in many years it has been nearly double the national average rate youth have also been strongly affected by the growing incidence of nonregular forms of work freeter status avoiding commitment to a stable job in the s was often seen as a choice of lifestyle but more recently attention has focused on the problems of freeters who are unable to find a permanent job in order to support young unemployed and freeters who wish to be employed as regular workers special counters have been established at hello work offices to support the search for regular employment by holding seminars and jointrecruitment events onetoone consultations and guidance by fulltime staff exploring job offers and placement services and guidance on adaptation to workplaces after being employed in addition job cafes onestopservice centres for young people were established in to provide integrated counselling training and guidance services see box