REC advises more youth help
Employers and recruiters have been urged to play a pivotal role in developing more internship programmes and creating frameworks and standards for operating these schemes, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC’s) Youth Employment Taskforce report.
Among the recommendations aimed at tackling spiralling youth unemployment, the report, launched this week, also calls upon recruitment agencies to promote internships to their clients.
The report acknowleges that the recession has caused employers to become increasingly ’lean’ with little spare capacity to manage such programmes. It calls on government to provide assistance to employers on how to run these schemes.
Employers and recruiters are also urged to invest resources in partnering with education providers to provide “world-class career guidance”. Recruiters are urged to give value-added expertise to job centres and careers services such as offering candidates advice on CVs and interviews.
