This document summarizes a social enterprise called This is UP that provides career development services and matches job seekers with employment opportunities. The enterprise helps unemployed, underemployed, and self-employed individuals improve their job prospects. It also assists employers by sourcing qualified candidates. This is UP conducted a pilot program that helped 20% of participants secure job interviews and 13% get jobs. The enterprise aims to expand its services and make its sustainable model available nationwide.

1. Social Enterprise-
A Call to Action
This is UP

2. Introduction
• This is UP is an enterprise with a social goal.
• We are committed to helping communities gain access to local
employment opportunities by matching employers with our
clients who engage in career development with us.
• We offer career development services to skilled employed, un-
employed, underemployed & self-employed to improve their
chances of securing employment opportunities.
• We make it easier for employers to recruit locally; selecting
qualified and experienced candidates for local job
opportunities and providing recruitment and training services
to the employer.

3. How This is UP Started
• Having returned home after a period abroad, became
frustrated at the “normal” recruitment channels and a lack of
more specialised support and advice available.
• Recognised the need for a model that offers skilled
unemployed the best chance for re-engagement to working
life with maximum dignity and personalisation.

4. What we do
Career Development Hiring Solutions Recruitment Training
New You-Matching your Matching clients skills to Training courses are
skill-set to the reality of the needs of the job delivered to Human
the marketplace. market. Resource departments,
management or business
Brand You-Positioning Candidate sourcing, owners on the
yourself for the bigger screening and techniques used to
picture. CV preparation. interviewing. effectively source, screen
and recruit best fit
The Prospector – Finding On site interviewing. candidates.
the right people to
connect with to achieve Reference checking and
your long term goals. salary negotiation.

5. Our message
• To our Career Development clients
• Personalised, dignified and confidential service that offers results
• Listening Ear
• To our Hiring partners & local business
• Matching service
• Ticking the CSR Box- their spend funds the re-integration of our
career development clients back into the workforce
• Social ROI

6. This is UP Model
Career Hiring Recruitment
Development Solutions Training
• Fee paying • Recruitment • Master-
clients services to classes
• Subsidised industry • On site
clients training

7. Pilot Programme
• Established over a period of 6 months
• Created a partnership model with Department of Social
Protection
• Funding stream was 50% government and 50% private funding
topped up from private career development and hiring
services with cost of services capped.
• Worked exclusively with those on the Live Register
• Referral source.

8. Activation Pilot Statistics
• A total sample 151 people actively engaged in our pilot service
over a 7 month period.
• 107 were accessing social welfare payments or were unable to
afford private fees (84%)
• 21 were subsidised coaching clients in full time
(underemployment) employment (16%) claiming social welfare
• 23 of those were participating in FÁS Programmes nearing
completion

9. Range of Services
• New You- more holistic and 360 degree approach
• Brand You- all aspects of their CV, CV Brochure, Cover
Letters, LinkedIn & Social media
• Position You- Interview skills coaching
• The Prospector- Activation support services
• Recruitment matching service

10. Hiring Partners

11. Activation Pilot Results
• 13% signed off Social Welfare
• 12 of these people secured permanent positions (9%)
• A further 5 people secured casual work or contract work (4%)
• A further 3 people (made redundant) gained employment
before signing on with DSP (2%)
• 8 of the 21 underemployed secured better roles potentially
avoiding further DSP intervention (38%)
• Within 1 month of availing of our services 20people out of
128 secured first job interviews (16%)

12. Client Feedback
• “This is UP has a very professional and unique way of working, they instil
confidence in people and have a great network of employers. I would
recommend employers and those seeking work to liaise through their business”
Audrey Dowling
• “I used This is UP to help me with my CV and job search. The individual attention
and guidance and ongoing support I received was just what I needed to focus my
job search. The advice I received was invaluable and they were always there for
me to bounce ideas off . They helped me close in on and eventually succeed in
obtaining a job offer .I am very grateful for their time and expertise in this area
which she put to good use on my behalf. Money very well spent.” John Kingston
• Everyone is treated as an individual and advised accordingly when they engage
with This is UP. They have been instrumental in advising me and directing me in
the right direction with an extremely positive outcome. The company and staff
are a necessity in the current climate. They are respected and thought highly of
in their field which is why the concept of the business is successful. Hilary Rowe

13. Challenges
• Life after the Pilot Programme
• Engagement with government and Department of Social
Protection and where we are to date
• Keeping the sustainable model sustainable

14. Where to from here?
• Career Development Services
• Roll out to the County and beyond
• New subsidised services- Career Boot-camps
• Hiring Solutions & Recruitment Training
• Engaging with more employers to reinforce the CSR message
• Dunhill Education Centre

15. The Future for This is UP
• A scalable model that can be applied to all social welfare
offices with Ireland
• We will become a credible model of excellence with potential
employers looking to recruit skilled unemployed and
underemployed.
• This is UP wants to change the landscape for both employers
and job seekers, by Unlocking Potential and building futures.

16. Business Supporting
Social Enterprise
benefits everybody.
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17. This is UP
• Where 35 Patrick Street, Waterford
• T: 051 844546
• E: ask@thisisup.com
• W: www.thisisup.com
• f: www.facebook.com/thisisup
• t: www.twitter.com/thisisup1