1. Career Ready first in-school meeting
Introduce yourself.
Explain your role today: I’m here to share with you some information on Career Ready, a programme that gives targeted students in S5 & S6 the opportunity to gain the key skills you’ll need to succeed after school in the world of work.
Existing school:
Your school has been a partner in the Career Ready programme for some time so other students have already experienced and benefited from the programme
New school:
Your school is a Career Ready partner, which means you get a chance to join 1000s of other students across the UK who will also be on the programme. Could you be a Career Ready student?
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2. What is this session about?
Provide an overview of how the programme works for parents/guardians
For mentors to find out more about the school and meet the Head Teacher /key staff
An opportunity for mentors and parents/ guardians to meet each other
An opportunity for mentors and students to have a first meeting following the Launch Event
Explain what the session is about

3. Introducing Career Ready
This next section is for parents/ guardians – to be done when students are taking their mentors on a tour of the school

4. Local Authorities Schools
Career Ready
Career Ready
Local Authorities Schools
Employers
and Students
Partnership
Bridges
Develops
Grows
GAP
Confidence
SCHOOL
WORK
2 YEARS –
s5 & s6
Career Ready is a national charity working in partnership with local authorities, schools, employers and with students to deliver …
A two year programme during S5 & S6 and is for carefully selected students
It bridges the gap between school life and work life
Provides opportunities to gain the skills, attitudes and networks students need to succeed in the workplace / in their career
It connects students to employers - more about them soon
Students are encouraged throughout and treated with respect so that your confidence grows
Skills
Attitudes
Networks

5. Mentoring Masterclasses Workplace visits Internship Events
Five elements make up the Career Ready programme. None of these are stand alone and students take part in all of them.
Mentoring
Students are partnered with their own mentor who is committed to supporting them and is going to give them an insight into the world of work. They will meet and communicate with their mentor regularly and they will help their student to:
formulate a career plan
identify the skills and qualities that they need to develop in order to increase employment/higher education chances
develop confidence in the workplace and strategies to make the best first impression to an employer
support them in becoming an outstanding networker and build a professional network of people who can support them in their career journey
Plus many other things!
Masterclasses
Over the duration of the programme, students will take part in 6 masterclasses that will be delivered by employer volunteers, who want to share their experience with them They’ll take part in sessions such as personal branding, effective networking and communication, interview skills and preparation for work. The result? A more confident, work ready person
Work place visits
One of the main benefits of Career Ready is that it will give access to work places that they may not have the opportunity to go to without the programme. They will visit various employers who will give them a chance to find out what it is like to work in their firm and gain an opportunity to speak to people who work there, all the time expanding their network of contacts who can potentially help navigate career choices.
Internship
There is no point hearing about the world of work if they don’t actually get an opportunity to experience it. Over the duration of the programme, all students have a four week paid internship. It is at the same workplace as their mentor and starts in the last week of the S5 summer term. They will not be able to take holidays until after their internship is finished. It is real work where they can put the skills you’re learning into practice, find out what work’s really all about, contribute to an organisation and develop transferable employability skills.
Events
Launch - meet your mentor for the first time – this was a few weeks ago
Celebration of Success – in school after internship with mentors and parents/ guardians at the start of Year 2
Graduation – in spring of the second year of the programme

6. We work with several hundred employers
Career Ready is supported by lots of employers, national and local. Here are just some of them

7. We work with several hundred employers
Career Ready is supported by lots of employers, national and local.

8. You can choose to show parents/ guardians this film clip or the one on th next slide or both
Click play to show Speakeasy video produced May 2016 following Scottish Graduation March 2016.
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9. Click play to show the short film clip made by career ready interns at Standard Life.
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10. Career Ready. www.careerready.org.uk