What Works Sifting the Exceptional From The...

What Works – Sifting the Exceptional From The Ordinary

Paul Warner Director of Employment and Skills

AELP pwarner@aelp.org.uk

What Works – Sifting the Exceptional From The Ordinary

Samantha Sparrow Innovation Manager

vInspired Samantha.Sparrow@vinspired.com

What’s really helping with

job search?

• 85% think it’s who you know

• 73% think good work experience

plays a part

• 62% would volunteer

• 41% would set up a business!

vInspired Talent

• 99% of participants rated the overall impact of

the programme on them as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’.

• 90% of participants progressed into education

employment and training

• Volunteers agreed with the statement ‘I have the

skills I need to do the job I want to do’ rose from

33% to 88% during their placement.

vInspired Cashpoint

• 42% Award Holders thought that doing the

Cashpoint project would help them get a new

job

• 82% of Award Holders said they had

developed their networks

• 94% of Award Holders had developed their

planning skills

Task Squad

• A mobile platform connecting young people,

possessing proven volunteering experience,

with paid ‘micro-work’ opportunities.

• Helps to actualise that experience and the

skills they have gained through volunteering

into paid employment

• Since Jan 2014, 2 young people have been

taken on into permanent employment

What Works – Sifting the Exceptional From The Ordinary

James Swift, Enterprise Partnerships Manager New College Nottingham james.swift@ncn.ac.uk

http://www.gazellecolleges.com/learning-network/learning-companies

Gazelle Learning Companies

Developing the T-Shaped Learner in the Commercial Environment

NMC

Automotive

Business and Administration

Enterprise PJEA Fda

Management

IT Services

HR

Finance

Nissan Subaru Renault

Great Wall

Commercial Support

Education Support

Education Support

Commercial Partners

Commercial Support

Service Areas

Curriculum Areas

Local SMEs

What Works – Sifting the Exceptional From The Ordinary

Joy Montgomery

HMI Ofsted

Joy.Montgomery@ofsted.gov.uk

Discussion and Questions

• Paul Warner - Director of Employment and Skills, AELP

pwarner@aelp.org.uk

• Joy Montgomery - HMI Ofsted Joy.Montgomery@ofsted.gov.uk

• James Swift - Enterprise Partnerships Manager, New College

Nottingham james.swift@ncn.ac.uk

• Samantha Sparrow - Innovation Manager, vInspired

Samantha.Sparrow@vinspired.com