Employment is one of the important concerns for #YouthStats. Having a job means opportunities for both personal and professional growth and financial security and the ability to provide for yourself. Thus, being involuntarily unemployed can have consequences for both your personal finances and your sense of self-worth.
concerns bekymringer/ bekymringar
Revisit Teen Challenges in the UK, page 118, Issues in the USA, page 156, and Industry in the USA, page 178.
ability evnen/evna involuntarily ufrivillig
EMPLOYMENT Unemployed or working poor
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Globally 600 million jobs will be needed over the next 15 years
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self-worth egenverd / verdi i seg sjølv
25% of the total working age population is youth
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age 15-24
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2/3 of youth in developing economies are without work, not studying, or are engaged in irregular, informal employment.
13% youth unemployment
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3x adult unemployment
WRITING KEY WORDS 4 Study the Employment infographic and make a key word list of the most important information.
SPEAKING 5 How would you feel if you had to move to a different city or country to get a job? Why do you think this is more common in some countries than others? 6 Work in groups. Visit the #Youthstats website and each choose a separate issue within your group to study further. Make an oral presentation and present your issue to the rest of the group based on the infographic.
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provide sørge for / sørgje for
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(UN)employment
Globally many university graduates are overqualified for their job.
Each month nearly 1 million people enter the labour market in India alone
“If we fail to tackle the youth jobs crisis, we will be destroying hopes for sustainable growth and sowing the seeds of further, and perhaps deeper social unrest” Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labour Organization
SOURCE Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth 2019. Employment. UN.org
WRITING 7 Write a one-paragraph summary of the Employment infographic. Use key words from task 4 for support. 8 Understand job adverts to improve your chances of getting a job. See page 80 for more help. a Find an online job advert in Norwegian for your profession and translate it into English. b Find an online job advert for your profession in an Englishspeaking country and translate it into Norwegian. c Make a double bubble on the Norwegian and international advert. What are the similarities and differences in form, content and language?
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