Teach First Careers and Work Experience Research

Survey of 2,000 18-25 year olds about their experience of careers advice and work experience.

• Around three in five 18-25 year olds say that the internet (58%) or their family (57%) were most helpful in helping them to decide what to do after finishing school – with just three in ten (31%) saying the same of a careers advisor.
• More than half of young people from an advantaged background (53%) say that they completed two or more work experience placements, while just two in five of those from disadvantaged backgrounds say the same (43%).
• those from an advantaged background are ten percentage points more likely than those from disadvantaged backgrounds to say that their longest work placement lasted at least one week (54% vs 44%).
• 18-25 year olds from advantaged backgrounds are significantly more likely than those from disadvantaged backgrounds to have completed at least one work experience placement in professional services (27% v 12%).

Date Published: 16th October 2017

Categories: Audience | Economy | Education | Issues | Opinion Formers | Policy Makers | Sector | Social

Client: Teach First

Methodology

ComRes interviewed 2,015 18-25 year olds in England online between 18^th May and 12^th June 2017, including 506 current university students and 807 university graduates. Data were weighted by gender, age and region to be representative of this audience.

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