Written by:
Mark Owen
Head of Companies to Stakeholders
Careers Wales
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Careers Wales is encouraging companies to hitch its Training Enterprise Partnership which creates hyperlinks between employers and colleges to encourage the subsequent era into the world of labor.
Mark Owen, Head of Companies to Stakeholders at Careers Wales, outlines how enterprise engagement with younger folks is usually a mutually helpful enterprise.
“Inspiring the subsequent era to construct their profession is on the coronary heart of what we do at Careers Wales and since our creation, we’ve helped numerous younger folks use their ardour to gas their futures.
“Our careers advisers help younger folks in pursuing their finest path to a top quality profession. They assist them to discover their private pursuits and strengths, take into account potential careers and establish {qualifications} and funding they may want, in addition to empowering them with the profession administration expertise they should navigate a always evolving labour market.
“However sitting alongside this is a useful asset; actual life experiences and a taster of the world of labor direct from employers assist develop the subsequent era of expertise.
“Analysis has proven the long-term advantages of employer engagement with younger folks, revealing they’re 25% much less more likely to change into NEET[1] (not in employment, training or coaching) if they’ve taken half in 4 or extra employer actions, and that younger individuals who had participated in a careers speak with employers may anticipate, on common, a 1.6% wage premium in comparison with their friends who didn’t take part[2].
“We all know that employers can assist learners to make connections between what they examine at school and the world of labor and produce areas of the curriculum to life via genuine studying experiences. They will elevate aspirations, inspire learners, improve their consciousness of the vary of profession alternatives accessible to them, and in doing so, positively affect topic decisions and longer-term profession planning. A survey of greater than 500 academics revealed that 90% thought that participating youngsters with employers has an influence on their educational achievement.[3]
“That’s the place our Training Enterprise Partnership (EBP) is available in. The EBP brings collectively colleges and companies with the goal of informing, inspiring and motivating learners about their profession alternatives. Companies can become involved within the EBP in quite a lot of methods: from attending careers festivals, providing eager college students work expertise placements or excursions of their premises, talking at colleges or turning into part of our colleges alumni mission.
“Our crew of devoted enterprise engagement advisers work intently with each the employers and colleges to help the preparation and coordination of careers actions and guarantee they meet the pupils’ studying wants.
“We work with lots of of companies of various sizes throughout Wales to ship a programme of employer engagement experiences in colleges and faculties, from college assemblies to digital displays to mock interview and CV workshops – all of which provides a taster of the world of labor to younger folks.
“Up to now yr, we now have coordinated 12 giant careers festivals and two digital profession discovery weeks, and helped facilitate over 300 on-line employer displays. Along with this, we now have organised greater than 1,000 occasions in secondary colleges with main employers together with BBC Cymru, Sony, Principality, Welsh Water and Castell Howell Meals in addition to native and small companies from throughout Wales.
“Whereas a few of these actions embody an employer’s first step in direction of supporting their native communities, additional down the road we see many corporations decide to our College Valued Accomplice scheme, the place they help particular person colleges regularly and kind robust and mutually helpful partnerships. Receiving recognition as a Valued Accomplice demonstrates a powerful enterprise dedication to nurturing future generations and interesting with native communities.
“Probably the most vital issues about this implausible partnership work is that companies, each giant and small, are additionally investing in their very own futures. By working with colleges, employers are elevating consciousness of their enterprise and sector, they will community with different companies inside the EBP, they usually can reap the benefits of alternatives to help the achievement of group objectives as a part of company social accountability plans.
“Maybe extra importantly, employers have entry to Wales’ workforce of the long run and can assist develop their expertise pipeline. Many younger folks is probably not conscious of the big selection of roles accessible inside a sector, or certainly what the roles themselves entail, so educating them on the earth of labor is just not solely helpful for his or her improvement but in addition opens the chance to achieve potential future in-demand workers.
“Investing time in learner engagement will reap rewards sooner or later, as inspiring and educating the subsequent era about careers is instrumental to constructing a future workforce for Wales.”
Case examine: Alun Griffiths building encourage pupils in Haverfordwest
Alun Griffiths, a South Welsh building agency, helped inform and encourage pupils in Haverfordwest about alternatives within the building and archaeology business throughout a mission the place each sectors are concerned.
The development agency is engaged on a mission to improve roads within the space alongside Dyfed Archaeological Belief who they teamed up with to carry out an space website dig as a part of the improve course of.
Almost 40 pupils had been capable of see first-hand the totally different roles and obligations concerned within the building and archaeology sectors, and learn the way the 2 organisations are contributing
to the Llanddewi Velfrey to Redstone Cross enhancements scheme.
The scholars heard from an archaeology advisor in regards to the business, what they’d discovered on the positioning, together with vital gadgets from prehistoric human durations, and the varied sort of duties archaeologists are required to hold out. In addition they heard from workers at Alun Griffiths in regards to the number of roles in building.
Carla Rendell, social worth supervisor at Alun Griffith, stated:
“Informing and provoking younger folks in regards to the big selection of roles inside our business is so essential in producing future workers to help the abilities gaps, in addition to helping pupils to consider their profession path.”
[1] Journal of Training and Work 2014: College-mediated employer engagement and labour market outcomes for younger adults: wage premia, NEET outcomes and profession confidence
[2] Journal of Training and Work 2016: Profession training that works: An financial evaluation utilizing the British Cohort Examine.
[3] Training and Employers 2017 report. Main futures: Connecting life and studying in UK main training
