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Name: | Kate Rogers |
Age: | 19 |
Year of the Fix: | 2013 |
Location: | Cornwall |
Campaign: | Tackle youth unemployment |
Where I live, there seem to be a lot of young people who are unemployed. A lot of my friends are unemployed, and I was too for around one year after leaving college.
Applying for jobs is difficult enough sometimes, but finding the enthusiasm to persist becomes harder and harder once rejection letters come in. It really knocks your confidence.
Young people do want to work, and my friends and I feel that many employers are scared of employing young people due to lack of experience on paper. But in reality young people are just as able as anyone else. All they need is a start.
That's why we are creating a CV pack, which includes a unique 'top trumps' set which highlights our key skills, expertise, and interests in one handy resource.
We hope this will simplify the job seeking process, and prospective employers will be able to see exactly why they should employ young people.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with this Fixers campaign:
Aston Shaw
Jason Pook
Charlotte Boakes-Stapleton
Tyler Tumbarella
Ellie Langler
Rebekah Gillespie
Our local job centre has been supportive of our project.
Shano
'Kate'
Macauley Collinson
Ethan Mcinally
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Sam Womack
Tilly and Bella
Becky Thorn
Jo Quinn
Sam Barakat
Becky
Fern Lulham
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Kiki
Meghann
Olivia G
Fixers
Alexandra Garrick