We have huge youth unemployment but also thousands of jobs to be filled. Why is there should a gap between employers and school leavers?

1. Employers
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MORE THAN THREE-QUARTERS (88%) OF BUSINESSES
THINK SCHOOL LEAVERS ARE UNPREPARED FOR THE
WORKPLACE, ACCORDING TO BCC
John Longworth, director general of CBI, called on schools and
colleges to shift their focus from good grades to the broader issue
of “employability”. British businesses currently have 735,000
job vacancies, he said, and the biggest barrier to filling them was
“matching skills with vacancies”.