Employer engagement

This toolkit is intended to be simple to use, helping Careers Leaders and others support and develop youth social action. the resource aims to enable more of their young people to be active citizens in their school or college and wider communities.

On the 21st March we create a single global voice advocating for the rights, inclusion and well being of people with Down syndrome. This year we want to End The Stereotypes.

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Empower young people to recognise their abilities and talk about their strengths – helping to improve their self-confidence and career planning skills.

This is a costed resource.

Developed by Black Country Careers Hub and Cadent gas Cornerstone Employer.

These videos can be accessed by neuro-diverse pupils to inspire them to be what they what to be and challenge those stereotypes.

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. 

This activity has been developed by College Park School and is part of the My Skills My Future programme.  It contains a lesson plan and accompanying resources aimed at young people in SEND group 1.

Unifish is your guide to higher education in London when you need a little more support, brought to you by Aimhigher London. It is a fully searchable and filterable website in multiple ways including by type of support and location.

These resources are taken from the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership Unbox Your Future pilot project targeting 1,500 NEET or Unknown Young People.

This resource is designed to support Careers Leaders and other staff involved in the transition process from Key Stage 2 into Key Stage 3, exploring opportunities to embed careers activities and parental engagement across the full range of transition opportunities.

It takes you through the three phases:

1. Decision making (Y4,5,6) while children and parents /carers are still considering their options
2. Decision made (Y6) once the children have been allocated their secondary school
3. Started (Y7) once the children have started their secondary school.

Help students identify their own skills – as well as the areas where they might need further development – and encourage reflection in a fun and engaging way.

The Panjango Game is a fast-moving board game that explores the world of work in a fun way – developing key skills such as teamworking and problem solving.

How do you find a job you’ll love? What will it take to land that dream role? How do you discover what your dream job is?

The Careers Podcast interviews people doing all kinds of different jobs, finding out what they do, what they love about it and how they got to where they are now.