It looks like it has become very difficult for teens in the surrounding Vancouver area of Canada to get a job. (Vancouver is Canada's 3rd biggest city, and is the biggest city on the west coast) It's so hard to get a job as a teenager, honestly I have given up. : r/VancouverJobs - September 2024 These are some posts that appeared in a thread on Reddit: ipswitch_ It's REALLY tough right now, for everyone. Bug people you know who already have jobs, having a little inside help goes a long way for hearing about openings and having HR hear something nice about you before you walk in. I’ve been trying to do that, but it seems nearly impossible for some reason sry kid, everythings kinda ****ed. Its not you, theres simply nobody hiring. dezinator My teenage siblings and my friends siblings are struggling to get jobs in the lower mainland, been 1 year of no responses. The entry job market is awful right now. Yeah, I’ve been looking for over nine months smh Elegant-Meringue-373 My daughter too can’t find a job. It's awful! It really is sad, my dad was talking about how easy it was for him get his first job Top-Bookkeeper-3581 The reason is mass immigration is being subsidized. The government helps cover the wages paid to immigrant hires. Immigrants get paid in full, and the company doesn't have to pay the full wage due to government subsidizing. It's why you see Indian workers everywhere. Another factor is there are a lot of immigrants, or children of immigrants power positions, who only hire their own race. Pretty much all entry level or lower skilled jobs will be handed out to non citizens Government of Canada website shows their guideline. They cover 60% of wages paid to non citizens People on welfare lose 50% of each dollar paid beyond their welfare amount. I highly doubt government is subsidizing that. jeffryu I bunch of people thought Trudeau would be our savior and voted him in 8 years ago, now housing is three times more unaffordable and we have had a tsunami wave of thousands of foreign workers come in and they all work the entry level jobs that Canadian high school kids would have been hired for before. Munchie0711 I was on a local flight from Vancouver to Toronto. And 9/10 people are Indians. I thought i was in india. haokun32 I think it's time to just print off a stack of resumes and drop them off at local businesses in your area. It's definitely hard, but someone out there is hiring. I think a lot of employers are looking for someone with experience, no one wants to be someone's first employer anymore, and we're seeing that across every industry. Even uni grads who have internship experience are getting passed on for a recently laid off employee with 1-2 years of experience. Its really depressing.... Youth unemployment on the rise in B.C.: Statistics Canada : r/vancouver - March 2025 I'm in the "youth" I guess. Finding a job is brutal. I have a bachelor of science and have given up on finding an intellectually stimulating job. Even minimum wage jobs are really hard to come by. This seemed like a very good post: Top-Ladder2235 and I think that you’ve also identified something that is going to impact Gen Z. Early Burn out for those launching into straight into careers under 25-28 and not have had the opportunity to have life experiences of entry level type jobs, travel, roommate, experiences. There is a little room to dick around so to speak and test the waters to find out what you are into. Financial climate doesn’t allow for it. Working a series of **** jobs, getting fired, quitting, having the ability to save up money to go **** off and travel or even just party a way a year or two is actually character building. These are the things that help make you into a fully developed adult. They are what make people interesting. I know 15/17 year olds who are plagued by anxiety about what they are going to do in order to make a living wage and be able to afford to move out and live independently. This isn’t something that previous generations struggled with. Youth unemployment on the rise in B.C.: Statistics Canada - CBC News - Jan 17, 2025 The youth unemployment rate rose by 4.5% in December 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Cassandra Ogalino, a second-year political science student at the University of British Columbia, has been searching for work since last summer. Despite sending out over 120 job applications online, Ogalino says she has yet to secure a permanent position. "I felt like I really wasn't getting anywhere, and I just didn't know what was wrong with my resumé," she said. "I think I got called in for interviews probably two or three times." Though she landed a seasonal job at the Pacific National Exhibition as a lottery vendor, it lasted only a few weeks. (Vancouver is the population center of the province of British Columbia)
