Business in the Community is working with Wolverhampton City Council on an exciting range of activities to support participants who are furthest from the job market into work. The programme, focusing on refugees and migrants participating in Wolverhampton City Council’s Languages at Work scheme, is looking to mobilise businesses across Wolverhampton to help participants move towards productive working lives.

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Careers Conversation- Business Volunteering Opportunity
(Wolverhampton)
Want to develop your coaching and mentoring skills?
Business in the Community is working with Wolverhampton City Council on an exciting range of activities to support participants
who are furthest from the job market into work. The programme, focusing on refugees and migrants participating in Wolverhampton
City Council’s Languages at Work scheme, is looking to mobilise businesses across Wolverhampton to help participants move
towards productive working lives.
Careers Conversations
As part of this project we are looking to engage businesses to set up our Careers Conversations in Wolverhampton, to support
residents with English as a second language to improve their language and employability skills to gain work. As a Careers Buddy you
would be partnered with an ESOL learner from Wolverhampton for 6 weeks.
What would you do?
Practice conversation with ESOL learners and support them to search and apply for jobs, prepare for interviews and
gain confidence.
What’s in it for you?
Developing others is deeply rewarding, practicing these skills with new demographics will enable you to enhance your
communication and coaching skills, and gain a better understanding of the diversity in our local community. You will also
be trained in basic ESOL teaching techniques.
Who can take part?
Anyone can volunteer – you will receive training and support throughout the programme, providing you with the teaching,
assessment techniques, methods and resources you need.
When is it?
We are looking to start this programme in Wolverhampton in February 2018- March 2018, with opportunities to engage
on an ongoing basis.
Where?
This will be hosted at a business in Wolverhampton once a week for six weeks. If you are interested in hosting the
programme, please contact us.
Why are we working in Wolverhampton1
?
• 24 per cent of Wolverhampton City’s neighbourhoods fall into the 20 per cent most deprived nationally.
• The total number of jobs that need to be filled in Wolverhampton over the next 5 years is over 114,000.
• There are 4,400 troubled families within the county and city in need of supportive interventions.
1 The English Indices of Deprivation 2015

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Schedule of activities (might be subject to change):
Date Activity Description
Wed 25th April
11am-12.30pm
Workshop 1 • Measuring progress
• Getting to know you
• Reflection
Wed 2nd
May
11am-12.30pm
Workshop 2 • Job search
• Reflection
• ‘What Employers want’ worksheet
Wed 9th May
11am-12.30pm
Workshop 3 • CV
• Reflection
Wed 16th May
11am-12.30pm
Workshop 4 • Cover letter
• Reflection
Wed 23nd May
11am-12.30pm
Workshop 5 • Interview practice
• Reflection
Wed 6th June
11am-12.30pm
Workshop 6 • Careers Carousel
• Reflection
• Measuring progress
Tue 26th June
10am-2pm
Evaluation Day • Student Evaluation
• Volunteer Evaluation
Other opportunities
There are several other opportunities to engage in our work in the West Midlands area, including:
• Behind the Scenes’ visits to your business - offering jobseekers a tour of your business with a
presentation, fact-finding session and a chance to explain your recruitment processes
• Hosting our pre-employment training - hosting a training day at your business, with business
volunteers facilitating sessions around interview technique, confidence building, work readiness and
action planning
• Offering work placements - Hosting a participant for an inspirational 2/3-week work placement within
your business, to help participants build skills and confidence.
For more information please contact:
Andreea Tudor, Employment Programme Manager, Business in the Community
07713 620 642/ Andreea.Tudor@bitc.org.uk
Jack Gibson, Employment Operations Manager, Business in the Community
07901 513 927/ Jack.Gibson@bitc.org.uk