Helping Shape Your Workforce of Tomorrow 

Many businesses are struggling to recruit people with the right skills.  

Working with schools is a proven way of developing young people's skills for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

Those businesses that do, say working with the education sector is helping them develop talent pipelines, close skills gaps, increase diversity and attract job and apprenticeship applicants. It also helps companies deliver social value in their communities. 

Your business can be part of the solution, make a difference and help shape the skills of your future workforce.   

Key Benefits: 

• The Employer Standards is a free framework and tool developed to help businesses plan strategically what they want to achieve from working with education. 

• The Standards will help businesses review the quality of their outreach as well support them to align their engagement with their business objectives. 

• The Standards enables businesses to confidentially assess their performance against their peers, nationally, sectorally, and regionally. 

• The framework and tool will provide an evidence pack underpinning each Standard to support their business case, inspirational case studies from other businesses and curated resources to help improve the quality of the business’ careers education outreach. 

Visit the Employer Standards for Careers Education page to learn more and review the free framework and assessment tool.