Skills builder benchmark for organisations
Skills builder benchmark for organisations
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What benefits does it offer?
What benefits does it offer?
Discover essential skills at an individual level
The Universal Framework breaks each essential skill into development stages, and then smaller progression steps. This forms the basis for Benchmark’s skills reflection tool, where individuals can make quick and easy reflections by independently answering some simple questions
Offer targeted support
On the Admin dashboard, see summaries of individuals’ skills reflections so personalised follow up guidance and support can be provided. View collated data for groups of individuals, to understand skills strengths and gaps across your provision.
Understand your impact
You can also see progress over time to understand the impact of your programmes. This can be filtered to see the data for individuals or groups.
Who’s using it?
Who’s using it?
Individuals use it to reflect on their essential skills in everyday life and to become work-ready.
Secondary schools & colleges use it to facilitate targeted essential skills education.
Impact organisations use it to measure the impact of skills-building activities.
Employers use it as part of work placements or ongoing professional development.
How are other organisations using it?
How are other organisations using it?
Regional data gathering at Street League
Regional data gathering at Street League
Street League is the UK’s leading sport for employment charity. They are using Benchmark to understand the impact of their programmes in different geographical areas by setting up Group Admins in each region.
Schools competitions at Sheffield City Council
Schools competitions at Sheffield City Council
Sheffield City Council’s BiG Community Challenge aims to ignite social and entrepreneurial spirit through a city wide social action activity. They are using Benchmark to measure their impact in participating schools by setting up a different Group for each school.
Personal development at City Year UK
Personal development at City Year UK
City Year UK (CYUK) is a Leadership and Development programme which provides young people aged between 18 - 25 with training, opportunities and networks which will develop them as active citizens, leaders, and professionals. They are using Benchmark to support participants to understand their own essential skills whilst on work placements in schools.
Supporting apprentices at Harlequins Foundation
Supporting apprentices at Harlequins Foundation
Harlequins Foundation delivers a range of educational opportunities that meet the needs of the local population of their borough heartlands. They are using Benchmark to support essential skills development through their Apprenticeship programme, alongside the Essential Skills Academy.
COVID recovery programme at The Switch
COVID recovery programme at The Switch
The Switch’s Positive Pathways tackles the digital divide and supports young people to flourish in a post-COVID-19 world. They are using Benchmark with a specific focus on Staying Positive and Aiming High skills, to support participants to build these skills throughout the programme.
Subscription options
Subscription options
Optional integrations
Optional integrations
We understand that digital tools often work best when integrated with your existing platforms. We offer three different options:
Embed Benchmark in an iFrame
An iframe is a piece of code (HTML) that allows you to nest one browser into another.
It allows you to put Benchmark on your own site.
Users will feel like they are somewhere familiar because they won’t leave your site.
We can provide a banner and images to give some context to how Benchmark may be used in your specific organisation.
Single sign-on
Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication method that enables users to securely authenticate with multiple applications and websites by using just one set of credentials.
Users only need to remember one password.
If they are already signed in elsewhere, they don’t need to sign in again for Benchmark.
Data sharing API
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are often called web services or web APIs. They allow for data to be automatically shared between applications.
You can store, view and analyse Benchmark data in your existing data management system.
To explore these options further, please speak to a member of the Skills Builder team. Please note that these integrations can be discussed once your membership is in place.
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