In April we were invited by the Hunter Foundation to bring our services to Scotland to help them close their skills gap so that their scaleup companies could get enough home-grown talent in the future...

1. KEY STAKEHOLDER BRIEFING (SCOTLAND)
APRIL 2017

2. “Tinker Tailor Soldier or Spy”

3. THERE IS A MAJOR
SKILLS GAP
AMONGST UK'S
YOUNG PEOPLE
The Problem

4. 100 %
Net New Jobs created in Europe in the past 5 years were from companies less than 5 years old….
THE PACE OF CHANGE IN OUR ECONOMIES IS HIGH AND
INCREASING

7. #scaleu

8. I would be able to grow
my company faster if
applicants had the skills
needed to meet my
customer demand.
82%OF 163 SCALE-UPS
AGREE
79%OF 442 CEOs
AGREE

9. 82%
“I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants
had the skills needed to meet
my customer demand”

10. THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….
#scaleu

11. THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….
#scaleu

14. Figure 4. The value of Apps in helping learning (students)
(Longfield iPad Research, 2012)
Figure 5. The value of Apps in helping teaching (staff)
(Longfield iPad research, 2012)
Teacher ProductivityLearner Attainment

16. Over the next decade, more than one billion
young people will enter the global labour market
and only 40% will be in jobs that currently exist.
-The Economist January 2016

18. UNLEASHING THE
POWER OF THE
BUSINESS
COMMUNITY INTO
THE CLASSROOM
Student Employer Encounters

19. OUR GOALS
➤ improve young people’s ability to make
informed career decisions and improve
their optimism about the future;
➤ help young people to increase their
attainment and be more likely to enrol in
post-secondary education;
➤ increase the employability of young
people; and
➤ increase young people’s earnings after
they complete their schooling
➤ By getting teachers to 4 student-employer
encounters per annum
➤ By getting students 140 hours of work
experience

20. Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab
Successful Entrepreneurs travel to schools to speak with students

21. Lucinda Bruce Gardyne from Genius Foods
Inspired by her child’s allergy to
gluten and her passion for
chemistry, Lucinda set about
creating a loaf so her eight year
old son Robin, who had a wheat
allergy, could dip bread soldiers
in his boiled eggs at breakfast.

22. Workfinder.com
“The speakers told us
stories about students of our
age who had created
businesses and so I thought
if they can do it, I could too.
Maitri
Panchal

23. TIMING OF THE INTERVENTION IS KEY
➤ The timing of the intervention that will
provide inspiration along with the soft and
hard skills that will help a young person
become employable is critical from a
financial perspective.
➤ As the figure here highlights, the cost of
training a young person increases
exponentially with age: at age 14, the cost
is less than £ 1, at age 18 it is less than
£1000 but at age 25, it jumps to £10,000.

24. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERSFounders4Schools enables teachers to access
local business leaders to schedule the following
encounters:
➤ Role model events
➤ Group or speed mentoring
➤ Mock interviews
➤ Career Fairs
➤ Keynote career speeches
➤ Workplace visits
➤ Plus much more
To date, Founders4Schools has facilitated over
155,000 student-employer encounters for
60,000 students with the help of more than
1,000 business leaders who talked to students
about jobs they might hold or create in the
future.

25. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERS

26. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERS

27. DELIVERING MEANINGFUL
ENCOUNTERS

28. UCL Academy, North West London
(click on the images to see an example of each series of events)
Case Studies
●Impact:
○Sharpened students understanding of future careers.
○Showed intricate links between the Science, Maths, Technology and Engineering areas.
○Showed students how interesting and fun STEM can be.

29. Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador
Brentford School for Girls, West London
I was excited by how well it went and
how positive the reactions were.
Several experienced members of
staff at our school that often organise
public speaking events said they had
never seen an event so amazing!
It was extremely impactful, and the
variety and caliber of people took our
breath away.
Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador heard about Founders4schools from a colleague and created an event for
his economics students. Immediately after the event, the school’s assistant headteacher asked him how this was organised
and booked one more event for the beginning of the next academic year, for their Year 10 students. She then repeated this
for their next cohort.
Case Studies

30. GOOD CAREER
GUIDANCE IS
CRITICAL IF YOUNG
PEOPLE ARE TO
RAISE THEIR
ASPIRATIONS AND
CAPITALISE ON THE
OPPORTUNITIES
AVAILABLE TO THEM.
The Research

31. THE GATSBY
BENCHMARKS
➤ A stable careers programme
➤ Learning from career and labour market informa
➤ Addressing the needs of each pupil
➤ Linking curriculum learning to careers
➤ Encounters with employers and employees
➤ Experiences of workplaces
➤ Encounters with further and higher education
➤ Personal guidance

32. UP-SKILL WITH
SCALE UPS TO
SOLVE THE SKILLS
GAP
Guidance to teachers…..

33. #scaleup @scaleupinst scaleupinstitute.org.uk
SCALEUPS AT A LOCAL LEVEL : SCOTLAND

35. Turnover Growth (GBP) vs Growth Rate (%)

39. UP-SKILL WITH
SCALE UPS TO
SOLVE THE SKILLS
GAP
Work Experience Placements

40. “I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants
had the skills needed to meet
my customer demand”

41. 82%
“I would be able to grow my
company faster if applicants
had the skills needed to meet
my customer demand”

42. Workfinder
Get experience at
Britain’s best companies
in a few taps.

43. USING WORKFINDER
STUDENTS CAN:
➤ Discover: Browse and discover local fast
growing companies - spark your
imagination
➤ Filter: Refine searches by your favourite
subjects - find companies that excite you
➤ Apply: Apply for roles using template
cover letters - it’s quick and easy
➤ Contact: Apply for positions directly and
take an active approach
➤ Experience: Gain valuable experience
and get ahead of the crowd

44. Every secondary school and college
should have up-to-date, user-friendly
labour market intelligence/information
(LMI) readily accessible.

45. Every young person could have at least 100
hours experience of the world of work, in
some form, by the time they reach the age of
18

46. Workfinder.com
We know how important closing
the attainment gap is to our long-
term economic prosperity, so it’s
fantastic that apps like Workfinder
give businesses a new and
innovative way to connect with
students all across the UK
Well done for coming up with such
a pioneering idea”.
Paul Drechsler, CBI President

47. Workfinder.com
“Our members regularly tell us that
they struggle to find young adults
who are properly equipped for the
workplace”
“today’s launch of Workfinder
marks a huge step forward in
tackling this issue. Not only does it
provide young people with great
opportunities, it does so in the
digital space – the natural domain
of those who will excel in the high-
tech, high-skilled workplaces of the
future.”
Mike Cherry
Federation of Small Businesses

48. UP-SKILL WITH
SCALE UPS TO
SOLVE THE SKILLS
GAP
Dashboards for Local
Authorities…

49. #scaleuTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu

50. #scaleuTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu

51. #scaleuTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu

52. #scaleuTHE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu

53. Workfinder.comWorkfinder.com
Key takeaway Workfinder is closing the skills
gap and empowering students,
whatever their background
Creating a pipeline of post-
brexit talent for our scaleups….

54. EMPLOYABILITY TRAINING
SEMINARS
25 APRIL 12:30
23 MAY 12:30
27 JUNE 12:300

56. https://www.founders4schools.org.uk/hunter-foundation
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