Sandwich chain to offer unpaid work experience to 500 young people to head off recruitment challenge posed by BrexitPret a Manger is hoping to solve its looming recruitment crisis by offering 500 British teenagers a week of unpaid work experience. Wareham told a parliamentary committee earlier this month that one in 50 applicants for jobs at Pret were British. “If Pret really wants to impress this age group they should be paying [the work experience participants],” she said. The company will be promoting the Big Experience Week through a network of schools with which it already works on a school leavers programme. Pret is also hoping to attract more British workers by increasing recruitment advertising, using social media, doubling the intake to its school leavers programme and working with Jobcentre Plus.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2017 07:00 UTC