Employer Engagement Opportunities

Our ultimate aim is to link business with education. Whether you would like to take on an official role as an Enterprise Adviser (EA) or help with general employer engagement activities, we need your help to raise young people’s aspirations and make them aware of what your sector and role entails.

You don’t have to be an expert in Careers Advice and Guidance to be an Enterprise Adviser.EAs use their business knowledge and experience to work closely with a secondary school or college Careers Leader and be a critical friend who provides strategic support. Within the EA
role, you will be supported by a trained, full-time Enterprise Coordinator (EC) and a range of practical resources.

Cornerstone Employers

Cornerstone Employers are a leadership group of businesses invested in the successful and sustainable delivery of careers education for young people in the area. Working with their network and wider business community to ensure young people are prepared for the world of work, they also join termly local roundtable meetings with their associated Hub Lead.

Cornerstones are:

  • Experienced in engaging with education
  • Dedicated to investing time and resources
  • Committed to working with other Cornerstone Employers.
  • Willing to galvanise their business networks
  • Focused on sustainability and acts as an ambassador
  • Share best practice and are champions for social mobility

There are currently over 300 Cornerstone Employers across the country. They are made up of SMEs, large employers, government, private and not-for-profit organisations and are from a range of different sectors.

To Register your interest in supporting schools & colleges please click here

For more info & to complete Employer Standards click here

Give an Hour

There are so many ways you can support your local school or college, whether that be in person or virtually. Sharing your career journey can be powerful. Your insights, unique industry knowledge and experience can make a difference to the options a young person considers for their future career.

You could be the role model who changes a young person’s life, just by showing what is possible.

Benefits to your business

The Give an Hour campaign is a great way to give something back to your community and ignite your team at the same time. It helps give young people the skills and knowledge that they need while also potentially finding new recruits for your business.

You can make a difference to the future career choices that a young person makes.

What can you do in an hour?

It might feel like an hour is too short to have a real impact, but we know from experience that an hour can create new perspectives and inspire new ideas. You could speak to a class about your sector, play a role in a business competition, carry out a mock interview or support a CV workshop. Even these short activities make a big difference and can change a young person’s life.