I have a vacancy but no one wants to work!

donquine

POSSETTE wrote: »

We keep hearing about young people having no job prospects, but they dont want them!
We have had an apprenticeship vacancy offer going for a few weeks now, to learn food prep and train to be a chef.16-19 is the age range for apprenticeships, but no one has applied. If you can cook in a commercial kitchen you can travel anywhere in world and pick up a job, career for life etc...seems they dont want to work.
I will say we are a village pub and transport is needed but surely, some parents would kill to get their child a job and drive them:j

Are there any other employers out there finding the same problem?

Thinking back to when I was 16, my parents certainly wouldn't have 'killed' to get me a job in a pub in the middle of nowhere, paying £2.50 an hour before taking into account the travel expenses. (Not only do you have petrol to factor in, but but petrol prices tend to be more and more ridiculous the further out of the city you get. How much would the child actually earn per week if they paid back the parent the true cost of travel?)

My parents would have rather paid me £2.50 outright in return for me looking at my school books for an hour.

I am all for vocational training but there is nothing the OP has said to suggest that this is a genuine apprenticeship leading to a bright future for a kid who's prepared to graft. At the risk of being harsh, it sounds more like the OP can't afford to pay an experienced adult with a car and is instead trying to dress up the situation as something that it's not. Maybe I'm mistaken and this opportunity comes with paid for college training, but if so, not highlighting that is probably why the OP has had no interest so far.

I would suggest paying the going rate and getting someone in for the busier nights, rather than paying a child £2.50 to work every night.

birkee

Not bothered reading all this post, as I know it will just wind me up.

Someone offers work, and the first lot of responses offer reasons why youngsters shouldn't take it.
The mindblower?
"Youngsters can't afford to buy and insure a car to get there" Bloomin heck! I didn't get to buy a car until I was 25, and so I cycled and motorcycled to work until then. What's wrong with a pushbike or scooter?

They want to start work these days on an experienced persons salary, and have a car as a part of the package. How long before they want the house included too?

Yee Gods!

Fruitloops

birkee wrote: »

Not bothered reading all this post, as I know it will just wind me up.

Someone offers work, and the first lot of responses offer reasons why youngsters shouldn't take it.
The mindblower?
"Youngsters can't afford to buy and insure a car to get there" Bloomin heck! I didn't get to buy a car until I was 25, and so I cycled and motorcycled to work until then. What's wrong with a pushbike or scooter?

They want to start work these days on an experienced persons salary, and have a car as a part of the package. How long before they want the house included too?

Yee Gods!

There is rather more to it than that, which reading the whole post would show. Not trying to be rude, just pointing that out

wantsajob

Russe11 wrote: »

no one is priced out, the fees are loaned to anyone(if they choose to borrow) who gets a entry on a course. As well as living costs.

Plus noone ever pays anything back if they only earn minimum wage at the end of it, at least until minimum wage is raised high enough.

cabbage

wantsajob wrote: »

Apprenticeship = exploitation, bet there isn't a job at the end of it, even if the apprentice turns out to be better than Jamie Oliver.

Yes the job you get is the job you keep these days. You are still employed at the end of it with better qualifications. The old style apprenticeships used to be like this but not the new ones.

Have you advertised on connexions and the apprenticeship website? could you offer better hours to say cover lunctime and early evening?

My DD is 16 in April and we keep applying for apprenticeship vacancies but at the moment they want 17 year olds with a bit of training behind them. Transport is also an issue as the company has to be on a main bus route or train station so that she can get there independently as we both work.

SHIPSHAPE

birkee wrote: »

Not bothered reading all this post, as I know it will just wind me up.

Someone offers work, and the first lot of responses offer reasons why youngsters shouldn't take it.
The mindblower?
"Youngsters can't afford to buy and insure a car to get there" Bloomin heck! I didn't get to buy a car until I was 25, and so I cycled and motorcycled to work until then. What's wrong with a pushbike or scooter?

They want to start work these days on an experienced persons salary, and have a car as a part of the package. How long before they want the house included too?

Yee Gods!

Absolutely.

Youth is wasted on the young.

slugger09

Having been through the apprenticeship system back in the 90's I would say its nothing more than slave labour and a waste of time, I came home with £50 for a 40 hr week, got my NVQ 2 & 3 and once I had achieved them I got laid off. Now at age 30 with my apprenticeship behind me I bring home around £13K per year, same as someone else in my field who didn't do and apprenticeship. In my day it may be different now but employers got grants for taking kids on and putting them through the system, however once they qualified the grants stopped and out on your ear you went, so now we have a load of folk floating around with these NVQ's / City and Guilds or what ever that are effectively useless. All apprenticeships do is give kids who maybe cocked up at school something constructive to do rather than sit on the dole, it helps the unemployment figures.

Chas

I appreciate that the OP said he/she was offering an apprenticeship & £2.50 is the going rate for apprentices, but where did he/she say they were actually only offering £2.50 an hour?

wantsajob

Chas wrote: »

I appreciate that the OP said he/she was offering an apprenticeship & £2.50 is the going rate for apprentices, but where did he/she say they were actually only offering £2.50 an hour?

Sometimes silence speaks volumes :money:

Oldernotwiser

Chas wrote: »

I appreciate that the OP said he/she was offering an apprenticeship & £2.50 is the going rate for apprentices, but where did he/she say they were actually only offering £2.50 an hour?

You're absolutely right; another poster mentioned this amount in post #13.