Transcript Inspiring the Future Status Update

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Working together to help young people achieve their potential
www.inspiringthefuture.org
Context
When it comes to deciding on a career today’s
young people face very difficult decisions and the
financial penalty for making a bad decision is
higher than ever before
What influences young people?
Family, relatives / friends of family / relatives
School
teachers
curriculum
Careers advisors
Media inc social media, web etc
Employers /ees - working in range of industries and across
the private, public and third sectors
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Key findings:
• 95% of young people would like employers to be more
involved in providing advice and guidance about careers
and jobs
• 42% of young people had no contact with employers at all
• Young people who had been in contact with four or more
employers were nearly twice as likely to believe that they
had a good idea of the knowledge and skills needed for the
jobs they wanted to do
• 90% of employers agreed they should take a role in helping
to provide careers advice related activities to young people
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Professor Louise Archer, King’s College, London
Survey of 9000 10/11 year old children
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scientist
General lack of knowledge of careers in science
Taskforce YouGov survey of 19-24 year olds
Correlation between NEET status at 19-24 and number of employer engagement
activities undertaken whilst in education (aged 14-19)
Which of the
NEETs
following BEST
Non-NEET
applies to you?
Weighted Base
Kendall’s Tau C P value =
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Some schools and colleges arrange for their students (aged
between 14 and 19) to take part in activities which involve
employers or local business people providing things like work
experience, mentoring, enterprise activity, careers advice, CV or
interview practice. On how many different occasions do you
remember such employer involvement in your education?
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4 or more
26.1%
23.4%
16.6%
15.6%
4.3%
73.9%
76.6%
83.4%
84.4%
95.7%
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Research
It’s who you meet: why employer contacts at school make a difference to the employment prospects of
young adults –
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Shows a significant link between young people’s experience of the world of work whilst at school
and the chances of them becoming NEET
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26.1% of young people who could recall no contact with employers whilst at school went on to
become NEET
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This reduced significantly to 4.3% for those who had taken part in four or more activities involving
employers
National Careers Council – ‘An Aspirational Nation: Creating a culture change in careers provision’ –
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Calls for more careers insights for young people, and highlights how employers could support
schools and colleges and give young people insights into the world of work
• ‘Employers should encourage their employees to volunteer to go into schools and colleges to give
students insights into different careers, enthuse them about the world of work and provide access to
active experience of work’.
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Our vision: to ensure that every school
and college has an effective partnership
with employers to provide its young
people with the inspiration, motivation,
knowledge, skills and opportunities
they need to help them achieve their
potential and so to secure the UK's
future prosperity.
Our Partnerships Board
Senior representatives of the national
organisations representing schools
and colleges;
...and employers;
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What is Inspiring the Future?
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Inspiring the Future is a FREE service whereby employees from all sectors and professions from
Apprentices to CEOs pledge one hour a year to volunteer to go into state schools and colleges to talk
about their jobs, careers, and the education routes they took
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It is a FREE service endorsed by Government (with cross-party support), the UK’s main teacher and
employer representative organisations and many leading employers
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It makes a difference to young people. Good quality research shows that who you meet as a
teenager shapes the success with which young people go into adult life
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Teachers overwhelmingly want young people to hear more from people in the workplace
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We have signed up nearly 16,000 volunteers from 4,000 different organisations and our growth is steadily
rising
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Over 6,000 teachers from more than 3,00 schools and colleges have already signed up, and we have
recently launched our Primary Futures campaign to primary schools
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Over 40,000 invites have been sent from teachers to volunteers
School Teacher Cumulative Line Graph
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Volunteer Cumulative Line Graph
Benefits for Employers
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Free secure service that makes it easy to engage with state schools and colleges by matching employee
volunteers
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Communicating with young people offers excellent personal development opportunities for employees
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An effective means of supporting corporate social responsibility and long-term recruitment objectives
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A gateway to working with schools and colleges, across a wide range of activities that support learning and
progression
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Free reports for employers through dedicated registration links
"I just thought I would drop you a note about the careers fair today. It was a great event where
young people were given the opportunity to explore ALL the different options open to them
when they leave school. The young people I met were really engaged and I really enjoyed
assisting them on widening their horizons". Volunteer PwC
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ITF Employer Reports
First Last
Name Name
Job role/Title
Activity Menu
Item
ITF Activity Date Hours
Project Manager
Kidderminster I’m happy to be involved
College
Career Insights
04/03/2014
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Higher Apprentice
Priory School I’m happy to be involved
Career Insights
04/03/2014
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IT Consultant
Greenbank
High School
I’m happy to be involved
Career Insights
10/07/2014
1
Training Manager
Rossett
School
I’m happy to be involved
Mock Interviews
11/07/2014
1
Director
Rossett
School
I’m happy to be involved
Help with CVs
11/07/2014
1
Business Development Kidderminster I’m happy to be involved
Manager
College
Career Insights
04/03/2014
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Junior Developer
The George
Eliot School
I’m happy to be involved
Career Insights
07/03/2014
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Recruitment Officer
Aldermoor
I’m happy to be involved
Farm Primary
School
Dunraven
I’m happy to be involved
School
Career Insights
09/06/2014
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Career Insights
09/07/2014
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St Bede's
I’m happy to be involved
Catholic
School & 6th
Form College
Whitley
I’m happy to be involved
Academy
Career Insights
04/07/2014
1
Career Insights
03/07/2014
1
I’m happy to be involved
Career Insights
30/06/2014
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Graphic Designer
Communications
Manager
HR Business Partner
Graduate Accountant
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Education
Centre
Latest Invite Response
Name
Bishop
Vesey's
Grammar
School
Impact
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Impact
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Benefits for Schools and Colleges
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Nearly 16,000 diverse volunteers waiting for teachers to invite them to talk to their pupils about their jobs, and
the routes they took to get there, or even CV and interview insights at the click of a button
How does it work
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When teaching staff log on to the system, they get a list of all those people registered in their area who can speak
to young people about different specialisms and activities, and it’s a simple process to send a message through
the system to get in touch
Specialisms
Apprenticeships
Design and Manufacturing
Activities
Career Insights
Help with CVs
Enterprise/Entrepreneurs
Mock Interviews
Maths – Using it at work
Numeracy relating to careers
(Primary)
Reading relating to careers
(Primary)
Being contacted about becoming a
school governor
Science and Technology
Languages – French,
German, Italian, Spanish,
Russian, Mandarin,
Japanese, Urdu, Arabic
"The applicants really enjoyed the session and it was great to have help from such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable
volunteer. In fact, 2 out of the 6 applicants who attended the session on 17th January, have since secured an Apprenticeship
position which is brilliant". Northampton College
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Types of Events – Schools/Colleges use ITF for
Careers Networking
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Careers Fair
Talk
Impact
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Impact
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Signing up is quick and easy
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Signing up is quick and easy
Add different specialisms
Tell schools a little bit about your job and qualifications
Add different locations where you can volunteer in
Select different activities you could help with
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Example of volunteer profile
that a teacher will view
Impact
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Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women Campaign
• The Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaigns aims to get 15,000 inspirational women by the end of 2014 into
schools, talking to girls to broaden their horizons and raise aspirations
Follow the Inspiring Women blog: www.itfinspiringwomen.wordpress.com
Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Languages
Already there are hundreds of volunteers who use languages in
their jobs who've offered to go into schools to talk to pupils from
lawyers to engineers and psychologists, using their languages in
organisations ranging from Rolls Royce to Save the Children, from
PR companies to banks.
Languages include French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Italian,
Mandarin, Japanese, Urdu, and many more.
"Inviting working professionals into schools to give
pupils first hand insights into the breadth of the jobs
market and its recruitment demands is a great
example of the sort of good practice that Ofsted
expects schools to include when providing young
people with effective independent careers guidance."
Karen Adiaanse HMI, National Lead for Careers
Guidance, Ofsted
Inspiring Languages Week is promoted jointly by charity the
Education and Employers Taskforce, the British Council, the British
Academy, Speak to the Future, Routes into Languages and many
other organisations
How to get involved
• Existing Inspiring the Future volunteers, or people signing up to
Inspiring the Future for the first time, simply go to:
www.inspringthefuture.org and either login or go to register
and click ‘Volunteers register here’.
• In the ‘My Job Profile’ section, they select ‘Languages’ from
the section ‘Do you have experience at work of any of the
following’ and their profile will be available to teachers looking
for people that can speak to young people about using
languages in their job/career.
Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies signed up
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Key Contacts
For any queries please contact:
Department
Name
Job Title
Email Address
Telephone
Number
Inspiring the Future
Director
Phil Pyatt
Director – Inspiring
the Future
[email protected]
0203 206 0454
Employer Engagement
Oliver Hallam
Business
Development
Manager
[email protected]
0203 206 0507
Inspiring Women
Campaign
Gabriella Oakley
Inspiring Women
Engagement
Manager
[email protected]
07703 734840
Schools Team
Charlotte
Lightman
Schools Liaison
Manager
[email protected]
0203 206 0510
PR & Communications
Carol Glover
PR &
Communications
Manager
[email protected]
07939 061 850
[email protected]
0203 206 0510
General Enquiries
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