Are you keen to recruit work-ready young people? Would you like to diversify your workforce? Do you have CSR objectives to maximise your social impact in local communities and enable your employees to volunteer?
In May 2025, the Government’s Work Experience Guarantee set out their ambition that every young person is able to access two weeks’ worth of high-quality, multiple workplace experiences. This does NOT mean hosting students for 10 days in your business. It means that over a student’s journey through secondary education they experience 50-hours of workplace experiences. These opportunities should go beyond the horizons of their immediate friends and family to broaden aspirations and build confidence. They can include employer-engagement in after-school clubs, employer-led projects and small-group visits to employers.
This model for Modern Work Experience, developed by the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC), moves away from traditional block work experience weeks to a graduated experience of workplaces that builds, to become more targeted as students get closer to leaving school.
What does your current engagement with schools and colleges look like? Do you know how you compare to your peers in your industry? Would you like an action plan for greater engagement with your future talent pipeline?
To establish the strengths and areas for improvement, you can join the 1000+ businesses who have used the FREE Employer Standards self-assessment tool to map your current educational outreach and access structured advice on how to get more involved.
Click here to take the Employer Standards self-assessment tool.
We have worked with our network of employers, schools, colleges and independent training providers to develop and fine-tune work experience activities for students throughout secondary school. These range from interactive careers events to challenge-based activities, live webinars to workplace visits. Whether you can spare a few hours, a couple of days or can support more long-term placements, there is a way for you to get involved.
Introduce what you do to a group of students. What job roles are available, what does a career path look like in your business, what’s it like to work for you, etc.
Set a project linked to your business, it can be a specific challenge you need to solve.
Benefit from the power of creative, young minds. Students will pitch their work back to you, virtually or in-person in your workplace/ in the classroom.
Keen to get involved? Please email us to find out more about Project Pitch.
Please email us for more information.
