Special Report: The plight of London's jobless youth

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An unemployment epidemic has taken hold of London’s jobless youth.
As Covid hit in March 2020, young people in the capital found themselves in precarious circumstances. They were the least likely to die from Covid, but had their schooling, education and social life ripped from them.
Despite a record high of 1 million job vacancies in the UK, 1 in 8 young people are unemployed and cannot get a job.
Youth unemployment dwarfs all other age groups around the country, London has been hit hardest with more than 1 in 5 16-24 year-olds jobless.
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@jasondevon481 2 жыл бұрын

One of the main reasons is because they have been duped into going to university without a plan and now find themselves with a useless degree, but no actual skills.

@deanwal1962 2 жыл бұрын

You are right. You can bet that the ones employed are the ones who started in employment after leaving school. Not only do they start earning sooner, they also save a mint on student loans and tuition fees. The way the young man called Paulo spits out the phrase “I had to resort to a third party company, just hiring people for retail…” indicates to me that he has overly high expectations. Perhaps rather than feel sorry for himself he should take any job or even volunteer in order to pad his CV out.

@garyfifield5858 2 жыл бұрын

ITS MODERN SLAVERY WITH BENEFITS THAT TRAP YOU TILL YUI DIE

@TheTruthIsFiction 11 ай бұрын

@@deanwal1962 If you don't have high expectations, you wouldn't need to do a degree. I have two degrees and I took any job because there were not many graduate jobs. I'm still doing that "any job" today decades later. You don't need to read or write in that job. There's no future in it. If you work in retail or factories, you stay that way forever unless you miraculously break out of it.

@LabRat6619 2 жыл бұрын

Too many people in this age bracket engaged in crime in the capital.

@nrclever8167 2 жыл бұрын

Actually I support the practical apprentice courses instead of going to the college to study the practical courses instead . I have met some so called gas engineers and they went to the local colleges but did not gain much experience and they thought they knew it all . And two young engineers could not fix my neighbour s boiler and the number three experienced one fixed it in ten minutes .

@engineeringvision9507 2 жыл бұрын

ok boomer

@TheTruthIsFiction 11 ай бұрын

Tradespeople are not engineers. Engineers do not fix boilers. That's physical labouring.

@AddyEspresso 4 күн бұрын

Why is an engineer fixing your boiler? Just about any handyman could do that. The thing has already been designed it doesn't need any engineering done.

@gms_oo6796 4 ай бұрын

Two years later and nothing has changed. These companies will lose in the long run if they continue to choose not to develop young talent.

@taipizzalord4463 2 ай бұрын

Yes it has, it has got much worse.

@jacksugden8190 2 жыл бұрын

So pleased that had recently retired on a full state pension at 66.

@Da1Dez Жыл бұрын

I don't want to ever retire.

@aliensinmyass7867 Жыл бұрын

@@Da1Dez you're a slave

@Da1Dez Жыл бұрын

Just think when all us young people become old... wonder what the voice of the country will be like then?

@giani1680 2 жыл бұрын

Young people must leave that shot coty, where you work only to give your money to greedy landlords. in uk they can find way cheaper and modt hospitable cities

@keifer7813 4 ай бұрын

But then there's less common and less well paying jobs, less outside the city

@Irraticdriving Жыл бұрын

Many ads but no jobs Or use them for few month's Many are used

@biulaimh3097 2 жыл бұрын

Paulo should flip burgers. Just start working. The rest will follow.

@MatthewChapmanYT 2 жыл бұрын

His dads rich too,. That’s bad 😂

@RomanAugustus 2 жыл бұрын

"They don't have the skills or experience" - what uttter RUBBISH!!

@johngreena4151 2 жыл бұрын

@@davis7099 What narrative are you trying to push that seemingly favors the establishment?

@mt_gox Жыл бұрын

@@johngreena4151 uhhhh... that gen z's are worthless trash? 😉

@rulebritannia3147 2 жыл бұрын

They wanna just apply at Tesco's

@rduggan2011 Жыл бұрын

i am not homeless, but i may be in 8 weeks, all i need is £400 a month to pay rent, and that is very cheap for uk, i am just fighting to stay in my house. i do not want any more, just the 400 for rent, food i can get my eating like rice. please give me job too., i can give people jobs, i need expand my business, or need job offfer

@susanelliott2287 2 жыл бұрын

Is it really CAN'T get a job, or WON'T get a job? It depends if people are really prepared to do anything. In our area I know places where you can interview in the morning and start as soon as you get DBS clearance I think sometimes young people think they are worth much more than they really are. 1.2 million jobs and young people are saying they CAN'T get a job? Really

@johngreena4151 2 жыл бұрын

Propagandist!

@susanelliott2287 2 жыл бұрын

John Greerna 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Sad. Point proven.

@constancedavies4565 Жыл бұрын

Have some empathy

@susanelliott2287 Жыл бұрын

John Greema. You may be love, you'll get over it. Truth hurt?

@susanelliott2287 Жыл бұрын

Constance Davis. I do get what they are saying, but surely it is better to take a so called lowly job and get work experience. I have known people who have started a job as a shelf filler, taken internal promotion and become area manager. Sometimes from the bottom up is the only way.