Employability and Enterprise skills

Through our workshops students develop the work readiness and transferable skills, such as teamwork, problem solving, and communication, they will need for their future career. All our workshops include diverse volunteers from our employer partners, ensuring meaningful employer engagement activities, and supporting students to gain confidence in the workplace and professional relationships.

These events will help you to embed a stable careers platform (Gatsby Benchmark 1), create encounters with employers and employees (Gatsby Benchmarks 5) and ensure students get to Learning from Career and Labour Market Information (Gatsby Benchmark 2).

Our work with schools and businesses offers a wide range of opportunities to help develop students’ employability skills in an impactful way. The different types of opportunities we offer include:

• Employability skills developments

• Labour Market Information and pathways into work

• CV workshops

• Interview skills and mock interviews

• Career Fairs

• Industry Insight Visits

Kickstart Express

Kickstart Express is a series of workshops for Key Stage 4 students, designed to develop young people’s understanding of and confidence about the local job market, routes into employment and what employers are looking for, preparing young people for working life in their local area.

Delivered over 7 hours in total, the workshops can be hosted in school or online, and to a timetable that best reflects the needs of the students.

Career Mentoring

CONNECT mentoring has been delivered successfully for 4 years in West London.

It is a six-session mentoring programme for young women on Pupil Premium, during which they are matched with women in leadership positions, gaining real-world employability skills such as CV writing and interview skills, and also learning how to set and achieve career goals.