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Orianna Rosa Royle

The job market in Britain is ‘so ridiculous’ that this maths graduate applied to over 1,000 jobs and still didn’t hear back—so he moved to Austria

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Gen Z and millennial workers in Britain are so fed up with being ghosted by employers that some are giving up on the country altogether. One graduate with a maths degree says he spent more than a year applying to over 1,000 roles in the U.K. without landing a single offer—only to secure a job in Austria within weeks.

“The job market in the U.K. is so ridiculous,” Anna, his Austrian-born partner, said in a TikTok video that’s now resonating with thousands of frustrated young workers. “Even for qualified people, it’s so hard to find a job.”

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