In Conversation With Lauren Mistry – How to Recruit and Retain Young People to Your Business

  • Date: 28/06/2022
  • Time: 10:00am – 10:45am
  • Location: Online via Zoom
  • URL: Event Link

Join us for this informative webinar where Youth Employment UK’s CEO, Laura-Jane Rawlings will interview our Director of Strategy, Impact & Communications, Lauren Mistry. Lauren is a leading expert in youth insight, recruitment and outreach with more than 12 years experience, which includes leading recruitment and attraction campaigns for national employers, leading 5 years of the Youth Voice Census and leading the development of our own website which is visited by more than 250,000 young people per month.

Youth Employment UK are experts on youth employment and unemployment. Our expertise, services and advice is centred around what young people tell us they are experiencing, and what they want and need. We understand the root causes of youth unemployment, what works and what doesn’t. The insights that we gain directly from young people ensures that we are ideally placed to understand the complex landscape facing young people and employers. We receive over 250,000 page views on our website each month and as a not-for-profit social enterprise we have over 50 years collective experience in youth employment within our senior leadership team.

About this webinar

In this webinar you will get to find out what really works when it comes to recruiting and retaining young people to your business including, hearing insights on the following topics:

  • Job adverts and person specifications
  • Where you advertise
  • Candidate journey
  • Website application
  • How organisations can benchmark best practice against the five principles of the Good Youth Employment Charter which are: 1. Creating opportunity, 2. Recognising talent, 3. Fair employment, 4. Developing people and 5. Youth voice.

Youth Employment UK’s series of ‘In Conversation With’ webinars:

  • Are aimed at Employers, HR Managers, Recruitment Managers, Training Managers, CSR Professionals, Early Careers, and Talent Attraction professionals
  • Hear from expert guest speakers who will join youth Employment UK’s CEO Laura-Jane Rawlings
  • Offer advice, guidance and practical insights with the areas causing confusion in the youth employment sector.

How do we support young people and employers?

Youth Employment UK provides support, and actively tackles youth unemployment by:

  • Giving young people a voice on the youth employment issues that affect them
  • Supporting young people with the skills and careers support they need to progress
  • Supporting employers to develop and be recognised for their youth friendly employment practice
  • Connecting young people to Youth Friendly Employers
  • Providing expert insight across all youth employment policy areas.

Any Questions?

Contact Youth Employment UK via telephone 01536 513 388. You can find more information about working with us at www.youthemployment.org.uk/youth-employment-experts.

Further Information

Find out more about this event by calling us on 01536 513388
or emailing us at info@youthemployment.org.uk
or visiting the event website

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