{"id":302768,"date":"2025-12-16T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-arent-companies-hiring-young-people-applying-for-their-first-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:00:31","slug":"why-arent-companies-hiring-young-people-applying-for-their-first-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-arent-companies-hiring-young-people-applying-for-their-first-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t companies hiring young people applying for their first jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/TFLN7EuP5kQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why aren't companies hiring young people applying for their first jobs?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TFLN7EuP5kQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>There are almost a million young people out of work or education, but many have told Reporter Lewis Denison it&#8217;s not because they aren&#8217;t trying.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are almost a million young people out of work or education, but many have told Reporter Lewis Denison it&#8217;s not because they aren&#8217;t trying. \u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj \u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/ Follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[129589,129219,129163],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-302768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-almost","tag-million","tag-there"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why aren&#039;t companies hiring young people applying for their first jobs? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why aren&#039;t companies hiring young people applying for their first jobs? for free, here on News ISC. 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