Employability is achievable Sam Whitaker Chief Executive of Esteem

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Employability is achievableSam WhitakerChief
Executive of Esteem
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The biggest thing for me is, that there is so
many careers out there that you and I dont even
know what they are young people need to be
willing to go out and find out about the world of
work I can guarantee most employers would love
you to do that and theyll think theyre a bit
sparky Steph McGovern (BBC Breakfast)
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Todays questions
Are employability skills as important as
academia? If so, why? If not, why not? Whose
responsibility is it to address
employability? What can be done about it?
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Setting the scene

• Opportunities for the Humber
• Growth of the renewables sector
• The Energy Estuary - global Centre of
  Excellence
• Digital sector
• 2017 City of Culture
• City Plan - City Centre, Fruit Market, Castle
  Street
• Freedom and flexibilities

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What if

• Employment needs could be met locally?
• Education and training provision met demand?
• Funding was aligned to maximise local impact?
• Schools and business worked as partners?
• Students had access to the latest career
  information?

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Skills Commission

• 12 Humber-wide members
• 3 LEP staff members
• 68 Organisations gave evidence
• June 12 to June 13
• Lifting the Lid Report
• Employment Skills Board

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Skills Commission

• Key issues for the Humber region
• Much lower population of highly skilled residents
• Lowest proportion regionally of highly skilled
  residents
• Achieving Level 4 and above is improving
• By 2020, degree level qualified increases
  significantly

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Skills Commission

• Key issues for the Humber region
• By 2020, Level 3 and below fall significantly
• Jobs with no qualification fall dramatically
• This churn and replacement will affect all
  sectors

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Skills Commission - Focus

• Leadership and governance
• Skills shortages
• CEIAG and LMI
• Apprenticeships
• Employability skills
• Unemployment
• Up-skilling the workforce
• Enterprise

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Employment Skills Strategy

• Our ambition is that by 2020, the Humber will
  have a skills system that is better aligned with
  the current and future needs of our economy

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Strategic Outcomes

• Raise employer commitment and investment in
  skills
• Inclusive, LEP-wide stakeholder engagement
• Demand-led provision of education, training and
  skills
• Improved LMI and CEIAG

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Strategic Outcomes

• Support - for seeking employment and enterprise
• Maximise the use of funding - capital and revenue
• Increased aspiration

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Interventions

• 11 Interventions driven by the ES Board
• Intervention 1 CEIAG and LMI
• Intervention 2 Springboard Programme
• Intervention 6 Apprenticeships
• Intervention 7 Employability Skills
• Intervention 10 Humber Energy Campus

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Skills Pledges

• Invest in workforce skills
• Mentor an entrepreneur
• Offer work placements
• Offer and apprenticeship
• Employ a local graduate
• Support development of employability skills

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What are Employability Skills?
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Rated by dissatisfaction

1. Business Customer Awareness
2. Self-management
3. Problem solving
4. Communication Literacy
5. Application of numeracy skills
6. Team working
7. Application of IT skills

• Exhibit 17 Employer satisfaction with
  school/college leavers employability skills ()
• CBI Education Skills Survey 2011

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The Employability Charter
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Employability Charter

• Anything goes!
• Who Wants to be a GCSE Champion event
• Maths lessons from a business perspective
• Work experience
• Mock interviews

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Employability Charter

• National Careers Week
• Internships
• Mentoring
• Fix Up Your Future event

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Employability Charter

• Benefits
• Portfolio of good practice available for all
• Downloadable content for curriculum use
• Business to school to school and back to business
  connections
• Recycle best practice while continually improving
• Its also fun!

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What Can I do?

• Sign up to the Skills Pledges
• Sign up to the Employability Charter
• Be innovative
• Be bold, take risks
• Share an ambition for excellence
• Embrace partnership

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Todays questions
Are employability skills as important as
academia? If so, why? If not, why not? Whose
responsibility is it to address
employability? What can be done about it?