ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at young adults' recollection of school and college action to prepare them for the working world and, using regression analyses, explores what schools did to help young adults succeed in the adult working world. It considers the responses of 1,744 young British adults who completed a survey created by the Education and Employers Research team working with Prue Huddleston. The chapter outlines the results from a 2016 survey of 1,744 young British adults aged 19—24. Employer engagement has become a commonplace aspect of schooling in Britain. The survey began by asking respondents to describe the types of employer engagement activities in which they took part whilst in secondary education between the ages of 14 and 18. Young adults who had experienced the greatest volume of school-mediated employer engagement activities came, on average, from more privileged backgrounds.
