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Kate Ross: Swivel Careers founder on students struggling to find summer jobs amid increased competition · The SME Stream

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