Getting our young people (back) into jobs through social innovation Dr. Jo Casebourne, Nesta 24-26 June 2013 SIX and Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal
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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www.nesta.org.uk/makingitwork
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
© Guardian
thriving innovation systems
© Chambeau
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