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Giving young people the skills to find work

David Grailey

By: David Grailey

Chief Executive

Friday 22 February 2013

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Business leaders are well known for their criticism that too many young people are leaving school without adequate skills and lacking in important employability skills.  They suggest that young people are leaving education have poor standards of literacy, numeracy, communication and problem solving skills.

With nearly a million young people still classed as NEETs it is vital that we work together to ensure their talent and potential is not wasted.  This is why it’s particularly heartening to read about the additional funding that has been secured by sixteen providers from the Apprenticeship Application Support fund run by the Association for Employment and Learning Providers on behalf of the National Apprenticeship Service.

Through this investment up to 17,000 young people will be supported on to apprenticeship schemes; support will include practical skills such as interview preparation and CV writing which will help raise the quality and success rate of applications for such vacancies.

Here at NCFE we are delighted to launch our latest range of Job Search and Employability Skills qualifications on 4th March; these qualifications build on the success of our Job Search and Interview Skills qualifications, delivering a programme of activities that research shows can help to your learners to be up to three times more likely to be interviewed, recruited, retained and promoted.

It’s only with the right skills and mindset can young people break the chain of worklessness, creating benefits not only for themselves but for society as a whole.

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