In the last few years the spotlight has been on improving links between education and business and helping improve students chances of employment. More than ever lecturers and tutors are turning to Young Enterprise programmes and business advisers to help deliver these initiatives in colleges and universities.
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Employability
Increasingly employers, in all job sectors, look for experience as well as qualifications when recruiting graduates. The Young Enterprise Graduate Programme is something that differentiates students and gives them those extra skills that are proving, more and more, to be vital when applying for jobs after graduation.
In essence, once a student has taken part in the Graduate Programme, they have set up and run their own company. The skills that the Graduate Programme develops are important in all areas - after all, Graduate Programme students have been a Company Director, they have built up contacts in the business world, carried out market research, produced a business plan, marketed and sold a product or service...all on their own initiative.
The Graduate Programme is open to all Higher Education students from any discipline however a lot of the students that currently take part are doing degrees that incorporate business in some way. With the addition of the Graduate Programme on their CVs students can demonstrate they have both academic and practical understanding and skills.
Entrepreneurship
The future prosperity of the UK economy is dependant on developing the competitiveness of our business community. Politicians, business leaders and education forums are placing increasing emphasis on enterprise and preparing young business people of the future for working life.
Young Enterprise’s Graduate Programme enables students in Higher Education to learn from setting up and running their own company. It also helps them gain an understanding of the potential of SME’s as future employers, and to consider self-employment and business creation as possible future career options.
If students do wish to continue their business or are thinking of setting up their own business further down the line, then the Graduate Programme acts as an invaluable taster.
