APA has today joined CIPD in warning that recent headlines, which associate voluntary unpaid work experience with slave labour, are in danger of discouraging employers from offering placements and denying young people a route into permanent employment.
APA asserts that good quality work experience provides an invaluable way for young people to build key skills and gain a foothold in the labour market. It is also a way for young people to develop and display the right attitude and work ethic that will help them to secure permanent employment.
However, employers also have a responsibility to offer high quality work experience schemes that provide real opportunities for young people to increase their employability. To this ends, CIPD with Jobcentre Plus published guidance in 2011, Work Experience Placements that Work, to help employers develop effective work experience schemes for 18 to 24 year olds that benefit both the young person and the employer.
Gareth Osborne said: “With ful time jobs for young people at a premium it is even more important than ever before that we enable good work experience opportunities to fuel their ambition, passion and understanding of what employers want when they go head-to-head with others for vacancies.”
Gareth Osborne said: “With ful time jobs for young people at a premium it is even more important than ever before that we enable good work experience opportunities to fuel their ambition, passion and understanding of what employers want when they go head-to-head with others for vacancies.”
APA encourages all of its Members to challenge their employer’s policies and practices and make sure they offer great experiences to young people.
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1 comment:
Some of them can be really lazy and would arther be anywhere else (and often are!). They then become a real drain on enthusiasm and goodwill.
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