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Mark Gillard: NZ Careers Expo director on job opportunities declining for young Kiwis · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Brian Bridge, it's tough to be a young job seeker
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  Speaker 2: right now. Sixteen percent of the fifteen to twenty four
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  Speaker 2: year olds in New Zealand currently out of work, sixteen percent.
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  Speaker 2: Gen z economist Brad Olsen from Informetric spoke to Nick
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  Speaker 2: Mills about this issue on news Talks. They'd be Willington
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  Speaker 2: Mornings earlier today.
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  Speaker 3: We know that if you're under thirty, your job chances,
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  Speaker 3: your job opportunities are just so much more heavier hits
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  Speaker 3: than any other part of the economy.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Giller, director of the New Zealand Creers expot with
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  Speaker 2: me now, Hey.
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  Speaker 4: Mark, Hey, how are you right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Good, thank you. Good to have you on the program.
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  Speaker 2: How tough is it out How tough is it out
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  Speaker 2: there for people? Young people?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Look, it's obviously very tough. I mean there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things going on out there for young people
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  Speaker 4: to navigate these days.
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  Speaker 2: And who I mean is there anything that they could
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  Speaker 2: be doing better or is it just market conditions?
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  Speaker 4: But market conditions aren't helping obviously. Those stats that Brad
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  Speaker 4: quoted earlier on today they show a pretty tough environment,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean it's never been particularly easy for young people.
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  Speaker 4: They need to lean on the resources that are out
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  Speaker 4: there to help them navigate their way through. I know
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  Speaker 4: Brad made the comment it's not the fault of young
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  Speaker 4: people that it's so tough these days. But while it's
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  Speaker 4: not necessarily anybody's fault, the owners is certainly there on
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  Speaker 4: employers on industry organizations to engage with young people these days.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's been a propensity to step back and
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  Speaker 4: meet the internet that we'll be talking, but we know
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  Speaker 4: face to face engagement with young people is what really
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  Speaker 4: inspires them. That's what helps them connect and know what
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  Speaker 4: their options are. That's where we put so much emphasis
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  Speaker 4: and so much work into things like the career expos
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  Speaker 4: that have been running across the country. You know, we've
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  Speaker 4: been operating for thirty three years. Every year there's a
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  Speaker 4: new cohort of young people coming through much the same
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  Speaker 4: questions on their ups every time, but they need to
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  Speaker 4: talk to somebody, and that's where the owners comes back
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  Speaker 4: on to us to connect and help guide and inspire them.
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  Speaker 2: Chet GPT you a good idea for your CV Mark, Well,
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  Speaker 2: they're helpful.
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  Speaker 4: Tools just to save, as the calculator was when that
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  Speaker 4: first came in. But I think people still want to
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  Speaker 4: see the personality of each individual come through. So they've
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  Speaker 4: definitely got to make use of those new AI tools
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  Speaker 4: that are there, but they've still got to let their
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  Speaker 4: own personalities come through. Know who they're talking to and
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  Speaker 4: what they're saying, what they're looking for, how best to engage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because only the other problem, of course with chat
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  Speaker 2: GPT is once you get into the office and start talking,
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  Speaker 2: they'll soon work out that it wasn't you that wrote
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  Speaker 2: the CV.
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  Speaker 1: Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate your time. Mark Gillard as the director of the
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand Careers expos.
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