Career development

The Youth Cafe is committed to prioritizing career development increasing transparency and providing flexibility and choice on how career growth is achieved. Growth is all around us and looks different for each staff. We believe that skills and experience acquisition is what helps our staff accelerate their growth and accomplish their goals. We can reach higher and go further when we invest in each other. Together, we’ll build a better shared future by maximizing the amazing potential of what will always matter most: people.

Build Your Capabilities

At The Youth Cafe, we define capabilities as the formula of skills, knowledge and mindset required to refresh the world and make a difference. We’ve developed tools that help drive your career in the direction you want to go. It all starts with capturing your career interests, skills and strengths to bring greater visibility and clarity to your career aspirations and then developing a plan to attain them.

**Enterprise & Functional Capabilities**

Staff are encouraged to build their enterprise and functional skills to become **future-ready**. This is accomplished through structured learning, working with colleagues from across the network and taking on development assignments to get on-the-job learning. We provide **digital learning offerings** across a variety of topics for self-paced exploration and **cohort-based experiences** to learn with and from others.

**Learn From Our Network**

Our organization is a network of connections. And every connection can help you along your career journey. You’ll gain exposure to peers, leaders and mentors that expand your thinking and provide global experiences.

**Take on New Experiences**

Our vast **global network** allows our employees to learn from new experiences through our **Thrive Opportunity Marketplace**, where you can take on projects and/or short-term experiences to gain new skills that will help you meet your career goals.

Leadership at The Youth Cafe

We believe everyone is a leader, and everyone’s leadership journey is unique. Leadership is less about a formal position and more about the act of leading. Every employee has the ability to lead in their own way and can do so by exemplifying our leadership behaviors. At The Youth Cafe, our leaders strive to be role models, set their team’s agenda and help people be their best selves. We provide our staff, managers the tools, training and support they need to enable their teams to reach our growth objectives.