YEUK Young

Professional Launch Youth Employment UK CIC (YEUK) are officially launching our YEUK Young

Professional programme with a 6 week pledge challenge.

The programme supports young people in their personal and professional

development by explaining the skills and behaviours employers want, and

providing a library of resources so they can build and demonstrate those

qualities. The programme is free for all young people aged 16-24 and is the

revamped membership offer for young people which YEUK provides.

YEUK CEO Laura-Jane Rawlings says “At YEUK we believe every young person

has the right to be inspired and empowered to achieve their potential. The

YEUK Young Professional Membership puts the tools into young people’s

hands to begin to change the way they and the world see them. “

The campaign is running from 19th September to 28th October. The aim of the

campaign is to have:

1,000 young people signed up as YEUK Young Professionals

200 pledges from businesses and organisations that work with young

people in support of the YEUK Young Professional membership

We are asking all of our Community Members and supporters to get behind the YEUK

Young Professional membership, and share the challenge with their networks. In this

pack we’ve put together:

Pledge ideas and other ways you can support the challenge

Q&A about the YEUK Young Professional membership

Walkthrough of the signup process

Social media ideas and resources

Example copy to talk about YEUK Young Professional membership

Other Ways You Can Support The Campaign

Share this pack with your networks and encourage them to pledge

too

Share the press release on your website/blog etc.

Talk about the YEUK Young Professional on your social media channels

Get young people you work with or know to become YEUK Young Professionals

Sponsor one of the YEUK Young Professional Hub areas—or the whole

programme! (for more information on this contact shona@yeuk.org.uk)

Join organisations already committing to guarantee all YEUK

Young Professionals an interview if they match the essential job

criteria

Pledge to get all the young people in your organisation to sign

up as YEUK Young Professionals ALL ORGANISATIONS

WHO MAKE A PLEDGE WILL GET 10% OFF

TICKETS TO OUR CONFERENCE!

Pledge Ideas and Other

Ways to Support the

Challenge

Pledge Suggestions

YEUK Young Professional

Pledge Form

Organisation name:

We pledge to support the YEUK Young Professional by...

Print out and fill in this page, then send it to

shona@yeuk.org.uk to confirm your pledge. We will then

display it on our website!

Questions and Answers

for

Organisations and Young People

How Long Does The Programme Take To Complete?

We’ve found that the slideshows and quizzes take about half an hour on

average, based on feedback from young people who have completed them.

Who Is It For?

The YEUK Young Professional is aimed at ALL young people 16-24. If they’re in

education, training, employment, or currently working out their next steps

they can make the choice to become a YEUK Young Professional. There’s no

specific grades required, just a commitment to their personal development!

What About Young People With A Disability or Other Access Barrier?

We are working on some accessible versions of the programme,

unfortunately we haven’t had the resources to be able to create these yet but

they will be released as soon as possible. In the mean time you may like to

support young people with additional needs in completing the training. We

are also currently working with our ambassador network to start a peer

support service, details of which will be released soon.

So What’s In It For Young People?

By becoming a YEUK Young Professional young people can put the status on

their CV/LinkedIn profile, and we already have a number of employers who

are guaranteeing an interview to all YEUK Young Professionals so long as they

meet the essential criteria for a job advertised! As well as this they get access

to the Young Professional Hub, which is a resource library full of tips,

information, videos, interviews, and other things to enable them to continue

their development. It’s important to keep learning and growing, and we add

new content to the hub each week to keep it fresh!

Young People sign up on the

website and are taken

through the young

professional programme

then take a small quiz in

order to qualify as a YEUK

Young Professional.

Once a young person has achieved 80% or more in the quiz (they can retake it as many times as

they like) they gain access to our exclusive Young Professional hub—a library of content and

resources on each of the YEUK Young Professional Principles; from Ted Talks to online courses

they can take to continue their personal and professional development. This area is being

updated weekly so there is always something new for YEUK Young Professionals to engage

with!

Sign Up Journey

Social Media Resources

Some Quotes About the Programme Which You Can Use:

“The whole idea of this is fab and I think it would help a lot of young people to find

out what skills they have and what skills they need to improve to use for work oppor-

tunities, we can all say we have the relevant skills ready for work but this Quiz can

actually access your real life work skills. It can also give you real life examples (in the

questions which can really help improve your skills). I feel it will definitely help a lot

of young people to find out what skills they do have, this can also be added to their

CV and showing this knowledge to an employer would be really positive.” Ben Fisher

YEUK Youth Ambassador

“The YEUK Young Professional allows an opportunity for a young person to decide

‘you known what, I can be anything I want to be and YEUK are going to kick-start my

career.’ With more employers guaranteeing interviews for young people completing

the programme we are effectively socially changing the mind-set of young people

and employers alike to ensure a better tomorrow for our young people.” Sam Bell

YEUK Youth Ambassador

“The Young Professional programme provides high quality exposure to the world of work and will enable a young person to be inspired, motivated and gain valuable knowledge and skills to create opportunities that will allow them to achieve their potential” Charlotte Bosworth Director of Skills and Employment at OCR

Suggested Tweets—Don’t Forget to Tag @YEUK2012

I’m supporting #YEUKYP by pledging to recognise YEUK Young Professional status in job applications!

Being #professional in any career is important & #YEUKYP gives you the tools to develop that!

We pledge to give all #YEUKYoungProfessionals an interview if they meet criteria!

Invest in your #personaldevelopment by becoming a #YEUKYoungProfessional

Build yourself in the #skills employers want by becoming a #YEUKYoungProfessional

Twitter @YEUK2012

LINK: bit.ly/YEUKYP

Hashtags:

#YEUKYP

#YEUKYoungProfessionals

We have sent along with this pdf some images that you can

use on tweets/Facebook posts etc, and below are a few

suggested tweets.

Please use the hashtags and tag us in everything you share

about YEUK Young Professional too! If you work with young

people, get quotes from them on how they’ve found the

programme—or even better get them to tweet about it!

Copy/Content To Use

The YEUK Young Professional Programme is changing the way that young

people see themselves and are viewed by prospective employers. The

programme explores 12 skills and behaviours employers expect employees to

have (such as teamwork, resilience, and initiative) that not all young people

will have had the chance to develop. The Young Professional Hub is a regularly

updated library of resources to support young people in their personal and

professional growth. The aim is that all young people can take ownership of

their own professional development to become ‘work ready’ and employers

will recognise the YEUK Young Professional status when recruiting.

Talking about YEUK Young Professional to employers/

youth organisations etc.

Talking about YEUK Young Professional to young people

Do you consider yourself to be professional? As a young person it can be hard to

present yourself professionally when entering the world of work. Youth Employment

UK are here to help with their new membership—the YEUK Young Professional.

The YEUK Young Professional programme will help you build and develop the skills

employers want and you need in order to get ahead. Through looking at 12 key skills

and behaviours for acting and being professional. You can take control of your

personal and professional development.

The programme is free to sign up to, and after taking some short quizzes you’ll get

access to the Young Professional Hub. This has loads of content from articles to

videos, and information about courses you can take to continue your professional

development.