Employers aren’t short of willingness to hire. They’re short of confidence that a hire will work out and that they can afford the risk.
The Chancellor should do three things. First, make the Growth and Skills Levy flexible enough to fund assessment and development, not just formal training.
Second, ease the cost of hiring first-time and early-career talent, and back employers who use validated, skills-based selection over CV pedigree.
Third, give young people a way to show what they can do. Nearly one million aged 16–24 are not in education, employment or training, and most have little work history to point to.
“Hire on potential, not pedigree, and we open up opportunity and improve the quality of every hire.”
Jill Summers, Chief of Professional Services, Clevry
