Fostering Leadership Skills of Young People for Inclusion into the Labour Market

Abstract

Our paper focuses on studying how building and fostering leadership skills might help young people to place themselves better on the labour market. The development of the social and economic potential of youth is an important issue that presents an impending task for the educational system, both at the graduate and postgraduate levels. Today’ students will become the future leaders who would foster the development of the world economies and bring innovation and prosperity. Thence, it is our task to prepare them well for the new challenges that might await in the globalised and digitalised world of tomorrow. Nowadays, when many young people experience discrimination on the labour markets and are facing with such issues as unemployment and social exclusion, helping them to develop their inner potential becomes an important endeavour that governments and public sector should undertake. Our results show that the efforts aimed at developing leadership skills in students would bring fruits and results in preparing qualified and well-trained labour force. Moreover, we show that focusing on the future and adapting the result-oriented approach would pay off in a form of better productivity and profitability.