BRIGHT AND ARTICULATE? WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY?
The BBC is looking for job-seeking graduates to take part in a new documentary about the graduate jobs crisis.
The producers have assured Graduate Fog that the programme – which will air on BBC3 – will not be like Channel 4’s The Intern or E4’s The Work Experience, both of which have been widely criticised by users of this website for exploiting young jobseekers for entertainment value.
Instead, the programme-makers are keen to tell the real story of youth unemployment – by interviewing bright, articulate graduates who are struggling to find work since leaving university despite getting a good degree and doing all the right things to land a good graduate job.
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I think I’ll pass on this. The problem is you may be desperate but you can’t show your desperation as it puts employers off. If you were an employer would you give a job to someone whining about months of unemployment?
@Unemployed Graduate
Fair enough! Having spoken to Lauren though, that doesn’t sound like the idea for the doc at all – and lots of BBC3’s audience will be in the same boat…
This documentary is just going to be stating the obvious- a bunch of telegenic graduates working in supermarkets whining about the lack of work. Is it necessary?
All this documentary is going to show why there is high unemployment is that is high for graduates is that labour encouraged all college leavers to go to university even if you weren’t suitable for university, while all these people were in university studying there worthless degrees, the eastern Europeans came to the country and show how hard workers they are whether it be manual, unskilled or semi-skilled work and have recruited there fellow countrymen and woman so know if you don’t speak polish for example you will not get in the company .
another reason there is high unemployment is that robots and software a replacing jobs that used to be done by humans, another reason if you look at female graduates unemployment figures, the last time I looked it is slightly higher because business behind closed doors are not recruiting females when they are child rearing age.
Another reason as well of why we have high unemployment is that lots of jobs are going to India and china and the rest of Asia, but one reason that I have noticed is that all my house mates are from India and companies are contracting work out to companies that operate in India like capgemini who then bring in the Indians from there get them to work in this country and then they leave after a short while, the government should be taxing companies very heavily on firms that do this.
Unemployment numbers will be always be high in this country and I think that we are going to have to accept this and our government is going to have to accept this more and either stop bashing people who are on benefits who encourage companies with some sort of incentive to bring jobs back here.
Harsh but true
The BBC may criticise “The Work Experience” and “The Intern” – quite right, after all, Hilary Devey failed to achieve anything within Higher Education. But, lets not forget the fact that the BBC has form.
Recall the Dick Bacon programme “Up For Hire” on one of BBC3 in 2011?
Remember it? I blogged about it:
https://graduatefog.co.uk/2011/1330/youth-unemployment-bbc-love-productions/
Story ended up in lots of newspapers, including the front page of the Sunday Express!
We may despise programmes such as The Intent or The Work Experience, but We should not forget the BBC3 Programme hosted by Richard Bacon (Up For Hire, 2011) which was even more pathetic.
I emailed back to ask more about it. Was more happy with the original interview thing Lauren mentioned tbh – sounded similar to a piece on the Today programme I heard where they interviewed unemployed young Spaniards on a beach – one guy saying getting a few months temp work at an airport shop was like winning the lottery.
Hmm…publicity is a doubled-edged sword. You can stand out from the crowd – like the guy who paid for that big advert in London with a picture asking for a job which apparently led to callbacks. Or you just end up humiliated (e.g. like the reality TV contestants the audience and/or producers dislike) and worse off. So a tough one.
The last email email I received about this sounded a bit more like “The Intern” etc than the original idea of interviews.
@matthew
Very good points, particularly the automation issue which I think is definitely growing
@alexw
i would go for the BBC3 idea, it may get you a job, you have nothing to lose
@matthew Well one thing I consider I have to lose is my house in the city, since I don’t live with my parents. Although you get accommodation for the show it seems there’s no mention of pay with which to cover rent during it unless family help – would may be too much money for them. And as a participant (whether paid or not) I’d very likely be ineligible for JSA and likely Housing Benefit too.
*I mean room in a house-share in a Midlands city, not a whole house in the City of London, just to clarify