FE News | Sodexo partners with Youth Employment UK to launch early careers hub

Sodexo has launched Explore at Sodexo on the Youth Employment UK website to bring to life the diversity of opportunities and excellent career opportunities offered by the organization without borders.

Explore at Sodexo is a featured employer profile, accessible through the Youth Employment UK website, showcasing early careers with the organisation. Young people can read and view inspirational profiles of current Sodexo trainees, as well as explore training academies, T-level opportunities and work experience programs at Sodexo sites across the UK.

Youth Employment UK will help Sodexo connect with young people who want to work for a youth-friendly employer and explore education and training opportunities.

Youth Employment UK is an independent, not-for-profit social enterprise founded in 2012 to tackle youth unemployment. The company is committed to its Good Youth Employment Principles, which aim to create opportunities to identify talent, ensure fair employment and provide world-class people development. The organization uses its network to reach 4,500 schools, colleges and professional leaders and young people across the country.

Sodexo has a long-standing commitment to creating employment opportunities and enabling colleagues to develop through apprenticeships and, wherever possible, considers all vacancies and vacancies as apprenticeships.

Sodexo offers a variety of apprenticeships, with over 70 available in areas such as IT & Business, Facilities Management, Hospitality & Catering, Healthcare and Human Resources

In July 2022, Sodexo was named one of the top 100 apprenticeship companies in the UK by the Department for Education.

Clare Johnson, Early Careers Lead at Sodexo UK & Ireland said:

“We take great pride in nurturing talent and we want to ensure we have a solid pipeline of young people across our organization to start their careers and achieve great things here. We offer a wide range of opportunities so we are delighted to showcase these on Explore at Sodexo with the help of Youth Employment UK.

Laura-Jane Rawlings, CEO of Youth Employment UK added:

“Youth Employment is delighted to welcome Sodexo to our youth-friendly community. We look forward to working together to connect more young people with quality opportunities to explore work. If we are to eliminate youth unemployment and close the skills gap, we must support young people to take advantage of work experience opportunities and encourage employers to offer such opportunities.”

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