Opinion on youth unemployment?

So you came with a skill and experience? That's totally different to finding your first job. Don't say it's easy to find a first job if you have no knowledge of looking. I've not given up. But no-one will employ me.

Immigrants are not to blame but there are those, known as 'gastrobitors' (sorry if that's written wrong, its a German term) who employers value more because they are willing to do more work for less pay whereas natives probably won't settle for that (which is correct in my opinion).
These people are not doing us any good.
On the other hand, certainly not all immigrants are like that.

The sad thing is that the majority of people in the UK will believe the figures that have been coming out. Youth unemployment and unemployment in general has dropped recently and the conservatives are coming out and claiming that it's evidence that they're doing things right. The truth is that the UK have followed what Germany do (a country with very low unemployment rates) and pushed people back into education (including making education compulsory until 18 next year) and onto schemes that train people further. All of those people are no longer classed as unemployed because they're in education and not actively seeking work, so the figures drop.

The government aren't helping to provide enough jobs and they're not helping the situation by allowing an open-door policy, meaning that the jobs that are available are open to a wide array of qualified/unqualified workers. All of these back to work schemes are making things worse in my opinion. It's making the job market far more congested and fills it full of people with qualifications which makes getting a job that bit harder because everyone is skilled and companies are spoilt for choice.

The only way to fix this is to restrict immigration; give British graduates first crack at skilled jobs. But as we know, restricting immigration is a controversial topic and the only party that seems keen on doing anything about it is UKIP. Whether they can run a country or not is an entirely different question.

Stop no one is going to feel sorry for you,it's not 'gastrobitors fault but yours,I myself am a gastrobitors ,in order to have experience you have to work for less money....

It really irritates me how people don't work hard at all during school and then wonder why they've done bad in life and promptly blame the government and criticise immigrants.

Work hard, get a good education, which rational people can refuse you a job?

That's completely wrong what you are doing, in fact illegal. You are working below the minimum wage, of course you'd find it easy to get a job!

Work hard, get a good education, which rational people can refuse you a job?

The thing is, there are a huge majority of people who do just that and more but still nothing.
Not every unemployed person is a chav who failed his GCSEs.

The market is currently over saturated with people applying to low skilled labour jobs. The issue is because of geographical & occupational immobility people can't find jobs, or are unwilling to do jobs that they don't want too. Minimum wage also adds to this issue but youth unemployment is still an issue because people who don't have the qualifications can't find a job, but it's wrong to just put them at fault (some people do try hard at school and unfortunately don't do that well). The government does still need to try something though

This exactly. Don't listen to the other guy it is hard for most people. I've been searching for a year and I've only done work temping so far its better than nothing at least you get experienced have you tried that.

The rational person who has 17 other applicants to pick from? There are 18 applicants per vacancy on average in the UK, that's 17 people getting rejected, however hard they worked at school.

Go to school, try hard, walk right into an entry level job and support yourself hasn't been true for decades. Unfortunately policy is still being determined by people who grew up when it was true, and who blame the young for the change in circumstances rather than admit that the world is different now.

Thanks. It's hard enough to be looking for work and be ill at the same time. It's made worse by people telling me I'm a lazy scrounger when all I want is to be able to pay my way.

A friend of mine applied for work experience at a newspaper, she has already been published in various newspapers and magazines and she got rejected!! It's like the guy with 7A*'s getting rejected from Oxford all over again. And on top of it all, it was merely work experience...it was not like she applied for a job!!

This really got to me and highlighted the absolute low the country has come to.

All those English graduates have got to do something..

If I remember right, the reason being the high level universities had accept a certain amount of A*, A and B tier students

You are lazy I don't feel sorry for you ,it's your own fault stop blaming others for you problems...

Is it possible that we have over-produced on university graduates? There are wayyy too many universities around and most people tend to go on to university nowadays thereby increasing in numbers. Disadvantaging those who did not go to university, which aren't necessarily any less talented or intelligent.