Gaby Hinsliff could also be proper to hyperlink the present lack of starter jobs to current will increase in minimal wage and nationwide insurance coverage prices for employers (Do you bear in mind your first crappy job? In the present day’s younger individuals would need for half your luck, 20 February). However there’s extra to it.
Within the 250-plus years between the invention of the water-powered spinning jenny and synthetic intelligence, now we have developed expertise and method with the first purpose of decreasing the variety of individuals essential to make use of for a given quantity of output. On a finite planet, the quantity of output should ultimately stabilise. We can not keep for ever the notion that everybody should have a job with the intention to be allowed to have a life.Donald SimpsonRochdale, Higher Manchester
Studying Sumaiya Motara’s article on job interviews (The brutal hunt for low-paid work: ‘It’s like The Starvation Video games – however for a job folding garments’, 18 February) jogged my memory of my interview for the submit of head of humanities in a secondary fashionable faculty in 1971, the place I had a pleasant chat with the headteacher for half-hour, after which he mentioned: “Properly, I suppose I’d higher ask you a technical query.”
On the premise of my reply to his technical query, I bought the job. I think that the private relationship constructed up over that 30 minutes instructed him extra about me than any take a look at, quiz or sport taking part in might have carried out. And one facet of my position concerned coaching pupils to cope with job interviews.Brian ThomasMarden, Kent
The behaviour described by younger jobseekers in Sumaiya Motara’s article echoes the findings of the Milgram experiment in 1963, which examined the premise that nearly anybody will inflict struggling on one other individual if sanctioned to take action. Corporations utilizing such metrics to determine recruits for work that manifestly doesn’t require such scrutiny or due diligence ought to pay attention to the reputational hurt they’re more likely to incur.Gavin Greenwood Brighton, East Sussex
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