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“Fluency is exactly what we need as an answer to job accessibility for young people”
-Amy Wilson, Together We’re Better
26 million young people in developed countries are without work
Number of young people without work has grow 30% since 2007Source: OECD, 2014
Why we exist
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Why is Getting Digital important?
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Digital skills are job skills. Most jobs today require a level of digital fluency - even in non-digital roles. With digital skills, young people are 25% more likely to find work and earn on average 10% more when in work.
Over 50% of jobs in the last ten years in the UK were created by 6% of companies, mostly in the tech sector. In the next 10 years in London alone, it is predicted that the tech sector will create 46,000 jobs.
An extra 745,000 people with digital skills will be needed by 2017.
What we do
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Learn: Modules and lessons
47 lessons in 7 modules presently:
● Digital Fundamentals● Social Media● SEO and Content Marketing● WordPress● Email Marketing● Analytics● Digital Employability
+ roadmap of future content including Digital Advertising, Mobile Marketing and HTML/CSS Basics.
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Learn: Curated resources
Best-in-class curated resources from the web allow us to:
1. Work with subject experts2. Keep content up-to-date3. Work with partners to host
their own learning content and create a bespoke learning journey
Resources are embedded into content where possible or presented in an overlay for great user experience
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Learn: Quizzes and reflections
Short-term recall is tested with in-lesson quizzes or in-lesson reflections
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Learn: Challenges
But we believe that you only really learn digital by doing it.
Challenges are interspersed within lessons: a learner can put what they have learned into practice.
Challenges are either critical thinking exercises - eg Make a video teaching Granny Smurf about the internet - or practical ones - eg Install these three extensions into Chrome.
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Do: Practice with Projects
Projects are bigger pieces of work that a learner can complete to gain real-world experience and build their portfolio of work.
Projects can be practice projects - bringing together the learning in a lesson - or projects posted by a business, further linking the learner to the workplace.
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Showcase: Profile
A new version of profiles coming in October will showcase:
● The learner’s activity on the site in a dashboard
● Their challenges and projects (if they choose to make them public)
● Their awards● Reviews and
recommendations
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Access to work: Jobs board
But we don’t think it’s enough to just upskill young people when what they really need is work, so the last piece of puzzle is our Jobs Board and weekly bulletin connecting them to the best entry-level jobs in digital.
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Blended learning: Get Digital
Part-time, seven-week course to learn and gain work experience in digital skills.
● 7 modules over 7 weeks● 2.5 hours workshop each week● 7 industry guests speak about their
career journey● Delivered at your organisation, at our
training space in Shoreditch or in a range of digital companies
● Opportunity to work on real client briefs
● Meet and greet with employers at end of programme
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Blended learning: workshops
Bespoke workshops to complement the online learning.
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Partners
“The Prince's Trust partnered with Fluency to deliver digital training to young people on the Get Digital programme. The programme was incredibly successful and provided young people with an amazing array of digital skills entirely transferable into the workplace. Based on the skills learnt, many of the young people have been able to move into great jobs in areas such as digital media and content marketing. Fluency have determined the digital skills needed by young people and are now helping young people get into jobs by shaping their inherent digital literacy to enhance their employability and chances of future success. I believe their work is of huge importance and I very highly recommend them." Spencer Ayres, formerly Head of Technology, The Prince’s Trust
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Where are our learners now?
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Testimonials from our learners
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Who is Fluency suitable for at City?
Students studying:
● BA Cultural and Creative Industries
● BA Journalism
Other students wanting to improve their employability in the digital sector
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