Swindon and Wiltshire Business and Growth Unit’s Post

🚀 Exciting Opportunity for Swindon and Wiltshire businesses! 🚀 Are you ready to shape the workforce of tomorrow and invest in the future of our economy? We're calling on local businesses to join us in a pivotal initiative: providing work experience placements for UK school pupils. 🌟 Why This Matters: Skill Development: Help students gain the real-world skills essential for the workplace. Career Exploration: Open up new career paths for young minds, guiding them towards a fulfilling future. Networking: Build meaningful connections that foster future talent. Innovation: Benefit from fresh perspectives and ideas in your business. CSR & Economic Growth: Demonstrate your commitment to the community and contribute to our region's prosperity. This is not just an investment in the workforce of tomorrow; it's a direct contribution to the vitality of our local economy and a chance to enhance your business’s innovation and diversity. We’re making it easy to get involved. Start by taking our quick, 3-minute questionnaire to express your interest and learn how you can make a tangible difference. 📝https://ow.ly/J2Zi50QVOkY Together, we can create a dynamic, skilled, and future-ready workforce. Let’s make Swindon and Wiltshire a beacon of innovation and collaboration in nurturing young talent. 🔗 For more information and to join this exciting initiative, click here: https://ow.ly/xcyV50QVOkV #FutureWorkforce #SkillDevelopment #SMEs #WorkExperience #CareerExploration #Innovation #CSR #EconomicGrowth #Swindon #Wiltshire

Preparing students for the world of employment is imperative for a successful future workforce. If you’re a business leader and wish to help shape the future of how work experience is approached and delivered, we have a fantastic opportunity for you to get involved! Please read the post below and complete the short survey as your starting point👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

During the school holidays, we connect young Londoners hungry to learn and discover their future careers, with businesses across the city. Our pan-London reach and expertise enables us to work directly with employers who want a more inclusive workplace where all talented people can succeed. Thank you to our partners Talking Tables Ltd | B Corp, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and Wild, who not only featured in our latest Employability and Skills film but have worked with us throughout the year, supporting young Londoners in sixth form and college to build crucial soft skills and workplace knowledge, and to discover careers once thought unreachable. If you’d like to find out more about how you can partner with the Mayor’s Fund for London and help connect young Londoners with their future careers, get in touch with our Business Engagement Manager, Poonam Gill.

WorkFoundations has an upcoming Grant opportunity in January 2025. The WorkFoundations Grant Opportunity will enable social enterprises and businesses to provide tailored, paid employment placements with integrated wrap-around services for eligible job seekers with complex barriers to employment. This 2-year grant opportunity will fund paid employment pathways, specifically designed to assist eligible jobseekers who are not yet competitive in the open labour market and need additional services to enter (re-enter) the workforce. For more information visit https://lnkd.in/ghGuwGwx Workforce Australia Local Jobs is funded by the Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.

The Local London sub-region is the fastest growing part of the capital and has huge potential for inclusive growth that benefits all our boroughs’ residents. Yet, unemployment in our sub-region tracks higher than the national and London averages. Our first year Local Skills Improvement Plan progress report offers insights into ongoing initiatives and opportunities for involvement and highlights exciting changes already underway in training and education in our sub-region, including: 🌟 Responses to the LSIP by individual education and training providers. ✨ Local Skills Improvement Fund activity around green and digital projects. ⭐ Chamber of Commerce collaboration. Anyone invested in skill development and implementation efforts and how these support the wider economy in Local London will want to have a read and get involved in developing training that meets career needs. https://shorturl.at/htiZq London Borough of Barking and Dagenham London Borough of Bexley London Borough of Bromley Enfield Council Royal Borough of Greenwich London Borough of Havering Newham Council London Borough of Redbridge London Borough of Waltham Forest

Here's my 2024 LinkedIn Rewind, by Coauthor.studio: This year showed what's possible when we focus on breaking down real barriers to employment. Across Wales and West Central England, we're seeing first hand how the right support changes lives. September brought expanded responsibility as Director of Employability & Skills at Serco, allowing us to integrate employment support with skills development. Joining 200 global fellows at the Institute of Employability Professionals reinforced our evidence-based approach to employment support. Three updates that resonated this year: 1. "Delighted to be taking leadership of Serco Skills and Training Services to progress us on the next stage of our growth journey." Integration of employment and skills support to create better outcomes https://lnkd.in/ee7E_WtS 2. "Feeling proud to be accepted as a fellow of such a prestigious organisation, joining around 200 like minded people around the globe." Recognition of our practical approach to employment support https://lnkd.in/eyWEi6az 3. "Restart Scheme really is changing people's lives." Showing Minister Jo Churchill MP real program impact https://lnkd.in/eV_KsvaC The Centre for New Midlands connection keeps growing stronger. With over 1,000 Serco employees delivering services across the region, we're not just talking about local impact - we're creating it. Looking to 2025: We're expanding both employment and skills support while strengthening regional partnerships. The employment landscape keeps evolving, but our focus stays clear - helping people overcome barriers and find work that changes their lives. #employmentsupport #skillsfortheworkforce #sercoandproud

🎅❄️CHRISTMAS IS COMING❄️🎅 Give the gift of opportinity. We are fast approaching Christmas in what feels like the quickest year to date. However, with 2024 coming to a close, thoughts are turning to next year and everything we want to achieve. Dundee City Council's Employability offer is going through some major changes to best serve the local communities and businesses in Dundee. Skills gaps are a massive opportunity for us to seriously impact local communities, people and the local economy if we can do this the right way. Dundee still feels very much in a state of flux. A period of change across the board. Another labour market shift that this city has become more than accustomed to historically. But now feels the time to make Dundee a hub of activity once more. I have been fortunate enough to have some exciting discussions in the past few months with Private Sector organisations who are more than open to giving opportunity if we can figure out that skills gap. The processes have started. Will you and your company come on the journey? If you are passionate about making change in Dundee or want to hear more about our objectives, drop me a message or email. gregor.marshall@dundeecity.gov.uk Dundee Adult Employability Service Dundee City Council Dundee and Angus College Erin Johnson carol M. KILEY WEST Coast Offshore Andrew Wilson Andrew Graham Mairi McKinnon Simon Hewitt TEXO Recruitment Debra Bruce John Alexander TechIOSH John Davidson Robin Presswood Steven Rome Lynne R. Short Mark Flynn #Dundee #PositiveChange

For any peers in (former) LEPs, Local Authorities and MCAs, charged with developing a Skills and Employment Strategy, I encourage you to take a look at this post 👇 #Skills #Strategy #EconomicGrowth

🌟 Discover first hand what the Job Start scheme holds with insights from our JP Corry team members, Hannah and Marcus! Dive into the video below for an inside look and uncover the opportunities awaiting you. #JPCorry #JobStart #OpportunityAwaits #CareerGrowth

Young Londoners are ambitious, capable, and talented. But many can never see or access opportunities – and the city’s employers are missing out. That’s why we meet young people facing barriers where they feel comfortable and safe to nurture their development through positive role models, workshops, and industry insights. These opportunities build the skills and networks that springboard our young Londoners to explore careers they thought were unattainable.    In 2023, our Employability and Skills programmes supported 14,939 children and young people. Over 3,000 of those young people joined our employability programme, Access Aspiration, and accessed opportunities they might never see otherwise. Take Queren, for example, who shares her story on page nine about how we helped her change from thinking she couldn’t do certain jobs “to wanting so much more…and achieving it.”    But we know there is still so much more to do. Only 17% of professional jobs in London are taken by working class people.* Our pan-London reach and expertise enables us to work directly with employers who want a more inclusive workplace where all talented people can succeed. We provide the pipeline that enables this and ensures London grows more prosperous and inclusive for all.  Read and download our 2023 Impact Report: https://ow.ly/vaUI50S0mHM  *Source: One City, Two Worlds, Mayor’s Fund for London and Oliver Wyman, 2020.