Young People’s Alternative Career Pathways: A Discovery of Purpose for Young...
If social policy does not support young people who want to enter employment and therefore gain some form of adult status and continued biography after finishing compulsory education, how will this...
View ArticleDon’t call me NEET!
I was having a conversation with half a dozen other youth professionals yesterday and mentioned my dislike for the term NEET, an acronym for ‘Not in Employment Education or Training’, most often used...
View ArticleThe Future in your Hands: Entrepreneurship as a model for Youth Empowerment...
I remember the shock of my first formal job interview. I was fired with questions about leading a team, showing my initiative, resolving disputes – and my mind went completely blank. Looking back, it...
View ArticleJourney to Employment
Yesterday, I attended the launch of the NPC/Inspiring Impact project on the ‘Journey to Employment’ (JET) framework. Subtitled ‘A guide to understanding and measuring what matters to young people’,...
View ArticleReflections on NEET young people
The media is full of statistics about young people being unemployed. Statistics are important and give the picture. Do we stop to think about the young people behind the statistics? Young...
View ArticleWhy every young person should have a coach
It seems these days that everyone has a coach, I have one, my colleagues have one, my friends have one, even Richard Branson has one, and now finally young people can have one too. Like wheels on...
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