What you need to know and do to genuinely get the long term

unemployed into sustainable employment

Recro Consulting – CESI LGA 19th January 2011

Agenda

• Introductions• Why we are where we are• Recro – the hypothesis• Let’s be realistic here….• Where we start from• Paradigm shift• The employer perspective and business case – think like

an agency• The Life You Want• Looking forward – what can you do• Case Studies

Recro – the hypothesis

• Background• LSEB stats• 20% - 30% is success?• Driven by the contract• The shift to outcome based funding• Employer cost and need • Designed to fail• Who is going to do something about it?

Einstein

“the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done

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Individuals Employers

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Sector SkillsCouncils

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UK Commissionfor employment

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National SFA

Quality Improvement

Agency

London MayorSkills andEmploymentBoard

LDA Regional SFA

Local SFAs

New Deal for Communities

Business Link

Investors in People

Jobcentre Plus& Providers

Connexions

33 LocalAuthorities

Local StrategicPartnerships

OtherTraining Providers

Specialist Colleges

Schools &6th FormColleges

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Source: LDA, September 2010

The employment and skills system is complex…

Where we start

• 3 types of business

• Sit in the problem

• Personal accountability and responsibility

• Create a paradigm shift

Paradigm shift

Source: Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The Life You Want ©

• Personal breakthrough, motivation and employment programme

• Creates a real paradigm shift in belief and behaviours

• Supplemented with coaching / mentoring programme

• Mitigates risks for employers• Ensures people are fertile to training and

committed to changing their lives• Barriers removed• Committed to a career plan of their choosing

What an employer wants

• A solution to a business issue

• Cost effective, efficient and reliable

• Need good, motivated, reliable candidates

• Career / industry awareness, employer branding / attraction

• Exactly the same as from any other agency or attraction partner

This is what it should look like

Recro Training Application Jobs Qualifications

The Life You Want

SET Solutions

Coaching and mentoring support

JCPLocal authorities

RSL'sHMP

London Employer Accord

Voluntary sectorColleges

Other

Initial screening by attracting

organisation

Interview / screening with SET / Recro to decide appropriate route

Finishing School / work placements

SET SolutionsRecro

London Employer AccordOther

SET SolutionsRecro

London Employer AccordOther

Accredited Provider -

SET SolutionsOther

Attraction Sift

Families into Work – LB Haringey

What they say

• “This has opened my eyes to what my life is really like and the changes I want to make”

• “I have learnt more in the last few hours than on all the other employment programmes I have ever done”

• “This course has re-instated my self belief and given me more confidence and self worth”

• “This programme has made me very happy and confident. People around me have noticed the energy and power in me”

Going forward

• Work Programme

• Early Intervention

• Child Poverty

• Place Based Budgeting

• Other pilots

• Deal in the business of reality!

Q&A

Contact:

john.mcdonough@recroconsulting.co.uk

Mob: 07837 663 969

www.recroconsulting.co.uk