{"id":486989,"date":"2026-02-18T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:24:10","slug":"soul-destroying-young-jobseekers-on-the-struggle-to-find-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486989\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Soul-destroying&#8217;: Young jobseekers on the struggle to find work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyn98nkgpzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Businesses argue that<\/a> government policies, including a rise in the minimum wage, have pushed up their costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But beyond that, employers are also increasingly citing artificial intelligence (AI) as the reason for layoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI is able to take on some time-consuming work such as processing data, implementing detailed instructions, or writing basic reports and communications,  tasks which are often associated with first-job roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said that &#8220;for young people in particular, already struggling to get their first taste of work, AI could result in a scarcity of entry-level posts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many jobseekers are also using AI to write applications, to help them increase the number they can apply for. Hiring teams are in turn using it to screen CVs \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ced6jv76091o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and, in some cases, even conduct interviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businesses argue that government policies, including a rise in the minimum wage, have pushed up their costs. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-486989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}