This document discusses the skills gap among young people in the UK and solutions to address it. It notes that most new jobs are created by small, young companies and that over 80% of CEOs say they could grow faster if applicants had the needed skills. The document proposes getting students 4 encounters with employers per year and 140 hours of work experience to improve employability. It describes the Workfinder app that connects students to work experiences at local, growing companies and allows them to apply online. The document calls on educators, businesses, governments, parents and media to take actions that will provide more student-employer encounters and work experiences to help close the skills gap.

1. Employability Briefing for Derby
Sherry Coutu CBE
25 May 2017

2. “Tinker Tailor Soldier or Spy”

3. THERE IS A MAJOR
SKILLS GAP
AMONGST UK'S
YOUNG PEOPLE
The Problem

4. 100 %
Net New Jobs created in Europe in the past 5 years were from companies less than 5 years old….
THE PACE OF CHANGE IN OUR ECONOMIES IS HIGH AND INCREASING

7. #scaleu

8. I would be able to grow
my company faster if
applicants had the skills
needed to meet my
customer demand.
82%OF 163 SCALE-UPS
AGREE
79%OF 442 CEOs
AGREE

9. 82%
“I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants
had the skills needed to meet
my customer demand”

10. THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….

11. THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….
#scaleu

14. Figure 4. The value of Apps in helping learning (students) (Longfield iPad Research, 2012)
Figure 5. The value of Apps in helping teaching (staff) (Longfield iPad research, 2012)
Teacher ProductivityLearner Attainment

16. Over the next decade, more than one billion
young people will enter the global labour market
and only 40% will be in jobs that currently exist.
-The Economist January 2016

17. • Facebook brought us closer to our
friends, LinkedIn has provided us with
invaluable business tools, and Twitter
has brought the world to our fingertips.
• Edmodo has been bringing the power of
the web and mobile to students and has
become the largest social learning
network in the world for k12 learning.
• Founders4Schools has brought the
power of LinkedIn to teachers so their
students can explore businesses within 5
miles of the school’s location and invite
them to speak to the students or help
students get workplace visits…

18. UNLEASHING THE
POWER OF THE
BUSINESS
COMMUNITY INTO
THE CLASSROOM
Student Employer Encounters

19. OUR GOALS
➤ improve young people’s ability to make
informed career decisions and improve
their optimism about the future;
➤ help young people to increase their
attainment and be more likely to enrol in
post-secondary education;
➤ increase the employability of young
people; and
➤ increase young people’s earnings after
they complete their schooling
➤ By getting teachers to 4 student-employer
encounters per annum
➤ By getting students 140 hours of work
experience

20. Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab
Successful Entrepreneurs travel to schools to speak with students

21. Lucinda Bruce Gardyne from Genius Foods
Inspired by her child’s allergy to
gluten and her passion for
chemistry, Lucinda set about
creating a loaf so her eight year
old son Robin, who had a wheat
allergy, could dip bread soldiers
in his boiled eggs at breakfast.

22. “The speakers told us
stories about students of our
age who had created
businesses and so I thought
if they can do it, I could too.”
Maitri Panchal, Student

23. TIMING OF THE INTERVENTION IS KEY
➤ The timing of the intervention that will
provide inspiration along with the soft and
hard skills that will help a young person
become employable is critical from a
financial perspective.
➤ As the figure here highlights, the cost of
training a young person increases
exponentially with age: at age 14, the cost
is less than £ 1, at age 18 it is less than
£1000 but at age 25, it jumps to £10,000.

24. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERS
Founders4Schools enables teachers
to access local business leaders to
schedule the following encounters:
➤ Career Talks
➤ Group or speed mentoring
➤ Mock interviews
➤ Career Fairs
➤ Keynote career speeches
➤ Workplace visits
➤ Plus much more

25. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERS

26. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERS

27. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERS

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We wonder if you’ve seen
our new ordering facilities
that bring down the time
to put in an order to less
than a minute?
We can arrange a
workshop to introduce
you to other educators
who arrange workplace
visits and some of the
other encounter-types.

29. UCL Academy, North West London
(click on the images to see an example of each series of events)
○ Sharpened students understanding of future careers.
○ Showed intricate links between the Science, Maths, Technology and Engineering areas.
○ Showed students how interesting and fun STEM can be.
CASE STUDY

30. Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador
Brentford School for Girls, West London
I was excited by how well it went and
how positive the reactions were.
Several experienced members of
staff at our school that often organise
public speaking events said they had
never seen an event so amazing!
It was extremely impactful, and the
variety and caliber of people took our
breath away.
Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador heard about Founders4schools from a colleague and created an event for
his economics students. Immediately after the event, the school’s assistant headteacher asked him how this was organised
and booked one more event for the beginning of the next academic year, for their Year 10 students. She then repeated this
for their next cohort.
CASE STUDY

31. GOOD CAREER
GUIDANCE IS
CRITICAL IF YOUNG
PEOPLE ARE TO
RAISE THEIR
ASPIRATIONS AND
CAPITALISE ON THE
OPPORTUNITIES
AVAILABLE TO THEM.
The Research

32. THE GATSBY
BENCHMARKS
➤ A stable careers programme
➤ Learning from career and labour market informa
➤ Addressing the needs of each pupil
➤ Linking curriculum learning to careers
➤ Encounters with employers and employees
➤ Experiences of workplaces
➤ Encounters with further and higher education
➤ Personal guidance

33. “What Works.” Careers and Enterprise Company. Dec 2016.

34. UP-SKILL WITH
SCALE UPS TO
SOLVE THE SKILLS
GAP
Guidance to teachers…..

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36. 36
Number of secondary school and further education in Derby Local Authority

37. 37
Your local labour market is strong with regards to STEM subject matches to the curriculum and
the industries that present as the fastest growing are:
- Maths
- Science
- Chemistry

38. 38
Schools that have used Founders4Schools in Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire LEP

39. UP-SKILL WITH
SCALE UPS TO
SOLVE THE SKILLS
GAP
Guidance for students…

40. “I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants
had the skills needed to meet
my customer demand”

41. 82%
“I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants
had the skills needed to meet
my customer demand”

43. WHAT IS WORKFINDER?
workfinder.com
Improve your future employability by
finding work experience in local, high
growth companies!

44. 1. SIGN UP
Quickly sign up using
Facebook or email
address
workfinder.com

45. workfinder.com
1. Sign Up: Date of Birth

46. workfinder.com
1. Sign Up: First & Last Name

47. workfinder.com
1. Sign Up: School Email Address (optional)

48. workfinder.com
1. Sign Up: Home Postcode

49. workfinder.com
2. Discover
Browse and discover local
growing companies

50. workfinder.com
3. Filter
Refine searches by
subject and industry of
interest

51. workfinder.com
4. View Company Profile
Read about annual
revenue and rate of growth

52. workfinder.com
5. Apply
Quickly and easily apply
for work experience roles

53. workfinder.com
5. Apply
Quickly and easily apply
for work experience roles

54. workfinder.com
5. Apply
Quickly and easily apply
for work experience roles

55. workfinder.com
5. Apply

56. workfinder.com
6. Send Application

57. workfinder.com
7. View Messages
Receive live updates on
the status of your
application
And nudges towards other
employers you might
consider….

58. workfinder.com
8. Employer Rating
Rate your work experience
at the end of the
placement

59. EMPLOYER DASHBOARD

60. EMPLOYER DASHBOARD

61. THREE-WAY CONTRACT

62. “We know how important closing
the attainment gap is to our long-
term economic prosperity, so it’s
fantastic that apps like Workfinder
give businesses a new and
innovative way to connect with
students all across the UK
Well done for coming up with such
a pioneering idea”.
Paul Drechsler, CBI President

63. “Our members regularly tell us that
they struggle to find young adults
who are properly equipped for the
workplace”
“today’s launch of Workfinder
marks a huge step forward in
tackling this issue. Not only does it
provide young people with great
opportunities, it does so in the
digital space – the natural domain
of those who will excel in the high-
tech, high-skilled workplaces of the
future.”
Mike Cherry
Federation of Small Businesses

64. UP-SKILL WITH
SCALE UPS TO
SOLVE THE SKILLS
GAP
Insight Reports and
Dashboards

66. #scaleuTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu

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70. CALL TO ACTION –
EDUCATORS➤ Pledge that each student you
are responsible for will get
their 4 student employee
encounters per annum if they
are under 16 and 1 week of
work experience per annum if
over the age of 16.

71. CALL TO ACTION – BUSINESS
LEADERS➤ Sign-up as a volunteer to
speak in a local classroom

72. CALL TO ACTION – LARGE
CORPORATES➤ Set-up Employee Engagement
with us and agree to host
workplace visits and work
experience placements

73. CALL TO ACTION – LOCAL
GOVERNMENT➤ Pledge that each young person
will get 4 student-employer
encounters per annum

74. CALL TO ACTION – PARENTS
➤ Ask your child’s headteacher how
many student employer
encounters your child will get this
year?

75. CALL TO ACTION – MEDIA
➤ Visit your community’s dashboard,
sign-up for the free alert service,
and write about the educators are
doing the most!

76. EMPLOYABILITY TRAINING
SEMINARS
23 MAY 12:30
27 JUNE 12:30

77. THANK YOUSherry Coutu CBE
25 May 2017