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Youth Employment Initiative continues its success

The first two years of the Government’s Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) have seen almost all of the young people completing their traineeships in both years going on to secure continuing employment.

To date, YEI has placed over 1,100 young people into trainee positions with more than 230 small, medium and large businesses across Victoria.

Placements are across a variety of industry sectors including banking and finance, hospitality, retail, call centres, information technology, and horticulture.

93% of the graduates from YEI’s first year are continuing in employment following their training placement.

The one-year traineeship is made up of four days a week work placement with a host employer in a public or private sector organisation and one day a week off-the-job training.

Training is delivered by group training companies on their premises and leads to a nationally recognised and accredited training certificate.

(News Release, Office of the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, August 24, 1999)