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A disproportionate number of new vacancies are currently being offered to young people. There are currently 453,000* job vacancies in the UK. Yet there are only 7,950** apprenticeship positions, not all of which are offered to young people.? In addition research shows that just 1 in 5 UK employers recruit 16-18 year olds directly from education.***
Young people not in employment education or training (NEETS) cost the economy ?11 billion a year with additional costs incurred because they are more likely to become long term unemployed. They also earn less over their lifetime, suffer harmful effects on their individual happiness and health and are more likely to have a criminal record then young people in employment.****
Speaking to an audience of 400 delegates made up of business leaders, international delegates and over 100 young people at World Skills 2011 in London today, Business in the Community?s Chief Executive Stephen Howard said: ?Young people represent a massive pool of untapped potential for UK businesses and their continued exclusion from the world of work has serious consequences to both business and society ? with each picking up the bill. Our own members employed employ 16 million people in England alone ? yet offered just 18,909 new apprenticeship places between them in the last academic year, compared to a national equivalent of 326,000. This is not enough.
He continues: ?Businesses must dramatically transform their talent and skills strategies to ensure they are attracting skilled young people into their workforces by prioritising young people; being flexible and innovative in their recruitment and employment methods; offering inspiring work experience placements; opening up recruitment to non graduates and creating work places and roles that meet the needs of young recruits. We challenge our members, and all businesses to ensure the future prosperity of our talent pool and the UK by creating much needed jobs and apprenticeship places for young people.?
The audience, which included chief executives from BT, Barclays, Allen Overy, Marks Spencer and Whitbread, were gathered for The Big Conversation, a Business in the Community initiative which brings school pupil?s and apprentices face to face with chief executives for frank one-on-one discussions on careers and routes to employment. Taking place at World Skills for the first time, The Big Conversation 2011 is part of Business in the Community?s Work Inspiration campaign, which works with leading business to break down barriers to employment while giving young people, meaningful positive first experiences of the world of work through quality work experience and apprenticeships.
Steve Holiday, Chief Executive, National Grid said: ?With youth unemployment rising to a million, and our talent pool drying up, responsible businesses have the capacity, if not a duty, to open up the avenues and create new opportunities to attract young talent.? An important first step would be to make a radical change to how they approach the first introduction to the world of work by offering quality work experience that it is both relevant and inspiring.?
Business in the Community has asked Big Conversation 2011 participants and its wider membership to commit to the following pledges:?
1.?Review the way in which they currently offer work experience and interact with young people
2.?Use the Work Inspiration three insights to ensure that all interaction with young people is inspiring, relevant and meaningful*****
3.?Identify and open up new channels to recruit non-graduate talent
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For more information about Business in the Community?s Talent an Skills campaign visit http://www.bitc.org.uk/skills
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*ONS Vacancy Survey September (June-August 2011)
**National Apprenticeship Service
***The Youth Inquiry, Employers perspectives on tackling youth unemployment. March 2011 http://www.ukces.org.uk/ourwork/youth-inquiry
****Elmfield Training Limited
*****Based on a number of Insights gathered from discussions with young people, employers and representatives from the education sector, Business in the Community have? developed 3 simple insights to help employers plan and improve the work experience programme they offer. These are:
1.?All About Me? ? A glossary tool that provides questions for you to use in the conversation with the young person, an opportunity for you to discuss what they?re interested in and good at, inside and outside the classroom.
2.?Look Behind the Scenes ? A matrix to relate personality types to a full range of roles in an organisation and routes to them and an opportunity to discuss the variety and scope of opportunities in your world of work.
3.?Careers Happen ? An opportunity to illustrate how careers unfold: how opportunistic the nature of career progression can be and often developing in a non-linear way.
Article source: http://www.bitc.org.uk/media_centre/bitc_news_press_releases/young_talent.html
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