The
Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is launching a new programme to help
graduates adjust to the workplace.
The
scheme, run in partnership with Year in Industry, introduces gap-year students
to management skills including team leadership, information handling and
project supervision techniques.
Successful
participants will be awarded a Level 3 Certificate in management.
The
initiative comes after research by the CMI found that almost half of HR
managers thought graduates were increasingly ill-prepared for the workplace.
Christine
Hayhurst, director of professional affairs at the CMI, said: "Many
university-leavers enter the marketplace without transferring classroom
confidence into practical business skills."
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"By
partnering with Year in Industry, the institute aims to link the needs of
business with the drive for quality entrants into the UK jobs market," she
said.
