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History shows school leavers' job prospects are often hardest hit after this kind of economic slump.
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This BBC article looks at the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the job prospects of the young, and notes that already many of them have been laid off, and for the remainder, the future looks bleak.
The worry is that this is likely to result in hysteresis, a situation where the unemployed are out of work and seeing their human capital eroded, making them less employable, and, ultimately, potentially resulting in people leaving the active labour force and being permanently excluded from the world of work.
Past evidence suggests that economic shocks such as this one, are likely to have this effect, and that is likely to make a V-shaped recovery less likely.