"It really pushes my buttons when other generations say that we're doing something wrong, Sami Rasheed told The Current's Matt Galloway. [I've had] people telling me to do the things that I've already been doing and almost like not believing that I'm really putting my full effort in, or that I must be making some silly mistake. Rasheed graduated from a University of Toronto business program last year."
"But a year later, he says he's sent out roughly 1,100 applications but he only received about a dozen replies. I spent a lot of mornings just dreading getting up and putting in another eight hours applying to jobs, Rasheed said. It's hard to live your life when you don't have money, you don't have direction, and it seems like all the doors are just closed."
Young Canadians, particularly Gen Z graduates aged 15–24, face a sharp rise in unemployment and historic lows in employment rates. One recent graduate sent roughly 1,100 job applications over a year and received about a dozen replies despite strong academic performance and successful work placements. The prolonged job search produced financial strain, daily dread, loss of direction, and emotional stress. Some graduates secure short-term contracts that may become permanent, but many continue to encounter skepticism from older generations. Statistics Canada data show youth unemployment at 14.5% in August and employment among young people near a multi-decade low.
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