The CIPD has teamed up with Jobcentre Plus to launch a new work experience guide to help employers raise the quality of work experience available to young job seekers.
A new guide published by the CIPD and Jobcentre Plus, 'Work experience placements that work', is designed to encourage more employers to provide meaningful work experience to help young job seekers get a foothold in the labour market as the economic downturn has hit young people harder than any other group.
The guide offers employers help on giving young people, aged between 18 and 24, their first positive and practical experience of work. It is designed to support the Government’s initiative, Get Britain Working, and quality work experience is at the core of the advice, with recommendations on how to:
- structure the work experience
- devise a work plan around appropriate tasks,
- support and supervise,
- provide constructive feedback and
- help the individual enter working life.
It also contains a checklist for the employer running a placement and a ‘Work Experience Agreement’ that can be signed by the employer and the young person, helping to ensure commitment on both sides.
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