1. Developing young people’s employability skills Sue Barr Strengthening Careers Education and Guidance in Schools CDI Regional Conferences Autumn 2014

2. 2 Employability – definition …having the capability to gain initial employment, maintain employment and obtain new employment if required

3. 3 For the individual, employability their assets in terms of the knowledge, skills and attitudes they possess the way they use and deploy those assets the way they present them to employers the context (e.g. personal circumstances and labour market environment) within which they see work depends on:

4. 4 Breadth – the ability to apply knowledge across situations Depth of technical & functional knowledge & skills What Do Employers Want?

5. 5 Employer 1 passionate about retail focusing on customer & striving to understand them driven to achieve results through determination committed to fairness and consistency willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done determined to respond to feedback motivated to work in partnership to achieve results adaptable and flexible to work in 24/7 business devoted to investing in own development

6. 6 Employer 2 highly motivated – inspired to take on responsibility early in career resilient and tough – able to operate under pressure commercially minded – committed to company goals teamworker – genuine interest in other people sense of humour – pulling together with the team drive – work hard and play hard

7. 7 Employer 3 innovative people looking for a new career challenge responsive, agile thinkers who can adapt to meet challenging customer needs talent, pure and simple

8. 8 Employer 4 confidence in ability positive self esteem prepared to “have a go” perseverance curiosity, challenge and optimism self-discipline ability to work independently and in a team determination to succeed

9. “Employability skills are the skills that almost everyone needs to do almost any job” Self- management Thinking and solving problems Working together and communicating Understanding the business Using numbers effectively Using language effectively Using IT effectively Positive approach UK CES The Employability Challenge

10. 10 Your employability strategy what are you trying to achieve? how will you organise learning? how will you know when you’ve got there? Disciplined curriculum innovation – making a difference to learners, QCA 2008

11. 11 What are we trying to achieve? S Skills A Attitudes K Knowledge E Experiences

12. 12 Strategy – setting out your aims for students work in groups of 2-3 use the Strategic Planning sheet agree as a pair the attitudes, skills, knowledge and experiences students should have in relation to their employability whole group feedback

13. 13 How will you organise learning? Once you are clear about your aims, how will you ensure you can achieve them? where in the curriculum do students develop employability skills? what approaches to learning will you need? how will you build in assessment?

14. 14 Employability skills activity working in pairs, set out the 22 employability skills agree as a pair the top 9 that you would like your students to have organise them into a ‘diamond 9’ whole group feedback

15. 15 Identifying my employability skills Situation Task Action Result

16. 16 Delivery models – key lessons a mixed model is most effective – integrated into all lessons – some discrete lessons (eg. PSHEe) – reflection in tutorial time – enrichment activities for impact structure and plan the programme against learning outcomes incorporate ‘compelling’ learning approaches make use of experts including external partners plan assessment from beginning and monitor outcomes and impact

17. 17 Who will you work with? careers advisers universities FE colleges employers training providers

18. 18 Some currently funded programmes

19. 19 How will you know you’ve got there? attitude questionnaires (young people, staff, parents, other partners) young people’s focus group/discussion destination data attainment data employers’ views of young people’s employability observation during activities/lessons assessing students’ work previous Ofsted judgements

20. 20 Sue Barr sue@suebarr.co.uk For further details please contact www.educationforemployability.co.uk