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Louise Saviker: Student Job Search CEO on the number of students struggling to find work · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: Spare a thought for students job hunting at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Got new data from Student Job Search which shows there
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  Speaker 1: were nearly fifty thousand applications in November that is up
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  Speaker 1: thirteen percent year on year. Luis Avaca is the chief
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  Speaker 1: executive of Student Job Search and is with us now, Hi,
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  Speaker 1: Luise Mardan, hell mate, that sounds a bit demoralizing, is it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, it's fantastic to see so many applications coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Students are keen and eager to work, and the job
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  Speaker 2: market itself is recovering. So there are four two hundred
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  Speaker 2: jobs available for students in November, which is also up
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  Speaker 2: fifteen percent compared to twenty twenty four. So when we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the volume at the tail end of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, we're continuing to see really strong recovery around
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  Speaker 2: the volume for student employment. But the main issue, or
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  Speaker 2: the flip side of this, is that the student employment
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  Speaker 2: landscape has completely changed, and while we have the volumes
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  Speaker 2: back to pre COVID levels, the nature of the employments
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  Speaker 2: shifted to more short term and casual work, which means
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  Speaker 2: students need even more jobs to make up the necessary
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  Speaker 2: hours to fund their study and life.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, if I'm looking for a silver lining here,
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  Speaker 1: would it be that this kind of tough process separates
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  Speaker 1: the whek from the chaffin and sort of teaches you
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  Speaker 1: how to sell yourself to an employer.
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  Speaker 2: Well potentially, and students are so eager. You can see
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  Speaker 2: from the level of applications that students are really keen
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  Speaker 2: to be working. They're absolutely fantastic resource, they're innovative, fantastic
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  Speaker 2: problem solvers, they're just brilliant. We just hired six recently
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  Speaker 2: at student job Search and they just lifted the place.
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  Speaker 2: They're incredible. They're really hard working, diligent, they got the
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  Speaker 2: job done.
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys give the kids advice on how
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  Speaker 1: to land a job? And if you do, what is
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  Speaker 1: the key piece of advice we do?
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  Speaker 2: And we really encourage students at this tough time to
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  Speaker 2: just keep persisting. You jump on our websites, continue to
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  Speaker 2: apply for jobs, sharpen up the CV, work your networks,
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  Speaker 2: and just persist and take on any opportunity. What we
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  Speaker 2: know is that once students get a start, then it
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  Speaker 2: often leads to more work or something else down the line.
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  Speaker 1: Youah, very good advice, Louise, Thanks very much. Louis Savaca,
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  Speaker 1: chief executive at Student Job Search. For more from the
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