Partnership with employers

Building strong partnerships with local employers helps to develop enterprising skills and attitudes in young people, provides experience of the world of work and enables them to place their school work in a real-world context.

Partnerships with employers provide opportunities for work experience:

• Work experience can help to ease the transition between school and adult life.
• Work experience introduces the requirements of working life, eg start times, teamwork.
• Partnerships with employers provide opportunities for young people to develop a CV.
• Partnership activities encourage independence and responsibility.
• Partnerships provide a pathway into further education, apprenticeships or work.

Preparing for employment

All learners are entitled to opportunities for developing skills for learning, life and work.

Employability is the combination of factors and processes that enable young people to progress towards employment, to stay in employment and to move on in the workplace. 

The Preparing for employment section focuses on supporting learners to enter employment with more information about:

• Vocational training
• Career education
• Skills for work.

Related resources

The PowerPoint presentation below enables trainers to take colleagues though the main points to consider when setting up a partnership. The CPD portfolio is intended to support colleagues from the education and business communities to work in partnership.