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The Employment Event of the Year!

On 3rd December 2024, we held our annual Good Youth Employment Symposium and Awards event. A moment of celebration and insight as policy-makers, employers, HR leads, recruitment and talent specialists joined to listen to thought-provoking panels and celebrate the wins of Youth Employment UK employer members who excelled in the Good Youth Employment Benchmark.

If you missed the in-person event, download the slides and get a copy of the Good Youth Employment Symposium brochure.

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The Award Winners

Explore the key moments and insights from the symposium. Hear from winning employers who completed the 2024 Good Youth Employment Benchmark. Being the first of its kind, the digital benchmark tool requires employers to do a deep dive into their youth employment strategies, closely inspecting outreach and engagement strategies, as well as employment and work experience practices. Discover the employers that excelled in the data-driven benchmark tool and picked up the prestigious awards.

Explore Award Winner: Haven

Experience Award Winner: Careers in Racing

Employment Award Winner: Molson Coors Beverage Company

Corporate of the Year: Severn Trent

SME of the Year: Coach Core

The Panels

Joined by a variety of speakers, catch up on the thought-provoking panels that covered, the current Youth Employment Landscape, insights from the Good Youth Employment Benchmark, and separate panels for its three core pillars of Explore, Experience and Employment.

Panel 1: The Employment Landscape

Panel 2: Benchmark Findings

Panel 3: Explore

Panel 4: Experience

Panel 5: Employment

 

With Thanks to our 2024 Sponsors

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About Youth Employment UK

Youth Employment UK is an independent, not-for-profit social enterprise founded in 2012 to tackle youth unemployment. As experts on youth employment and unemployment, we are ideally placed to understand the complex landscape facing young people, educators, employers, and policymakers.

Press enquiries should be directed to info@youthemployment.org.uk