Microsoft gives boost to youth employment prospects
9 November 2012
Support for measures to help young people get their first job received a boost as Microsoft announced a new programme in the UK.
The three-year long programme was announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, after he met Prime Minister David Cameron.
Fri, 9 Nov 2012
Support for measures to help young people get their first job received a boost as Microsoft announced a new programme in the UK. The three-year long programme was announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, after he met Prime Minister David Cameron.
The programme called ‘Get On’ is made up of three strands:
- Inspiring young people and building young people’s confidence
- Skilling young people through pre-apprentice training for 10,000 young people not in education, employment or training, and working with academies, and schools
- Help with getting a job by creating 4,000 apprenticeships, and matching graduates interviewed but not hired by Microsoft with jobs within Microsoft’s supply chain that employs 50,000 people in the UK.As Recruiter.co.uk reported yesterday, helping the one in five young people, aged 16-24 out of work to get their first job was discussed at this week’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Conference.
During a debate at the conference, Michael Davis, chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, suggested that one way to help young people was for employers to telephone all unsuccessful candidates to provide “evidential feedback” on their performance, and what they need to do to improve their chances of landing their first job.
Davis said, while it would only take employers “10-15 minutes to ring round”, it could make all the difference in helping those “who were second to become first’.
Support for measures to help young people get their first job received a boost as Microsoft announced a new programme in the UK. The three-year long programme was announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, after he met Prime Minister David Cameron.
The programme called ‘Get On’ is made up of three strands:
- Inspiring young people and building young people’s confidence
- Skilling young people through pre-apprentice training for 10,000 young people not in education, employment or training, and working with academies, and schools
- Help with getting a job by creating 4,000 apprenticeships, and matching graduates interviewed but not hired by Microsoft with jobs within Microsoft’s supply chain that employs 50,000 people in the UK.As Recruiter.co.uk reported yesterday, helping the one in five young people, aged 16-24 out of work to get their first job was discussed at this week’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Conference.
During a debate at the conference, Michael Davis, chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, suggested that one way to help young people was for employers to telephone all unsuccessful candidates to provide “evidential feedback” on their performance, and what they need to do to improve their chances of landing their first job.
Davis said, while it would only take employers “10-15 minutes to ring round”, it could make all the difference in helping those “who were second to become first’.
