Class of 2020, is also helping to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make use of the government’s Kickstart jobs scheme for 16- to 24-year-olds.
The programme, designed by Dr Norbert Morawetz, associate professor at Henley Business School, sees corporations such as Microsoft and Salesforce share training materials and resources through a free online portal.
It is aimed at encouraging young people, unable to find work due to the pandemic, to learn skills they would traditionally have gained through graduate and training schemes.
Morawetz said: “When the pandemic hit, it was pretty instantly clear that this would have a really big impact on all the students I was teaching who were about to graduate into this job market.
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