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100% of teachers we work with recommend our programmes

Imagine your students confidently stepping into their futures, armed with real-world skills and industry insights …

Read below to make this a reality through our FREE Career Pathways Programme.

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Free programme for schools and colleges

We provide your students with employability and skills masterclasses; talks from industry volunteers; mentoring; business challenge sessions; self-directed online learning; and access to work experience, internships and entry-level jobs. Directly helping schools with Estyn / OFSTED and Gatsby interaction with employer targets.

Start your students off with an INDUSTRY INSIGHT session with one of our many Industry volunteers either in person or virtual.

Then deep dive with our EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS WORKSHOPS again facilitated by our Industry volunteers on topics such as problem-solving, creativity, teamwork, interview and presentation skills and personal development.

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Access free resources on our Student Zone to support your teaching and to provide students with self-directed online learning. Much of our online content has been provided by senior business leaders and includes free lesson plans for educators.

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Access diversity and inclusion training and take part in business created challenges to help students apply their skills to the world of work.

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Gain access to work experience, internships, apprenticeships and entry level jobs. Time spent in a workplace really helps students to better understand the world of work. We encourage all our industry partners to consider the opportunities they can offer students from our partner schools and colleges.

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Support to transition from education to work, guidance on career options and support into first role.

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Our Career Pathways Programme

Understanding your options and upping your skills
Knowledge Bank
Building leadership and team skills and applying them to work
Options and opportunities post education
Access to mentors (18+ years)

What we do

We help young people go from 'Learner to Earner'

We help young people fulfil their potential by developing employability and life skills through our Career Pathways Programme, delivered with schools and colleges in England and Wales.

Our free programme includes; talks from industry volunteers; employability skills workshops; business challenges; creativity workshops; and access to opportunities in partner companies.

Since 2010 we have worked to empower young people (14-19) to take control of their education and career journey through our programmes, and we are proud to be Skills Builder Partnership Impact Level Three accredited for: listening, speaking, problem solving, creativity, staying positive, aiming high, leadership and teamwork.

To find out more or book please email our team here.

197,500k+

young people engaged in schools, colleges and online
1766+

free sessions and workshops we’ve delivered
4.3m+

young people we’ve reached with our digital content
100%

Teachers say they’d work with us again
841

Number of dedicated volunteers supporting our programmes

Success stories

Excellent resources

We LOVE all the information that you have compiled in the one place in your Student Zone for the Life after lockdown toolkit. We’ll be adding this on to our upcoming e-shot that goes out to students and parents.

Sixth Form Tutor
Fantastic session

“The Working Options event was FANTASTIC. The best thing that has happened to Business & Finance this year.”

Sixth Form Tutor
Insightful and positive

” The talk yesterday was fantastic. Both speakers were very insightful and knowledgeable and I think a lot of our students really took away some positive messages from their engagement! Thank you for your help in making this happen; it was great for the students to be able to engage in such a way.”

Sixth Form Tutor
Engaging online content

“The website resources [in your Student Zone] are great and students used many aspects during their post 18 choices day last week.

Sixth Form Tutor
Access to real world experiences

“Real life stories are always more powerful than theoretical stuff. It’s always rewarding when students can see the relevance of their work being demonstrated.”

Sixth Form Tutor
Increasing confidence and self esteem

“The [Insights from Industry] session at my college showed me the motivation I needd and that no matter where I come from I can do what I want. I recently had an interview with Morrisons. I went in with my head held high and luckily I got it!”

Sixth Form Student
Valuable industry insight

“The opportunity for our students to get exposure to such industry experts was extremely valuable. They inspire our students to be proactive in both creating and taking opportuities to develop their employability skills”

Sixth Form Tutor
Building positivity

“I now have a more positive outlook on college and my future. I’ll take every opportunity that comes my way.”

Sixth Form Student

Our Funders Our Impact

How we help

Improving employability

We’ve developed our employability and life skills programme to offer young people multiple interactions with employers,because we know there is a direct correlation to improved academic attainment and future employability. The widening opportunity gap in employment prospects means that we particularly focus on engaging disadvantaged young people.
Building confidence

We want young people to feel inspired, informed and have the skills they need for their future. Young people consistently tell us that participating in our employability and life skills programme has a positive impact on their self-esteem and confidence.
Supporting education

Our Career Pathways Programme supports schools and colleges to deliver many of the employer engagement elements of the ‘Gatsby Benchmarks’ for their students.
Connecting industry

We act as a link between students and employers. We’ve developed strong links with companies in multiple industry sectors.

How to get your school or college involved

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Email our team or use the form below.
We’ll be in touch to get things rolling.

100% of teachers we work with recommend our programmes

Partner with us

Free programme for schools and colleges

Our Career Pathways Programme

What we do

We help young people go from 'Learner to Earner'

Success stories

Excellent resources

Fantastic session

Insightful and positive

Engaging online content

Access to real world experiences

Increasing confidence and self esteem

Valuable industry insight

Building positivity

How we help

How to get your school or college involved

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