Employability Briefing for Birmingham

Sherry Coutu CBE

25 May 2017

“Tinker Tailor Soldier or Spy”

THERE IS A MAJORSKILLS GAP

AMONGST UK'S YOUNG PEOPLE

The Problem

100 %

Net New Jobs created in Europe in the past 5 years were from companies less than 5 years old….

THE PACE OF CHANGE IN OUR ECONOMIES IS HIGH AND INCREASING

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I would be able to grow

my company faster if

applicants had the skills

needed to meet my

customer demand.

82%OF 163 SCALE-UPS

AGREE

79%OF 442 CEOs

AGREE

82%

“I would be able to grow my

company faster if applicants

had the skills needed to meet

my customer demand”

THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….

THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….

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Figure 4. The value of Apps in helping learning (students) (Longfield iPad Research, 2012)Figure 5. The value of Apps in helping teaching (staff) (Longfield iPad research, 2012)

Teacher ProductivityLearner Attainment

Over the next decade, more than one billion

young people will enter the global labour market

and only 40% will be in jobs that currently exist.

-The Economist January 2016

• Facebook brought us closer to our

friends, LinkedIn has provided us with

invaluable business tools, and Twitter

has brought the world to our fingertips.

• Edmodo has been bringing the power of

the web and mobile to students and has

become the largest social learning

network in the world for k12 learning.

• Founders4Schools has brought the

power of LinkedIn to teachers so their

students can explore businesses within 5

miles of the school’s location and invite

them to speak to the students or help

students get workplace visits…

UNLEASHING THE POWER OF THE

BUSINESS COMMUNITY INTO THE CLASSROOM

Student Employer Encounters

OUR GOALS

➤ improve young people’s ability to make informed career decisions and improve their optimism about the future;

➤ help young people to increase their attainment and be more likely to enrol in post-secondary education;

➤ increase the employability of young people; and

➤ increase young people’s earnings after they complete their schooling

➤ By getting teachers to 4 student-employer encounters per annum

➤ By getting students 140 hours of work experience

Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab

Successful Entrepreneurs travel to schools to speak with students

Lucinda Bruce Gardyne from Genius Foods

Inspired by her child’s allergy to

gluten and her passion for

chemistry, Lucinda set about

creating a loaf so her eight year

old son Robin, who had a wheat

allergy, could dip bread soldiers

in his boiled eggs at breakfast.

“The speakers told us

stories about students of our

age who had created

businesses and so I thought

if they can do it, I could too.”

Maitri Panchal, Student

TIMING OF THE INTERVENTION IS KEY

➤ The timing of the intervention that will

provide inspiration along with the soft and

hard skills that will help a young person

become employable is critical from a

financial perspective.

➤ As the figure here highlights, the cost of

training a young person increases

exponentially with age: at age 14, the cost

is less than £ 1, at age 18 it is less than

£1000 but at age 25, it jumps to £10,000.

DELIVERING MEANINGFUL

ENCOUNTERS

Founders4Schools enables teachers

to access local business leaders to

schedule the following encounters:

➤Career Talks

➤Group or speed mentoring

➤Mock interviews

➤Career Fairs

➤Keynote career speeches

➤Workplace visits

➤Plus much more

DELIVERING MEANINGFUL

ENCOUNTERS

DELIVERING MEANINGFUL

ENCOUNTERS

TOTAL YOUNG PEOPLE BY

AGE

28

INSIGHT REPORT

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INSIGHT REPORT

UCL Academy, North West London

(click on the images to see an example of each series of events)

○ Sharpened students understanding of future careers.

○ Showed intricate links between the Science, Maths, Technology and Engineering areas.

○ Showed students how interesting and fun STEM can be.

CASE STUDY

Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador

Brentford School for Girls, West London

I was excited by how well it went and

how positive the reactions were.

Several experienced members of

staff at our school that often organise

public speaking events said they had

never seen an event so amazing!

It was extremely impactful, and the

variety and caliber of people took our

breath away.

Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador heard about Founders4schools from a colleague and created an event for

his economics students. Immediately after the event, the school’s assistant headteacher asked him how this was organised

and booked one more event for the beginning of the next academic year, for their Year 10 students. She then repeated this

for their next cohort.

CASE STUDY

GOOD CAREER GUIDANCE IS

CRITICAL IF YOUNG PEOPLE ARE TO

RAISE THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND

CAPITALISE ON THE OPPORTUNITIES

AVAILABLE TO THEM.

The Research

THE GATSBY

BENCHMARKS

➤ A stable careers programme

➤ Learning from career and labour market information

➤ Addressing the needs of each pupil

➤ Linking curriculum learning to careers

➤ Encounters with employers and employees

➤ Experiences of workplaces

➤ Encounters with further and higher education

➤ Personal guidance

“What Works.” Careers and Enterprise Company. Dec 2016.

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Guidance to teachers…..

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LOCAL AUTHORITY DASHBOARD

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SEARCH RESULTS FOR BIRMINGHAM

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BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS THAT HAVE USED F4S

ENCOUNTER PAGE EXAMPLE

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Guidance to Students….

“I would be able to grow my

company faster if applicants

had the skills needed to meet

my customer demand”

82%

“I would be able to grow my

company faster if applicants

had the skills needed to meet

my customer demand”

WHAT IS WORKFINDER?

workfinder.com

Improve your future employability by

finding work experience in local, high

growth companies!

1. SIGN UP

Quickly sign up using

Facebook or email

address

workfinder.com

workfinder.com

1. Sign Up: Date of Birth

workfinder.com

1. Sign Up: First & Last Name

workfinder.com

1. Sign Up: School Email Address (optional)

workfinder.com

1. Sign Up: Home Postcode

workfinder.com

2. Discover

Browse and discover local

growing companies

workfinder.com

3. Filter

Refine searches by

subject and industry of

interest

workfinder.com

4. View Company Profile

Read about annual

revenue and rate of growth

workfinder.com

5. Apply

Quickly and easily apply

for work experience roles

workfinder.com

5. Apply

Quickly and easily apply

for work experience roles

workfinder.com

5. Apply

Quickly and easily apply

for work experience roles

workfinder.com

5. Apply

workfinder.com

6. Send Application

workfinder.com

7. View Messages

Receive live updates on

the status of your

application

workfinder.com

8. Employer Rating

Rate your work experience

at the end of the

placement

EMPLOYER DASHBOARD

EMPLOYER DASHBOARD

THREE-WAY CONTRACT

“We know how important closing

the attainment gap is to our long-

term economic prosperity, so it’s

fantastic that apps like Workfinder

give businesses a new and

innovative way to connect with

students all across the UK

Well done for coming up with such

a pioneering idea”.

Paul Drechsler, CBI President

“Our members regularly tell us that

they struggle to find young adults

who are properly equipped for the

workplace”

“today’s launch of Workfinder

marks a huge step forward in

tackling this issue. Not only does it

provide young people with great

opportunities, it does so in the

digital space – the natural domain

of those who will excel in the high-

tech, high-skilled workplaces of the

future.”

Mike Cherry

Federation of Small Businesses

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Insight Reports and Dashboards

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CALL TO ACTION –

EDUCATORS➤ Pledge that each student you

are responsible for will get

their 4 student employee

encounters per annum if they

are under 16 and 1 week of

work experience per annum if

over the age of 16.

CALL TO ACTION – BUSINESS

LEADERS➤ Sign-up as a volunteer to

speak in a local classroom

CALL TO ACTION – LARGE

CORPORATES➤ Set-up Employee Engagement

with us and agree to host

workplace visits and work

experience placements

CALL TO ACTION – LOCAL

GOVERNMENT➤ Pledge that each young person

will get 4 student-employer

encounters per annum

CALL TO ACTION – PARENTS

➤ Ask your child’s headteacher

“how many student

employer encounters

my child will get this

year?”

CALL TO ACTION – MEDIA

➤ Visit your community’s

dashboard

➤ sign-up for the free alert

service,

➤ and write about the

educators who are doing the

most!

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THANK YOUSherry Coutu CBE

25 May 2017