Youth representatives are calling for the upcoming national budget to address worsening graduate skills mismatches and underemployment, as AI and digital technology continue reshaping the job market faster than career training can keep pace. This matters because it highlights growing pressure on policymakers to fund reskilling and upskilling partnerships with industry, while also tackling cost-of-living and housing pressures that push young workers into jobs unrelated to their qualifications. Employers, training providers and industry bodies may be affected if stronger public-private partnerships emerge to fund AI-related upskilling programmes, with the budget's actual measures to be revealed when it is tabled in the coming days.

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