Education to Employment Report

[Radka Jágriková]

As part of their research into education, The McKinsey Center for Government research youth employability and skills needed. They have published a report Education to Employment: Getting Europe’s Youth into Work, in which they also look at what skills young people lack from the point of view of the employers and what skills they consider important.

As presented in the table below, skills which are in high demand yet often insufficient amongst European youth include creativity, problem solving and analysis, teamwork and other soft skills.

(You can find the full report here and the executive summary here.)

A complementary global report, Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works, has been published too (you can find the full report here and the executive summary here).