Working together to help young people achieve their potential

Working together to help young people achieve their potential

www.inspiringthefuture.org

@Edu_employers

Context

When it comes to deciding on a career today’s

young people face very difficult decisions and the

financial penalty for making a bad decision is

higher than ever before

What influences young people?

Family, relatives / friends of family / relatives

School teachers curriculum

Careers advisors

Media inc social media, web etc

Employers /ees - working in range of industries and across the private, public and third sectors

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Key findings:

• 95% of young people would like employers to be more involved in providing advice and guidance about careers and jobs

• 42% of young people had no contact with employers at all

• Young people who had been in contact with four or more employers were nearly twice as likely to believe that they had a good idea of the knowledge and skills needed for the jobs they wanted to do

• 90% of employers agreed they should take a role in helping to provide careers advice related activities to young people

Professor Louise Archer, King’s College, London

Survey of 9000 10/11 year old children

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90% Strongly/ agree

General lack of knowledge of careers in science

Taskforce YouGov survey of 19-24 year olds

Some schools and colleges arrange for their students (aged between 14 and 19) to take part in activities which involve

employers or local business people providing things like work experience, mentoring, enterprise activity, careers advice, CV or

interview practice. On how many different occasions do you remember such employer involvement in your education?

0 1 2 3 4 or more

Which of the following BEST applies to you?

NEETs 26.1% 23.4% 16.6% 15.6% 4.3%

Non-NEET 73.9% 76.6% 83.4% 84.4% 95.7%

Weighted Base 272 350 145 64 69

Correlation between NEET status at 19-24 and number of employer engagement activities undertaken whilst in education (aged 14-19)

Kendall’s Tau C P value = 0.001

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Research

It’s who you meet: why employer contacts at school make a difference to the employment prospects of young adults –

• Shows a significant link between young people’s experience of the world of work whilst at school and the chances of them becoming NEET

• 26.1% of young people who could recall no contact with employers whilst at school went on to become NEET

• This reduced significantly to 4.3% for those who had taken part in four or more activities involving employers

National Careers Council – ‘An Aspirational Nation: Creating a culture change in careers provision’ –

• Calls for more careers insights for young people, and highlights how employers could support schools and colleges and give young people insights into the world of work

• ‘Employers should encourage their employees to volunteer to go into schools and colleges to give students insights into different careers, enthuse them about the world of work and provide access to active experience of work’.

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 BoardSenior representatives of the national organisations representing schools and colleges;

...and employers;

http://www.cbi.org.uk/

http://www.fsb.org.uk/default.aspx?loc=general&id=0






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What is Inspiring the Future?

Inspiring the Future is a FREE service whereby employees from all sectors and professions from Apprentices to CEOs pledge one hour a year to volunteer to go into state schools and colleges to talk about their jobs, careers, and the education routes they took

It is a FREE service endorsed by Government (with cross-party support), the UK’s main teacher and employer representative organisations and many leading employers

It makes a difference to young people. Good quality research shows that who you meet as a teenager shapes the success with which young people go into adult life

Teachers overwhelmingly want young people to hear more from people in the workplace13

• We have signed up nearly 16,000 volunteers from 4,000 different organisations and our growth is steadily rising

• Over 6,000 teachers from more than 3,00 schools and colleges have already signed up, and we have recently launched our Primary Futures campaign to primary schools

• Over 40,000 invites have been sent from teachers to volunteers

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School Teacher Cumulative Line Graph Volunteer Cumulative Line Graph

Benefits for Employers

Free secure service that makes it easy to engage with state schools and colleges by matching employee volunteers

Communicating with young people offers excellent personal development opportunities for employees

An effective means of supporting corporate social responsibility and long-term recruitment objectives

A gateway to working with schools and colleges, across a wide range of activities that support learning and progression

Free reports for employers through dedicated registration links

"I just thought I would drop you a note about the careers fair today. It was a great event where young people were given the opportunity to explore ALL the different options open to them when they leave school. The young people I met were really engaged and I really enjoyed

assisting them on widening their horizons". Volunteer PwC

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ITF Employer Reports

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First Name

Last Name

Job role/TitleEducation Centre Name

Latest Invite ResponseActivity Menu Item

ITF Activity Date Hours

Project Manager Kidderminster College

I’m happy to be involved Career Insights 04/03/2014 1

Higher Apprentice Priory School I’m happy to be involved Career Insights 04/03/2014 1

IT Consultant Greenbank High School


Training Manager Rossett School

I’m happy to be involved Mock Interviews 11/07/2014 1

Director Rossett School

I’m happy to be involved Help with CVs 11/07/2014 1

Business Development Manager

Kidderminster College


Junior Developer The George Eliot School


Recruitment Officer Aldermoor Farm Primary School


Graphic Designer Dunraven School


Communications Manager

St Bede's Catholic School & 6th Form College


HR Business Partner Whitley Academy


Graduate Accountant Bishop Vesey's Grammar School


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Impact

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Impact

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"The applicants really enjoyed the session and it was great to have help from such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteer. In fact, 2 out of the 6 applicants who attended the session on 17 th January, have since secured an Apprenticeship position which is brilliant". Northampton College

Benefits for Schools and Colleges

• Nearly 16,000 diverse volunteers waiting for teachers to invite them to talk to their pupils about their jobs, and the routes they took to get there, or even CV and interview insights at the click of a button

How does it work• When teaching staff log on to the system, they get a list of all those people registered in their area who can speak

to young people about different specialisms and activities, and it’s a simple process to send a message through the system to get in touch

Specialisms ActivitiesApprenticeships Career InsightsDesign and Manufacturing Help with CVs

Enterprise/Entrepreneurs Mock Interviews

Maths – Using it at work Numeracy relating to careers (Primary)

Science and Technology Reading relating to careers (Primary)

Languages – French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Urdu, Arabic

Being contacted about becoming a school governor

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Types of Events – Schools/Colleges use ITF for

Careers Networking Careers Fair Talk

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Impact

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Impact

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Signing up is quick and easy

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Signing up is quick and easy

Add different specialisms

Tell schools a little bit about your job and qualifications

Select different activities you could help withAdd different locations where you can volunteer in

Example of volunteer profilethat a teacher will view

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Impact

Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women Campaign

• The Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaigns aims to get 15,000 inspirational women by the end of 2014 into schools, talking to girls to broaden their horizons and raise aspirations

Follow the Inspiring Women blog: www.itfinspiringwomen.wordpress.com

http://www.itfinspiringwomen.wordpress.com/

Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Languages

Already there are hundreds of volunteers who use languages in their jobs who've offered to go into schools to talk to pupils from lawyers to engineers and psychologists, using their languages in organisations ranging from Rolls Royce to Save the Children, from PR companies to banks.

Languages include French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Urdu, and many more.

Inspiring Languages Week is promoted jointly by charity the Education and Employers Taskforce, the British Council, the British Academy, Speak to the Future, Routes into Languages and many other organisations How to get involved

• Existing Inspiring the Future volunteers, or people signing up to Inspiring the Future for the first time, simply go to: www.inspringthefuture.org and either login or go to register and click ‘Volunteers register here’.

• In the ‘My Job Profile’ section, they select ‘Languages’ from the section ‘Do you have experience at work of any of the following’ and their profile will be available to teachers looking for people that can speak to young people about using languages in their job/career.

"Inviting working professionals into schools to give pupils first hand insights into the breadth of the jobs market and its recruitment demands is a great example of the sort of good practice that Ofsted expects schools to include when providing young people with effective independent careers guidance."

Karen Adiaanse HMI, National Lead for Careers Guidance, Ofsted

http://www.inspringthefuture.org/

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Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies signed up

Key ContactsFor any queries please contact:

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Department Name Job Title Email Address Telephone Number

Inspiring the Future Director

Phil Pyatt Director – Inspiring the Future

[email protected] 0203 206 0454

Employer Engagement Oliver Hallam Business Development Manager


Inspiring Women Campaign

Gabriella Oakley Inspiring Women Engagement Manager

[email protected] 07703 734840

Schools Team Charlotte Lightman

Schools Liaison Manager


PR & Communications Carol Glover PR & Communications Manager


General Enquiries [email protected] 0203 206 0510

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Working together to help young people achieve their potential