On Thursday 5th Nov, World Update will come from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS. We're looking at the growing disillusionment of young people, many of whom feel that however hard they try, however dedicated they are to their studies, they will either spend a long time unemployed or have to lower their sights and get a much less prestigious and exciting job.
I'd like your experiences, and your questions to our expert guests, including David Blanchflower, who has warned that the figure of one in five under-25s currently out of work in the UK is just the "lull before the storm" as graduates and school leavers enter a tough job market.
We'll hear from graduates on the job hunt, a recruitment consultant with tips to make you stand out from the crowd, special reports from Spain and Japan (two places credit-crunched more than most) and what happens if you decide NOT to get qualified? We'll hear from Zahra and Chris who both chose the non-university route and who are crucially, both working full-time right now.
And what about those who come to developed countries for a better future? How has the economic downturn hit people like Ibrahim from BangladeshView image?
Please use the comments to tell us your story and put your questions.
BBC iD is the new sign in system for BBC Online. Its currently being rolled out across all services that require a user to register or sign in.
On Monday November 2nd we'll be switching all of the BBCs blogs to BBC iD from the previous BBC membership system. And in the New Year our message boards and other communities will be heading down the same route.
By March 2010 BBC iD will be the single sign in for all BBC Online services. If you have an existing BBC membership account for blogs, message boards or other services at some point in the next few months you will be automatically prompted to upgrade to BBC iD.
We do need to replace the old system, but we don't underestimate the inconvenience the transition will represent for some of our users. We apologise for this and hope that you will find the service improvements that BBC iD will support over the coming months for example, working on mobiles - make it all worthwhile.
We've tried to answer the questions you may have about the new system here.
If we've missed anything, please let us know. Most users should be able to upgrade their account from a BBC membership to a BBC iD when prompted with a minimum of fuss.
Well be keeping you up to date with the roll-out of BBC iD via the BBC Internet blog. We're also using the Internet blog as a early test of the new system so please do leave a comment below.
NB: There's one thing you will need to think about if you have more than one BBC membership account.:
If you have more than one BBC membership you'll only be able to upgrade one of those accounts to BBC iD using your preferred username and email address. That BBC iD account will retain links to your previous membership account and any comments and posts you made using it. So if you have more than one BBC membership, make sure you upgrade your favourite one.
We'll have the UK marketing manager in our studio to discuss the launch of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7. I bought it this week, I've had some problems. How about you?
Please put some questions in the comments on this blog, and I'll put as many of them to him as there's time for.
ALSO: spent most of the day recording interviews around East London with Bangladeshi students who are looking for work - they have student visas supported by colleges that are sometimes little more than a room above a shop. When times were good, they could find work in London and send money home. Now they can't find jobs and are in trouble.
This will be part of our special programme in a week on the higher levels of unemployment in many countries amongst educated young people as a result of the global recession.
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