Getting our young people (back) into jobs through social innovation

Dr. Jo Casebourne, Nesta24-26 June 2013SIX and Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal

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current challenges

• longer claim durations• stagnant wages and productivity• youth unemployment and NEET rates• particular concerns around

disadvantaged and excluded groups• slow recovery

longer-term patterns

• skills mismatch• activating the inactive• changing sectoral profile• poor quality jobs

the current approach to tackling worklessness…is complex

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thriving innovation systems

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low incentives to innovate

creating and shaping new markets

support for self-employment

intermediaries that improve the efficiency

of job matching

but there are some promising fields of innovation outside

the mainstream

www.jobsinnovators.org

Creating & shaping new markets

mobilising capital (e.g. complementary currencies), supporting growth sectors

and new markets (e.g. developing the green

economy)

Supporting entrepreneurship &

enterprisebusiness services (e.g. start-

up support), business incubation, funding and

training for self-employment

Intermediaries that improve matching

employer pooling, web-platforms for flexible working

(e.g. task-matching sites), new approaches to careers advice, individualised job-

matching services

21st century employability

new approaches to employment support (e.g.

career coaching, resilience-building), platforms to

showcase skills and build professional networks

Blurring work & learningbringing work into the

classroom (e.g. business mentoring in schools),

temporary jobs and supported job opportunities

(e.g. apprenticeships and traineeships)

Innovation in jobs

more intensive measurement and assessment

learning / knowledge exchange network

the beginning of a debate about how innovativeideas can be taken forward

where next?

more experimentation around ideas

Lessons from the UK in innovating to get young people into work

Dr. Jo Casebourne, Nesta24-26 June 2013SIX and Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal