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Zainab Ali: Youth Inspire CEO on the falling number of jobs filled by 15-19 year olds · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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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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