Employer engagement

Animal Adaptions is a collection of practical STEM subject activities linked to employability skills.

Pupils look at how animals have adapted to cope with all sorts of conditions. They explore communication strategies, travel, camouflage and life in challenging settings, and look at the way humans can learn from animals.

This presentation was used in a workshop to support the thinking around the development of BM4 in a SEND setting. 

This is a template resource that can be adapted locally to help Careers Hub support their institutions to prepare for an ITP encounter.

How could we augment ourselves? is a collection of practical STEM subject activities linked to employability skills and careers. Students will consider how amazing the human body is and look at how it could be adapted. The activities explore how science and engineering can be used to augment humans, from using nutrition to improve brain functionality to exploring wing designs to make humans fly.

Access free online interactive resources, ready-made lessons and work experience opportunities – and build them into your progressive careers programme.

This well-known resource can be used to help contextualise the world of work alongside curriculum study – and support young people in making informed decisions.

Developed by VTCT (Vocational Training Charitable Trust), these resources will inform those considering a career in Beauty Therapy, Hairdressing or Barbering industries and their parents/guardians of the options available to them and the opportunities for their future career.

Careers In Curriculum- resources by subject to help teachers deliver careers in curriculum within their lessons.

This guide has been designed to support Careers Leaders to support staff to link curriculum learning to careers.

Support for Careers Leaders to develop curriculum learning that highlights the relevance of subjects to future careers and opportunities will inform, inspire, and engage students.

We have identified three approaches with related resource and support for Careers Leaders to ensure that staff are supported to see the value of and understand how to highlight the relevance of their subject, make links from curriculum to careers and to potentially embed curriculum learning in the context of the world of work.

The Black Country Careers Hub have developed a number of resources to support those working with young people with SEND in the different settings.  Many of these resources are featured in the My Skills My Future programme. 

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.

Our five immersive films follow two young people navigating a national crisis and brings to life the importance of building character in 5 engaging lessons.