 Youth unemployment in Ireland currently stands at 12.7% according to a report done by Collins McNicholas. This figure is twice that of the national average which has been falling steadily over the last number of years. The report called youth unemployment stubbornly high and called for a new internship programme to tackle the problem. We asked DCU students about their experiences trying to find a job. You can find jobs but it takes a bit of time, it should be a lot easier. I think that young people themselves need to kind of grab the situation of youth unemployment by the scruff of their neck and really get out and take a long out of themselves and say am I doing enough to go out and actually find a job. If you kind of have a full time schedule for university your hours are so limited because it's just for the weekend and a lot of the time they don't need people for the weekend, it's during the week they need some. I really do think that skills should be done more. We have career guidance and skills but that's not, that wouldn't be region standards either. We done a project before the National Youth Council where we actually went into the Department of Education and we were telling career guidance teachers what we taught personally of the education system and how we think that career guidance should be made better. That was put into the pre-budget submission, a call for more career guidance teachers and how that would support young people in relation to CV tips, interview techniques and just generally going out because we don't want to be told there's adverts or there's this kind of website out there for you to go apply. They need solid advice as to how to go about finding a job. Consider things like volunteering which could be aligned to what you're interested in. So again, looking at that way maybe working for non-governmental organisations or it could be film festivals and things like that to build your CV up. So there's internships but there's also other ways you can gain valuable and relevant work experience and that could be through volunteering.