Fastlaners on Channel 4
Submitted by Ginny on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 13:47
"Young workers never more challenged than now"
The Young Foundation's Fastlaners programme is designed to equip smart young adults with the confidence to get jobs in a torrid market. For the past few months Channel 4's Economics Editor Faisal Islam has followed 20 graduates who are having to learn every trick in the book to get a job even an interview in Britain's flat economy.
October's figures show there are now 991 thousand 16 to 24-year-olds who are unemployed, up by 74 thousand over the summer and the highest number on record. Unemployment across the workforce is now 2.57m, up by 114,000. The worst number since the autumn of 1994, 17 years ago.
In his report Faisal commemted that "I can't imagine a more motivated selection of youth. A microcosm of a tough jobs market, thats getting even tougher."
Read the full article and watch the video clip on channel4.com
