According to the International Labor Organization's recently published Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report, the global youth unemployment rate was estimated at around 12.6 percent in 2013—close to peak unemployment during the financial crisis. How can we improve these numbers?
INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:
[Diplomatic Courier:] What is one thing that could be done to help address youth unemployment?
[Stephan Lancrin-Vincent:] Making sure that what’s offered by the education sector is much more aligned to what the companies are looking for would be one way to make it really happen. So giving a much closer experience of what it means to be working in a company, so having much more collaboration between the education and the business world. It’s already happening in some ways, but perhaps these could be improved in some areas.
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Stephan Lancrin-Vincent of OECD: Addressing Youth Unemployment
January 29, 2014
According to the International Labor Organization's recently published Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013 report, the global youth unemployment rate was estimated at around 12.6 percent in 2013—close to peak unemployment during the financial crisis. How can we improve these numbers?
INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:
[Diplomatic Courier:] What is one thing that could be done to help address youth unemployment?
[Stephan Lancrin-Vincent:] Making sure that what’s offered by the education sector is much more aligned to what the companies are looking for would be one way to make it really happen. So giving a much closer experience of what it means to be working in a company, so having much more collaboration between the education and the business world. It’s already happening in some ways, but perhaps these could be improved in some areas.
