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There are three major problems facing the youth around the world today: Unemployment, Student Debt and Education.
Whether they’re being called Generation X, Y or something else for that matter, many of today’s youth are defined by these factors. Quite simply, the youth of today could be called ‘Generation Unemployed’, ‘Generation Debt’ or even ‘Generation Uneducated’.
So much so that all over the world there are graduates without work and with the added responsibility of massive student loans hanging over their heads.
Read more: ‘Generation Unemployed’, ‘Generation Debt’ and ‘Generation Uneducated’
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According to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Global Financial Stability Report, the current global financial status is a balancing act of sorts.
This means it’s in the best interest of businesses to generate as much business / revenue as they can, thus creating the ability to employ individuals. Further, it is important to realise that many people cannot afford to quit their jobs. This often means if there’s a large exit of staff, they’re often leaving for reasons out of their control – in other words, retrenchment and retirement.
Read more: Trying to decipher the graduate employment market
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A FirstStep.me Feature
About this time last year we had decided, yes FirstStep.me had decided, that 2014 was going to be a year full of awesomeness. Sadly though, for every high there was potentially more than one low. This year has been a period of ups and downs to say the least. With the FirstStep.me team always seeing the proverbial glass being half full, we again boldly predict that 2015 is going to be one filled with super awesomeness!
That paragraph right there is filled with a lot of awesome.
When we look back on 2014, the business and finance world was rocked by a single story that weighed in at about – I don’t know – about 25-billion Dollars. The Alibaba IPO proved to the world that the East means business. American singer Taylor Swift also removed her music catalogue from Spotify, which shook the music industry a little bit. However, none of these news stories came anywhere near the announcement that student debt in the USA reached the trillion Dollar level! That’s big money.
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The world used to be a much simpler place when compared to the hi-tech, on the go multi-media global village we find ourselves in today. Before the Nintendo Game Boy, the rise of the Internet and the growth of graduate recruitment programmes things were, well, just simple.
Read more: That competitive edge: The evolution of the Good Grad
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A FirstStep.me feature,
According to the World Food Programme (WFP.org), “Hunger Kills more people every year than Aids, malaria and tuberculosis combined.”
What lessons can be learnt from Rock Star Chefs in solving world hunger.
Many, and I mean many, moons ago cavemen hunted and gathered their way to sustenance. Survival was indeed the priority of prehistoric times, while cooking was quite simply down to the raw basics!
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