A new study, backed by Bear Grylls, has found that employers are struggling to find young people with the life skills to succeed in a workplace, with 61% reporting a lack of emotional resilience and 45% reporting a lack of teamwork skills.
According to new research from Demos, recruiters are reporting a “double skills gap” with 60% struggling to find the right technical skills and 50% saying they can’t find the transferable skills they need, such as leadership and teamwork.
The report, for which TV Bear Grylls wrote the forward, recommendations are greater government support for community-based extracurricular activities to make sure they are accessible to all children, regardless of socioeconomic background.
Here Bear Grylls, Chief Scout, writes exclusively for The Mirror about how opportunities to develop resilience, teamwork and leadership skills should be “available to all” to protect today’s young people who are under “more pressure than ever”....
