker 2: Worst you've ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's right up there. Like I managed a
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  Speaker 3: company through the recession, it was different because obviously in
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  Speaker 3: the recession there was no jobs for anyone, and there
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  Speaker 3: was organizations just closing left, right and center. But for
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  Speaker 3: kids right now, for students right now, to find work,
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  Speaker 3: it's really really tough. There's hundreds and hundreds of applicants
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  Speaker 3: applying through second training just for that one role. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I mean we're talking about in some of the
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  Speaker 2: cases right we will be talking about school aged kids.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to break their lives as it if
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  Speaker 2: they don't find to summer job. But I imagine for some
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  Speaker 2: of them. Are you're getting up there in the twenty
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  Speaker 2: five five year twenty five year old? That is actually
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  Speaker 2: quite significant, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: It's really significant. And what we're also seeing is there
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  Speaker 3: there are a lot of people that are leaving university
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  Speaker 3: and groups and just thinking, do you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just going to head to Australia hoping there's work over
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  Speaker 3: in Sydney in Melbourne because there's nothing here. And that's
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  Speaker 3: how they're thinking at that young age. Normally we get
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  Speaker 3: at least a couple of good years in the New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand market before they decided to their oe, but they're
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  Speaker 3: now thinking, right, there's packs. I'm thinking, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing here for me, So I'm just going to
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  Speaker 3: go across the burch and see if I can find something.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Kate, so I've got a text you saying actually
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  Speaker 2: students are looking in the wrong place for work. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a student myself. There's plenty of jobs in ag and
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  Speaker 2: horticulture picking fruit and such.
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  Speaker 3: So say that Christian again, sorrow a must it.
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  Speaker 2: So somebody's text in saying, actually there are plenty of
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  Speaker 2: jobs available in agriculture and horticulture doing things like pecking fruit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, there's always that need because obviously at
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  Speaker 3: this time of year with the summer coming on. But
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  Speaker 3: that is that if you be your career then great,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a role that you can get as a
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  Speaker 3: summer role. But not everybody lives in the whole spay
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  Speaker 3: or lives in those fruit picking districts. So yes, there's
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  Speaker 3: there's probably the opportunity there, but that's not going to
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  Speaker 3: help everybody. There's a lot of people out there in
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  Speaker 3: the cities and small towns that rely on that hospitality,
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  Speaker 3: retail tatwork to keep them going and a little bit
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  Speaker 3: petty cash.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough. Kate, thank you for talking us through
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  Speaker 2: to appreciate It's Kate Ross Swivel Careers.
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