Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/tough-times-for-young-job-seekers-20120302-1u721.html#ixzz1nvFagRlr Future first home buyers? lol
If young people are having trouble finding jobs, imagine what it is like for skilled people in their 50's and 60's that are shut out of the employment market.
We saw the same thing happen at the start of the last major recession in this country. Except this time, there's no Youth Access Centre to help these kids out. They're on their own...
Im only 30, but when 18 year olds say they will do "any job" they dont mean any job. They mean they will do any job they WANT to do. They refuse to do anything manual or menial. So if offered a cleaning job they will refuse it. There are plenty of jobs in WA, they just need to apply.
When I was a teenage late 90s early 2000's there was plenty of work available, cafes, market gardens,warehouses, container unpacking etc. Kids are just fussy these days. You need to go out there and create the circumstances to get the opportunities, not sit on your ass expecting to be handed a job.
The risk of doing "any job" is that you'll take the first job that comes along and lo and behold you can only get work in that field because "that's what you are" (as if you are a job)
I know it's regional but 3 of the local cafes I frequent can't get any staff and if they do they last on average about 2 weeks. They've had ads in the window, ads in the paper, and two have tried employment agencies. One is shutting down because of it. Youth unemployment in our area is above 25% apparently. Doesn't make sense to me. malachii
Could someone buy a house on the wages that they are offering? Assuming of course that the employee saved a deposit with some of the money left over after they've paid the landlord, paid utilities, put food on their table, put petrol in their car etc etc etc. If wage < mortgage repayments on a house less 10% deposit then yeah, wages is to low because according to housing bulls house prices are reasonable.
Youth should take anything they can get, its not like they will be doing that same job their whole lives, the workforce has changed. You need to have a variety of skills / systems to get a foot in the door.
Investigators at a major research institution have recently discovered the heaviest element known to science. This startling new discovery has been tentatively named Administratium (Ad). This new element has no protons or electrons, thus having an atomic number of 0. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistant vice neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it an be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years; it does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons, vice neutrons, and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. In fact, an Administratium sample's mass will actually increase over time, since with each reorganization some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that Administratium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as the "Critical Morass." You will know it when you see it. http://pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu/jjb/administratium.htm
I thought admin was doing all the office paper work and misc. crap. Somebody's gotta do it so it's kinda a job, like toilet cleaning is a job.
Yeah, i dated a girl that told me she "worked" in "admin" Her "job" was to answer the phone and file "stuff" It was a very important part of her life and all about "teamwork" :| I have a friend in admin and she is known by her colleauges as the "facebook queen"
There was probably a huge demand of aministration personnel during the Enron and Arthur Andersen scandal with tonnes of documentation being shredded to avoid discovery ... i love doing paper "work" How much of Enron's dirty data was lost when the Twin Towers were destroyed?
LOL In my current role I manage a team of back office admin staff. Its a funny team, some of the staff are on good wickets depending on their financial background expertise/qualifications.
