Enternships

Government and businesses unite to back young Britain

A couple of months ago the government began to release details about their proposed ‘Graduate Talent Pool’ and Enternships was pleased…today they announced additional support for a further 10,000 graduate internships – including thousands of graduate internships with small businesses – and Enternships was absolutely DELIGHTED!

While we obviously won’t claim any kind of credit, it has to be said that this is exactly what we have been calling for…and in fact has been the entire ethos behind the very existence of our service. Providing a solution to the graduate job crisis has been our mission from the very (recent) beginning. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper’s sentiments that:

“We are determined not to lose a generation of talent as has happened in the past because of the global recession. This is why we are announcing 47,000 new jobs for young people today. And – with business and charities – we are launching a national call to action to our fellow employers to join us in Backing Young Britain – to give every young person a job, training place, skills or work experience.”

echoed our statement in a previous blog that:

“Enternships passionately believes that strengthening small business by the regular influx of talented, motivated and innovative young minds…and simultaneously inspiring enterns to start their own ventures, is key to the creation of jobs and the survival of a nation.

We know that by doing so, as far as Britain is concerned, the 2009 recession will not be remembered as a time of self-pity, recrimination and inertia, but instead as a era defined by the maxim: Fortune favours the brave.”

Similarly (and at at the risk of being accused of playing ’spot the difference’…) while Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said:

“Our national campaign to help every young person to find a job, training or work skills and experience is not just a response to the recession but an investment in our future as we build a stronger Britain.”

in the same afore-linked-to-blog Enternships also said:

“For as long as people believe in themselves and are encouraged to risk failure for the chance they will receive massive reward – there is hope for the British economy. Enternships passionately believes that strengthening small business by the regular influx of talented, motivated and innovative young minds…and simultaneously inspiring enterns to start their own ventures, is key to the creation of jobs and the survival of a nation.”

Our rhetoric may have been a bit stirring and self-indulgent, but once you look past the frills and literay flourish the core message mirrors the statements made today. Graduates undertaking specifically entrepreneurial placements within small business has clearly moved from the periphery of national conscience to the centre of government decision making…and that can only be a good thing!

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