Awful time to be in your 20s. Work wise anyway.
The unemployment rate is under 4%. Unless you’re in your 20s. Then it’s 12%.
You read that correctly.
This article on CNN (citing BLS statistics) popped up in my feed. There’s a few factors here:
👉No one wants to train employees when they can just hire people who can already do the job.
There’s plenty of data on this phenomenon. This article mentioned how training went from 2.5 weeks in 1979 to 11 hours in 1995 ...