Jobs, apprenticeships, and traineeships: Nestlé’s approach to help tackling youth unemployment
Europe is in the midst of a youth unemployment crisis as one in four young Europeans (5.6 million people in total) aged 18 to 25 are unemployed. The International Labor Organization estimates that youth unemployment across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Developed Economies reached 18.1% in 2012. A lack of vocational and educational training schemes, unprepared job applicants, and a stagnant European economy are all to blame.
Concerned with these trends, Nestlé created the ‘Nestlé Needs YOUth’ program in late 2013, with the aim of hiring 10,000 young people and 10,000 trainees or apprentices below 30 years of age in Europe by 2016. The program is introduced in the following case study.