One in six employers won't hire young people

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One in six employers won't hire young people

One in six employers deliberately exclude young people aged 18 and under with poor qualifications from the recruitment process over fears they will be useless in the role, a survey has found.


The findings come as concerns mount over the Government's decision to scrap the £1bn Future Jobs Fund for young people, which provided guaranteed access to training, a job or work experience for the long-term unemployed. MPs warned yesterday the decision to close the scheme left a "substantial number" of young people at risk, at a time of rising unemployment among the under-25s.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8217840/One-in-six-employers-wont-hire-young-people.html

end of on the job training???

avantra

So out of the 6 surveyed one will not hire, what the other 5 do? are they hiring?

Anti work discrimination laws in this country are fairly new and from reading the stats in this survey it looks to me that the large majority
(over 90%) conforms with the regulations.

But still I can't see how us in the private sector can somehow by magic create a shift in the attitude of some people to working life or shoulder all the expenses needed to train the untrainable.

markharding557

Job prospects for young people have always worsened under conservative governments so nothing new there.
As for scrapping the future jobs fund i can not understand why a government which wants to get people off the dole would want to close some of the routes to employment

Running_Horse

Our company tends to hire middle aged men, despite a lot of the work being heavy manual labour that might suit youngsters more. That is because they prefer mature people who turn up on time, turn up at all, and don't mess around or leave on a whim. When we have employed younger people they almost never last.

The solution is to stop pretending half the population can go to university, and prepare non-academic school children for the world of work.

Running_Horse

markharding557 wrote: »

Job prospects for young people have always worsened under conservative governments so nothing new there.

And what happened to long term youth unemployment under Labour?

heretolearn_2

Gee, employers don't fancy taking a punt on 16/17 year olds who have failed at school. I wonder why?

Spartacus_Mills

heretolearn wrote: »

Gee, employers don't fancy taking a punt on 16/17 year olds who have failed at school. I wonder why?

It is obviously discrimination !!!!

zygurat789

Employers would do better to hire young people, they know it all.

abaxas

A 16/17 year old or a union member.

I know what I'd choose.

wymondham

I've seen lots of youngsters applying for jobs over the last few years. I can say with all honesty that:

Even those with A* passes are often of questionable educational skills..
Many can't read and/or write correctly

Grades now mean so little that we have not looked at these for quite some time, instead choosing a short, intense probabtion period so they can be monitored - those with it in them will be successful.

I was talking to one candidate about English GCSE's and could not believe that students can now take into their exam a list of their own notes for use in the exam!! And people say exams are not dumbed down!

ILW

Add to that the maternity laws and as a employer you have to be mad to take on a young person for a responsible position.