To your business
By getting involved you will be:
- Contributing to the development of future workforce
- Improving key skills for employability
- Contributing to raising the local skills base
- Raising your company’s profile in the community
- Providing a much needed link between schools and local business
- Promoting a positive attitude to business and work
- Providing current business skills and practices
- Influencing schools and colleges with regard to future skills (14-19 Agenda)
- Attracting young people into sectors of which they previously had little or no knowledge
- Showcasing your company by attending events
- Helping to mould the workforce of the future
- Fulfilling Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) policies
To your staff
- Staff development
- Opportunity to review their own role and procedures
- Motivation
- Achievement
To the student
You and your staff could be helping to develop the student’s:
- Self-reliance skills
- Team working skills
- Oral communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Business acumen
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem solving
- Organisational and planning skills
- Specific occupational skills
- Confidence
plus giving them an insight into:
- Working practices
- Working in an adult environment
- Possible career path