{"id":608224,"date":"2026-05-28T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608224\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:38:09","slug":"more-than-one-million-young-people-not-in-work-or-education-as-report-warns-of-lost-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608224\/","title":{"rendered":"More than one million young people not in work or education as report warns of ‘lost generation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Hard’ and ‘humiliating’: Young people on their experiences of trying to get a jobpublished at 08:53 BST<\/p>\n

08:53 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Zoe Conway
Employment correspondent<\/p>\n

Zaynah, 24, has suffered from physical ill health and has not had a job since leaving college. Over the last year, she’s applied for more than 200 jobs and says she’s never heard back from any of the employers.<\/p>\n

“Getting a job is very hard because with my issues, I haven’t got that much experience, I’ve never worked before,” she says.<\/p>\n

“So I feel like it’s restricting me and I’m not getting jobs.” She says she’s planning to start doing some volunteering so she can improve her CV.<\/p>\n

\"ZaynahImage source, Spear<\/p>\n

Luke, who studied product design at the prestigious Central St Martin’s University, cannot find a job despite trying hard.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old has applied for more than 400 positions and has only ever had one interview as a cleaner which he did not get.<\/p>\n

”It’s humiliating,” he said. “You think ‘okay I’ve got all the knowledge, I’ve got all the skills, all I’m waiting for is a job to put it in practice.”<\/p>\n

“It makes you depressed especially the amount of rejections.” He said he had no choice but to claim benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Hard’ and ‘humiliating’: Young people on their experiences of trying to get a jobpublished at 08:53 BST 08:53…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-608224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608224","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=608224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}