Appeal for youth jobs launches
Human resources professionals’ institute the CIPD has launched a campaign to boost youth employment and remedy the damage done to young people’s job prospects by the pandemic.
The One Million Chances campaign aims to persuade employers to create opportunities for 18 to 30 year olds through jobs, internships, work experience, apprenticeships T-Levels or the Kickstart scheme.
In support of the initiative, the CIPD pointed to a survey that found 43% of 2,064 young people questioned felt the pandemic had harmed their long-term career prospects.
It also found that one in 10 (14%) young people not in work had applied for more than 30 jobs in the last three months. The organisation also quoted official figures which showed there were 166,000 fewer young people (16-24) in the UK in employment in June 2021 (3.7 million) compared with March 2020 (3.9 million).