Being resilient and self-motivated helped me find opportunities

By Youth Ambassador Laurence As a young person who has been brought up in a rural area (Skipton, North Yorkshire), […]


What is it really like to… do a maths degree at uni?

Maths uni student Holly tells our  Youth Ambassador how she feels about her maths degree, uni life and career future… […]


5 Easy Ways to Gain Work Skills

By Kenechi Eziefula 1. Fund-raising (street, door-to-door, phone) Becoming a fund-raiser can be character defining. It sharpens your people skills […]


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Ready for that interview? You need this skills checklist!

By Kenechi Eziefula See how you do with this handy checklist for interviews! Can you tick off all the items? […]


Meet YEUK’s newest Member Skillbright

What I did about Youth Employment & Why by Egle Vinauskaite, 26 from London I graduated in 2011, which was […]


At the IntoWork Convention 2015

By Jack Welch Youth Ambassador It would be an almost impossible task itself to try and encapsulate two entire days […]


Diary Of A YEUK Apprentice – July Update

So now we are entering July I have been at YEUK for just over a month now and things are […]


Glass ceilings – Apprentices and Graduates are both victims of their own success

By Youth Ambassador Michael Tran With a Government target of ensuring up to three million apprentice starts, we need to […]


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5 Ways to Prepare for an Interview

By Kenechi Eziefula 1. Research the company Many companies have almost all their information online. In order to impress your […]


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Filming at OCR


A generation of unease

Response to the OECD Skills Outlook Development 2015

By Youth Ambassador Jack Welch The publication of this year’s Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Skills Outlook results […]


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Diary Of A YEUK Apprentice – June Update

I have now been working as the social media apprentice for Youth Employment UK (YEUK) for four weeks now and […]