THE QUESTION
Why do young people leave town to find a job?
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There is no single person in the school to ring
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
The qualification is two years old and the software changed twice
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
The training provider taught a syllabus, not the job
We are twenty minutes from the school and might as well be abroad
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
We asked to visit and never heard back
The council asks us for skills forecasts we cannot make
We cannot afford the time it takes to train someone from nothing
Meaning the recurring case, not one incident.
We train them and the city pays more
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
The last three we trained left within a year
We would take four a year if someone organised it
The bus does not reach the industrial estate before eight
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
Half the applicants do not turn up to the interview
The jobs here do not need what school taught
The school sent us the pupils they wanted out of the building
The levy money exists and we cannot work out how to spend it
Nobody stays for a wage this town can support
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
Recruiting takes the owner's evenings
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
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One bad placement cost us a week of a supervisor
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
Insurance and the age rules make under-eighteens hard to place
Our order book is three months long and their plan is five years
Each of us solves this alone and badly
There is no employer group here that anyone convenes
We are a firm of nine and have no HR department
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Nobody told them what the job actually involves
The careers teacher changed three times in two years
Nobody in a position to hire ever visits a classroom
We hire on attitude and cannot test for it
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
A driving licence is the real entry requirement and nobody says so
Rent near the good jobs eats the wage those jobs pay
Careers advice is one afternoon in the final year
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
The paperwork for an apprentice takes longer than the interview
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
Nobody has ever asked us what we would need to take a school leaver
The work is seasonal and a young person needs a whole year