1. Working together to help young people achieve their potential

2. Our vision: to ensure that every school and college has an effective partnership with employers to provide its young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential and so to secure the UK's future prosperity.
Our Partnerships Board
Senior representatives of the national organisations representing schools and colleges;
Context;
Charity set up to ensure every school has an effective partnership with employers- COMPLETELY FREE SERVICE TO SCHOOLS
Giving young people the tools and passion to help them choose their own path
Understanding the power of employer engagement in education
...and employers;

3. A need for helping young people navigate the world of work
Taskforce/YouGov 2016 survey, 1744 young adults (19-24):
a) Most young people educated in the state sector think that their schools prepared them poorly for adult working life; b) Young adults who experienced greater volume of school-mediated employer engagement feel better prepared for the adult working world
P-Value: 0.00
School type at age 16
N= 1,676
Looking back, how well do you feel that your school/college prepared you for adult working life?
Very well
Quite well
Quite poorly
Very poorly
Non-selective state school, i.e. comprehensive school %
4.4%
39.2%
43.4%
13.0%
Grammar / selective state school
8.5%
49.4%
35.7%
6.4%
Independent / fee-paying school
16.1%
45.3%
24.2%
14.3%
Total
Count
102
691
679
204
6.1%
41.2%
40.5%
12.2%
P-value: 0.00
Volume of activities
N=1,756
Looking back, how well do you feel that your school/college prepared you for adult working life?
Very well
Quite well
Quite poorly
Very poorly
Never %
7.8%
26.3%
41.5%
24.5%
Once
3.8%
36.2%
47.2%
12.9%
Twice
3.7%
48.5%
40.1%
7.6%
Three times
9.9%
55.3%
28.3%
6.6%
Four or more times
12.8%
55.1%
26.0%
6.2%
Total
Count
109
724
704
219
41.2%
12.5%
Source: Contemporary Transitions, 2016

4. Avoiding NEET outcomes
Students who do two or more engagement activities could be on average up to 20% less likely to become NEET compared to their peers who did no engagement activity.
NEET
[%]
Source: Percy, C. & A. Mann. 2014

5. What does all our research tell us:
A lot of a little goes a long way when it comes to employer engagement
Greater contact with employers whilst at school = less likely to be NEET & greater earning potential.
Source: Percy, C & Mann, A. 2014
Start young and make them think about what they’ve learnt
Is it only scientists, science teachers and doctors who need science subjects for work?
Source: Jones, S. et al. 2016
Pupils should do a load of different things over their school lives
Different first-hand experiences are effective in achieving different outcomes
Source: (Forthcoming publication Towards an employer engagement toolkit)
Schools should do something about the fact that all kids are not the same
Some need more help than others in accessing experience of real value
Source: Hatcher, R & Le Gallais, T. 2008
Young people’s views of the labour market is like seeing the world through Mr Magoo glasses – they need held to get perspective
One third of teenagers are chasing just ten jobs
They don’t know what they don’t know – sometimes a little coercion is right and proper
Career carousels is a perfect way to challenge often unspoken assumptions

6. Captivating young people with remarkable life stories

8. Types of Events – Schools/Colleges use Inspiring the Future for
Careers Networking
Careers Fair
Talks
Types of Events schools and colleges could run
Careers Fairs
Careers Networking
Options Evenings
‘Career Insight’ Talks
CV & Interview Technique Workshops
What’s my line?
‘Enterprise Insight Talks’
School Assemblies
Curriculum Enrichment
Lunchtime Events
Mock Interviews
Workshops
What’s My Line
Captivating young people with remarkable life stories

9. Create a new opportunity for your children/student
Inspiring the Future – Find and search for volunteers in your area
Once you have logged in, you will see this screen. Click on the Manage Opportunities or Search for Volunteers button in the navigation bar to:
Search for volunteers
Create a new opportunity for your children/student
Edit your opportunities and activity details
There are two ways to create your opportunity, search and invite volunteers:

10. Inspiring the Future – Find and search for volunteers in your area

11. Role models who can talk about working with a disability

12. Companies represented include:
Role models who can talk about working with a disability – new functionality on Inspiring the Future
Companies represented include:
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Ministry of Defence
Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
I also suffer from dyslexia, a hidden disability that too few people have any knowledge or appreciation of. It's something I am happy to talk about, including the challenges I have overcome, and continue to overcome within my career and personal life as a result of it.

13. Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies signed up

14. What teachers say young people gain from meeting ITF volunteers
Source: ITF annual user surveys Question: as a result of your students participating in ITF activities, have you observed any improvement in…

15. Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women Campaign
The Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaigns aims to get inspirational women into schools, talking to girls to broaden their horizons and raise aspirations
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16. Career Footsteps
Introducing young people to careers they may not have considered and helping them to recognise the benefits and opportunities of technical, practical and vocational routes available to help them get there

17. Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge for Schools Free Apprenticeship sessions for schools and colleges
My name is ‘insert name’ and I’m here on behalf of the National Apprenticeship Service to talk to you about apprenticeships.
It’s really important to remember to keep your options open about your future. So for the next minutes, I’m going to explain: - The range of apprenticeship job roles available - The different levels - How you find an apprenticeship and - What you need to do next
Regardless of qualifications, there are apprenticeships for everyone but not many people realise that apprenticeships are for A* students
Activity idea:
Before I start, hands up who knows what an apprenticeship is?
(typical response is to get around 20% of the audience with their hands raised)
Ok – well hopefully when I ask you that again at the end of this session, everyone’s hands will be up in the air.

18. Key Contacts For any queries please contact:
Department
Name
Job Title
Address
Telephone Number
Schools Team
Charlotte Lightman
Head of Schools
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