Generation Covid: What professional future for young people!

With the economic recession resulting from the confinement, it is the young people who will pay the heaviest price, whether in the form of unemployment or indebtedness,” philosopher André Comte-Sponville declared in April in an interview for the Swiss daily newspaper “Le Temps”. His words highlighted a problem already widely discussed in the foreign press: What professional future for young people in the post-Covid era? In Australia, journalist Caitlin Fitzsimmons spoke a few days earlier of a generational gap, with on the one hand the victims of covid, mostly elderly, and on the other the victims of confinement, these young people to whom would fall the heavy burden of reimbursing a ecological, economic and social debt contracted by previous generations. In this article, translated by “Courrier International”, the figures speak for themselves. 

In France, the punch formulas flock to the media to describe this age group whose professional integration is jeopardized by the health crisis. Unprecedented conditions which only reinforce an existing feeling of anxiety: they were already 28% to say they were worried about their future professional in 2013, after three years of active life according to the Center for studies and research on qualifications ( Cereq). Today, some have the impression of being at a real impasse. This is the case of Maïlys, 28: “I don't go out anymore, I'm depressed, I regret my choices, even though I'm passionate about my studies. I don't want to do anything else but life doesn't agree. Graduated with a Bac + 5 in Art Market Management, the young woman feels discouraged: “I canvassed auction houses, galleries, start-ups