From improving your youth employment offers to accessing expert advice and hosting early career vacancies, here are five reasons for employers to work with Youth Employment UK.
Here at Youth Employment UK, we are proud to work with numerous employers who have signed up for Youth Employment UK Membership across many different sectors. All our members commit to the Good Youth Employment Standards. Young people know our members share the goal of helping future and early talent into positive, rewarding work opportunities. This includes many organisations which provide apprenticeships.
Here are five great reasons to become a Youth Employment UK Member and work with us.
1. Improve the quality of your youth programmes
Young people are at the heart of everything we do as a non-profit tackling youth unemployment. We speak to them directly and involve them in our work at every stage. As a result, we have an in-depth understanding of their wants and needs, the barriers they face, and the things they value in work and education. It is why we are the voice of youth employment.
When you sign up for membership with Youth Employment UK and get in touch for bespoke projects, our experts will help you assess and improve the quality of your youth training, employment and work placement programmes. We will help you to identify ways to become more youth-friendly in your approach.
As a result, you will benefit from a larger pool of high quality candidates for your early career jobs and opportunities. Your young employees will also be happier and more fulfilled at work, improving your retention rates and ensuring they always want to bring their best to work.
2. Access free expert content for members
We offer a vast array of free insights into best practice for all things youth employment, from attraction and recruitment to retention and development. Your organisation can enjoy a stronger relationship with your young apprentices and employees.
Our membership content database contains resources on inspiring young people at the start of their careers, offering work experience placements, best practices in employment, and much more.
As an early careers provider, you have a number of obligations to fulfill. Our advice will help you to ensure that your early career programmes are legal, effective, efficient, and achieves their goals. Our custom advice for members who work with us even more closely will help you shape your young talent offer into the best it can be.
3. Advertise your job vacancies for free
Youth Employment UK Membership offers additional packages such as Organisation Profiles with unlimited opportunity for posting vacancies and opportunities on our Opportunity Finder. You’ll be entitled to advertise your jobs, placements, early career workshops/events and opportunities to the 200,000 engaged, ambitious young people who visit our site every month.
4. Gain the Youth Friendly Employer Badge
Youth Friendly Employers are those who, like us, put young people at the heart of everything they do. This includes those that offer training opportunities such as apprenticeships. When you become a Youth Employment UK Member and commit to the Good Youth Employment Standards, you will be awarded the Youth Friendly Employer badge.
Many young people are looking for this badge when it comes to choosing employers they want to work for. It gives them confidence that they will be valued and appreciated at your company and that you understand their needs, challenges, and what they can bring to the table.
5. Join high impact events
We love celebrating the good work of our Membership network. That’s why we get involved in events like National Apprentice Week and put on our annual Youth Friendly Employer Awards, which recognise the very best in youth-centred employment.
Joining our events helps to get your business name in front of more young people who are looking for early career opportunities, increasing your pool of qualified candidates and boosting your reputation as a Member who is comitted to good youth employment.
Would you like to know more?
If you have any questions about the benefits of Youth Employment UK membership, get in touch and we will be pleased to help.
We look forward to supporting your organisation.
