however youth need to recognize that parttime work in their field or entrylevel jobs for which they may feel overqualified can be important steps on the pathway towards longterm career development and as such can arguably be considered decent work internships and apprenticeships in particular may only offer lowwage or parttime employment but can provide youth with valuable job experience as new entrants as well as onthejob training and skills development that will serve them well as they build their skill sets and careers young people who are not financially secure are pushed into temporary seasonal and parttime work to meet their basic needs ilo