Advice given to school leavers
PA Wellington It worries Sam Jamieson that youngsters are allowed to leave school to face the job market at the age of 15. “The education system is keeping up with changes in the job market — but what’s the use if a student can leave at such an early age?” he said.
Mr Jamieson has retired as director of the Labour Department’s employment services division.
"People are really not giving themselves much of a chance in life if they pull out of school so
early," he said in an in-
terview. School-leavers in the late 1980 s faced infinitely more opportunities than their counterparts did when he started work in also faced more competition for jobs — and a generally more stressful life.
“Life is less secure, but more exciting,” he said. “My advice is stay at school and get as many qualifications as you can.”
Job seekers have to be rersilient and be prepared to move about if they are to find world in the 1980 s.
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