Building Strong Communities
Open
1080 Londoners have responded
Idea generation
Young People future
Within the education system around year 10 and year 11, students may be introduced to a career advisory who would provide different jobs and career young people may enter. Career advisory vary in how helpful they are depending on the understanding they have on different careers.
Sure this is helpful, but young people still complain about how prepared they were for the future and adulthood. People who have courage to ask for help or young people who have already existing connections to people with power will automatically have an advantage giving them a better chance to succeed in the future.
More things should be made compulsory, students and young people from the age of 15 (year 10) should not only have access to a career advisor but also a financial advisor, mental health advisor and others. They should also be exposed to basic training on things that are required in adulthood like: how to cook, wash clothes, make a CV, how to communicate with others and so on. People who don't develop these certain skills, have challenges when older and must learn things first hand. This would slow young people down in allowing them to reach there potential from an earlier age be successful in the future.
Young people, must be exposed to more from a younger age to prepare them for the future and give them the best chance of being and adult and living a comfortable life not worrying about the future.
Suggested by JKhanu
Timeline
London’s recovery from COVID-19 – what you told us so far
HappenedHow your feedback has started to shape London’s road to recovery
HappenedNovember 2020: Building Strong Communities workshop with 200 Londoners
HappenedJanuary 2021: Volunteering summit with Londoners to discuss the opportunities and challenges around volunteering
HappenedApril 2021 - 2 workshops with 30-40 stakeholders on the Civic Strength Index
HappenedApril 2021 - 2 workshops with 30-40 Londoners on the Civic Strength Index
HappenedShare your ideas to reimagine London
HappenedYou and other Londoners have shared 166 ideas
Have a look
Want to have your say next time?
New here? Join Talk London, City Hall's online community where you can have your say on London's biggest issues.
Join Talk LondonAlready have an account?
Log into your accountlivehere
Community Member 4 years agoProper careers advice is very much needed. I left school having had one 5 minute session with a bored box-ticking careers advisor, who simply wanted to know if I was going into factory, shop, office, college or uni. No help at all. And I...
Show full commentProper careers advice is very much needed. I left school having had one 5 minute session with a bored box-ticking careers advisor, who simply wanted to know if I was going into factory, shop, office, college or uni. No help at all. And I had very little idea of what was out there, what jobs or careers were available or possible. The careers advice must start much earlier, so that young people know what subjects are important for the future they might want to pursue, and what careers there abilities will suit them for. And to cover a much better range of occupations and what they entail, what the earnings are likely to be and what that will pay for in life (buying a home or never earning enough to do so). Much much more in-depth understanding of how businesses work, on career strategies in different occupations, of what upskilling opportunities there are and what they cost - all this is needed from early on.
Show less of comment