{"id":595853,"date":"2026-05-21T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:39:09","slug":"ai-and-ghosting-leaves-young-south-east-jobseekers-discouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595853\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and ghosting leaves young South East jobseekers &#8216;discouraged&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ONS estimates show 729,000 people aged 16 to 24 were unemployed between January and March, up from 620,000 a year earlier, while the youth unemployment rate rose from 14.2% to 16.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ONS said there were 2.5 unemployed people per vacancy across the UK between January to March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claimant count figures from ONS\/Nomis show the rates of young people claiming unemployment-related benefits in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Hastings, 625 people aged 18 to 24 were claiming unemployment-related benefits, equivalent to 10.7% of residents in that age group \u2013 the highest rate in East Sussex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanet had the highest rate in Kent at 11.7%, Crawley was highest in West Sussex at 7.5%, and Spelthorne was highest in Surrey at 5.9%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The overall South East rate (4.9%) was below the UK average at 5.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONS estimates show 729,000 people aged 16 to 24 were unemployed between January and March, up from 620,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}