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Review The Quality of your Careers Education

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Written by: Gill Williams

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Use the Employer Standards framework and tool to review the quality of your outreach and assess how it delivers impact for young people and your business. The free 25min tool provides confidential results and tailored resources to improve.

The Employer Standards framework sets out what’s needed for effective careers engagement with the education sector:

  • Inspire young people about your sector, business and the world of work.
  • Develop their skills and help set them up for success.
  • Collaborate with others to build sustained relationships.

The online tool allows employers to identify, compare and improve their engagement and performance against the 9 Employer Standards and against other employers. It’s FREE and takes just 25 minutes.

Hundreds of employers have used the tool and say it has helped them to benchmark and inspired them to innovate in their education outreach.

  • 97% of participants said they found the resources useful or very useful.
  • 99% said they planned to make improvements based on what they learnt.
  • Those engaging in the highest quality work with schools were twice as likely to say it is helping them to close skills gaps.

Benefits:

For business it can help solve the skills gap challenge by:

  • Providing insight into what really works
  • Highlighting how your organisation compares with peers
  • Supporting to find solutions where there are gaps
  • Helping improve by learning from best practice

Link to action:

Access the framework and tool

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