Employer engagement

Launched by the social mobility charity upReach, Aspire was created to encourage state school students all over the UK to aim high and broaden their career horizons. Aimed at Year 12 and 13 students, these resources provide detailed information about a wide range of career options that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds may have limited exposure to through existing networks.

Developed by Inspiring Worcestershire. 

Passport to Hospitality has been designed with the student’s progression at the forefront. This brilliant project will take students on a tour around the Hospitality industry, learning about not only what services are classed as hospitality, it's history but what careers and entry level roles are available within the sector. 

Use this content-rich website to inform and inspire young people’s career choices – featuring over 1,000 videos of real people talking about their careers.

On this page you will find resources developed by the East Sussex Careers Hub to support people working with young people with SEND. Some of these are featured as content in the My Skills My Future programme.

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.

Skills Builder Benchmark is an online self-assessment tool. Individuals aged 11+ can register and record their reflections against the Skills Builder Framework.

Developed by the team in the Black Country Careers Hub this short resource is designed to support young people with SEND to understand what an entrepreneur is.  This resource features in the My Skills My Future programme. 

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.

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

How should you introduce the apprenticeship route to your students, so that they can start to make informed choices about their future? We challenge pre-conceptions and discover different areas of apprenticeships, some of which may surprise your pupils, using examples from across the British Army.

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.