These carefully curated resources are aimed at various stakeholders to help bring together the worlds of education and employment – and to ensure adherence to the Gatsby Benchmarks. Many have been developed by employers themselves. Simply filter the resources below to get started.
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My Week of Work: Wednesday
Introducing the world of Marketing. These lessons cover innovative thinking, creativity, marketing campaigns and promoting yourself as a brand.
My Week of Work: Tuesday
Introducing the world of Human Resources. These lessons cover work/life balance, dealing with stress at work and self-reflection, considering which careers options would suit you.
How to ask for Works Experience SEND activity
Developed by the Careers Hub Inspiring Worcestershire this resource is designed to support young people with SEND to think about the Work Experience process.
SEND Careers Health Checklist
This interactive checklist will support you to think about the Careers provision you have within your SEND setting.
Virtual Work Experience – Barclays
Barclays virtual work experience gives students the opportunity to find out what it is like to work in financial services and the range of job roles and core transferable skills which are used within a bank. LifeSkills also has a range of virtual work experience resources for students to use within a classroom environment to help upskill them for jobs across any industry.
Speakers for Schools: Virtual and onsite work experiences
We connect young people with inspirational, eye opening virtual work experience opportunities with some of the largest employers both locally and nationally.
Skills Builder Partnership Impact Directory
The Skills Builder Partnership brings together educators, employers and organisations around a common approach and mission: to support everyone to build the essential skills to succeed. The Impact Directory celebrates and shares the fantastic work of Skills Builder’s partners.
Work experience, job shadowing and workplace visits. What works?
This paper summarises the research on three forms of work related learning: work experience placements, job shadowing and workplace visits, showcasing the effectiveness of these activities and highlighting examples of best practice.
Work experience toolkit
Prepare for a student’s work experience placement with these easily adaptable templates and example paperwork – developed by the Tees Valley Combined Authority.
BM6 How to meet Gatsby Benchmark 6 more meaningfully and deliver positive student outcomes
Watch this webinar and accompanying resource to support planning and delivery of meaningful experiences of the workplace.
Blueprint: Virtual experience of the workplace
Created by the London team this resource supports thinking around virtual experiences of the workplace for schools and businesses.
Compass
Compass is a free digital product that helps you quickly and easily evaluate your careers provision against the eight Gatsby Benchmarks.
Compass is available to secondary schools, special schools, sixth forms, colleges, PRU’s and ITPs in England.