UN)employment

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.

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WRITING KEY WORDS

4 Study the Employment infographic and make a key word list of the most important information. SPEAKING

Unemployed or working poor age 15-24 Globally 600 million jobs will be needed over the next 15 years

13% youth unemployment = 3x adult unemployment EMPLOYMENT 2/3 of youth in developing economies are without work, not studying, or are engaged in irregular, informal employment.

Globally many Each month nearly university graduates 1 million people enter are overqualified for the labour market in their job. India alone

25% of the total working age population is youth “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

concerns bekymringer/ bekymringar Revisit Teen ability evnen/evna Challenges involuntarily ufrivillig in the UK, page 118, provide sørge for Issues in the USA, / sørgje for page 156, and Industry in self-worth egenverd the USA, page 178. / verdi i seg sjølv SOURCE Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth 2019. Employment. UN.org

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. 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.Vurderingseksemplar 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?