CPF. Employer survey - ways of engaging with career education

Business and industry, we'd like your insights

Career education can take many forms; supporting students, supporting teachers, providing workplace experience and providing expert guidance.

This survey aims to identify the many ways that business and industry engage with career education.

It forms part of the work of the Cross Party Forum discussion group on careers education. The findings from this will shape discussions on continuing to improve life chances for young people by bridging the gap between education and the world of work.

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* 1. A bit about you and your organisation. Please indicate which of these are the best fit.

Individual person

Micro business (less than 10 employees)

Small business (between 11 and 50 employees)

Large business (between 251 and 1000 employees)

Medium business (between 51 and 250 employees)

Enterprise (more than 1000 employees)

Multiple locations in the UK only

Multi-national locations

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* 2. Which sector is your business in? For example finance, retail, manufacturing.

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* 3. What is your company name? (Optional)

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* 4. Have you taken part in any career education engagement in the past?

Yes

No due to Covid 19 reasons

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* 5. Please indicate the ways in which you engage in careers education with schools

Careers talks, workshops and information sessions

Career events such as fairs

Delivering practical activities in lesson time

CV writing and interview preparation skills

Mentoring of students

Extra curricular activities, such as multi-school competitions, STEM clubs

Contributing specialist equipment or facilities, such as demos or kit boxes

Professional development for teachers, such as teacher visits to industry

Specialist technical input to lesson planning or delivering masterclasses

Designing longer courses or a series of lessons

Setting and supporting employer-led challenges

Workplace visits for young people

Job shadowing for young people

Short work experience placements

Industry placements for 16 - 19 year olds

Placements and internships for students in Higher Education

Volunteer opportunities

Contributing to national, regional or local skills planning e.g. setting standards for apprenticeships or providing labour market intelligence to inform planning for education

Acting as a governor

Acting as an enterprise adviser

Offering apprenticeships

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* 6. Please indicate any other ways in which you engage with schools in career education

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* 7. Please provide an email address that we can use should we wish to follow up any of your responses.

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* 8. Can we contact you with further information on Founders4Schools career engagement activity, and potential ways in which you could support our work?

Yes