Employer Standards on the Resource Directory
Employer Standards for Careers Education
These resources will help you progress through the different scoring levels for each Standard (Aspiring, Achieving, Exceeding). Your recommendations report will guide you to most appropriate resources to support your improvement, for example:
- Video case studies – stories and suggestions from other employers who’ve been striving to achieve or exceed against each standard.
- Evidence packs – statistics and resources to help you build the business case for doing more.
- Taking Action documents – tailored suggestions to improve against each standard depending on your size and score.
Inspire young people for their best next step
Prepare young people to be career ready
Collaborate for success
About the Employer Standards for Careers Education
The Employer Standards for Careers Education provides a rigorous framework that enables businesses to understand what good careers education outreach looks like. Self-assessing against the framework will enable you to plan and structure engagement, ask the right questions, connect and share peer expertise and engage effectively with young people in schools, special schools and colleges. It will also allow you to benchmark yourself against others and access resources to support you progress.
Employer engagement is key to excellent careers education for young people, and the benefits are not one sided. Engaging with careers education can also provide numerous benefits for businesses, such as:
- Discovering new and diverse talent
- Building brand awareness
- Developing/engaging employees
- Myth busting about your sector/profession
- Connecting locally and giving back to the community