Youth unemployment is a concern in this health crisis.

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PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP

About thirty business leaders are calling for "a collective mobilization for French youth" with the objective of offering 100,000 job offers by the end of January on the site "1jeune1solution.gouv.fr", in a column published in

The Sunday Newspaper

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"At the time of the revival, we are calling for a collective mobilization for French youth, by relying on the '1 young person, 1 solution' plan launched last July by the government", write the authors of this forum.

More than 50,000 job offers are already available on the site, with 1,000 companies already involved, according to the text.

“Let's go up that number.

Our goal: to be able to offer more than 100,000 job offers by the end of January.

"The authors of the forum note that" more than a million young people have (...) been recruited on long contracts since August ", that" the hiring in apprenticeship contracts reached an unparalleled and unexpected peak in 2020 ”and that“ the dreaded rise in youth unemployment has been contained ”.

The text is signed by 35 leaders from various economic sectors: in particular banking and insurance (BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, Savings banks, AXA, La Mondiale), distribution (Carrefour, Système U, Boulanger), energy (Total , EDF, Engie), transport (SNCF), industry (Schneider Electric), construction (Vinci), food (Nestlé), services (La Poste, Korian, Adecco, Accenture, PwC), technologies (Microsoft, Gameloft).

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