Only around one in four businesses are prepared to give education-leavers their first job – but when they do they find their new recruits are generally well prepared for work, a new report has found.
However, college-leavers are reported as being more “work ready” than school-leavers of the same age, the study by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills claims.
It found that just over a quarter of employers – 27 per cent – have recruited at least one education-leaver since 2011, two per cent down on a previous study conducted three years ago.
One in five employers did not recruit any young person who was applying for their first job.
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