Chris Grayling Quotes

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

I never could get a proper job.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.

I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.

I'm very good at being out of work.

Employment for the younger generation is my top priority.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

As a general rule, when your child, or anyone in the work force, doesn't know what he/she wants to do, they should instead always be developing skills and competencies that will qualify them for the jobs that companies are most looking to fill and increase their hireability.

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

There has been little to no attention from policymakers to the economic inequalities young people face. Instead of job creation policies, our country's youth are faced with tuition hikes.

Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you - you don't really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.

We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

Unemployed people should be treated as potential to be realised, not a problem to be solved.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.