Honouring God in a really tough employment market

Cassie Martin  |  Comment
Date posted:  30 Jan 2026
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Honouring God in a really tough employment market

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Youth unemployment is currently running at just under 16%, with the graduate job market being particularly hard hit.

Last year the Financial Times ran a story with the headline “It’s been a terrible year to graduate and find a job” where they highlighted that the graduate job application success rate is the lowest it has been for 30 years.

I have recently bumped into three of my former students who graduated last summer with good degrees from good universities who are back at home working in their previous Saturday or holiday jobs while trying and failing to get onto the career ladder.

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