Employer engagement

We connect young people with inspirational, eye opening virtual work experience opportunities with some of the largest employers both locally and nationally.

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.

Students will work in small teams to complete a wide range of tasks in order to stage the biggest and best festival ever! Working alongside leading practitioners, a series of free resources, lesson plans, films and activities have been created to bust the myths surrounding careers in the creative sector and provide a wider understanding of the less traditional, yet in-demand, roles.

Launch Your Career is a transformational career search and discovery platform, that uses VIRTUAL REALITY to engage and immerse young people on a personalized journey.

Developed by Inspiring Worcestershire Careers Hub this resource should support SEND students to learn how to start to understand that talking to adults about the world of work can help them map out and understand their future career pathways.

Developed by the The Careers & Enterprise Company, Work It is a series of careers talks with young people, for young people. 

This paper provides evidence on business games and enterprise competitions to help schools, colleges and providers of careers and enterprise programmes use the evidence to shape the programmes they are running and developing.

Created by the London team this resource supports thinking around virtual experiences of the workplace for schools and businesses. 

Developed by the team at the Black Country Careers Hub this resource contains a slide deck and teacher guide for a lesson to raise awareness of careers in the Transport Sector with young people with SEND. These resources are featured in the My Skills My Future programme.

Developed by the team at the Black Country Careers Hub this resource contains a slide deck and teacher guide for a lesson to raise awareness of careers in the Business Sector with young people with SEND. These resources are featured in the My Skills My Future programme.

To support Careers Leaders with impact evaluation, we have created a guidance document on ‘How to write your own survey questions’. 

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.