Conference to help young people's employability

Of the Island’s 1,014 unemployed, 396 are young people aged 24 and under. 

It was estimated at a recent International Labour Organisation meeting that the effects of the euro crisis will have spilled over to emerging economies, pushing youth unemployment to almost 13% by 2017. 

With this in mind the Department’s of Education and Children and Economic Development organised the conference in an effort to make young people aware of the skills they will need for success in the work place. 

Tony Wild MLC told us that the Island’s greatest commodity currently is its people.

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