The Mission

We have completed an audit of topics that we would really benefit from your employer support.

We are interested in the problems and challenges you are faced with day to day in your profession, so that we can link those challenges to the topics that we teach in our lessons. This, in return, better informs pupil career choices and provides increased motivation within subjects.

A job is a problem you are paid to solve

The problems which we are skilled at solving and that we practice routinely, ultimately, make sound career choices. The more complex that problem is, the better the opportunity and career progression! For us to find meaningful work, the challenge is to link those problem solving abilities to opportunities and employers that are prepaid to pay you to solve those exact problems .

If we can link these day to day problems which you solve daily, as an employer, with the topics the children are learning, then real career connections can be made and sound choices can be made. Too often careers are chosen through an aspirational lens, we covet the lifestyle and rewards of a particular career, only to be left uninspired, once we start, by the day to day problems that the job requires. We may have liked the benefits of that particular role, but not the actual role itself.

This topic spreadsheet contains a range of topics that have been submitted by our teachers as areas they would welcome employer engagement with. We would appreciate real-life working examples of how these topics are used in your industry and invite you into the classroom and challenge you to emphatically answer the "what's the point in this? " question that pupils often ask. We don't ask you to teach the lesson, just provide topic context, a few examples and promote your industry. You can sign up to help us here.

Why are we doing this

Take a look at the National Skills Shortages listed on the Visabureau website. Each of the job roles listed on this website are employment skills urgently required in the U.K .

These are the roles that the U.K are desperate to fill and our shared challenge as educators and employers is to direct our young people towards these industries. Our economy requires thriving industries, but industries can only deliver growth if there are sufficient skills in the market to meet productivity demands. We need our children to be choosing growth sector opportunities and for this to happen we urge employers to actively engage within education.

Ask yourself...

As an employer, what is your average workforce age? What is your replacement workforce strategy? How stable is your workforce over the next 10-15 years? Do you find it difficult to recruit qualified staff? How do you recruit apprentices? If any on these questions are on your lips as an employer, then you need our help as much as we need yours.

Working together with schools is now much more than simply meeting corporate social responsibilities, you need our children to develop the skills required to solve your industry challenges.

here is how you help:

1. Look through the topic requests provided by teachers in this spreadsheet.
2. Choose a topic and complete your submission of interest here.
3. Following your submission of interest you can expect a welcome email/phone call within a week from our Senior Careers Leader.
4. Once a topic is agreed you will be introduced to the subject teacher by email to arrange a convenient time to conduct a phone call.
5. A phone call will take place between teacher and employer to agree a mutually convenient date to visit the lesson, expectations/objectives will be discussed and a date agreed.
6. You visit the class and inspire a future generation of learners!