Your Careers Strategy

Supported and trained by the Careers Hub and Careers & Enterprise Company, your Enterprise Adviser is an industry volunteer and advocate for the school who works closely with your Careers Leader to:

• Support the development of a strategic careers plan linked with wider school
• Provide access to their business network and help establish and develop mutually beneficial partnerships with employers to support activities such as careers talks, mock interviews, enterprise events and work experience.
• Help your school to evaluate its careers delivery, spot gaps in provision and identify the most effective activities to motivate young people and support positive outcomes.
• Provide a valuable employer perspective, assisting the school to provide opportunities for students through which they can gain skills that employers want in their employees

Careers Link Governor 

Your Careers-Link Governor is member of the governing board who takes a strategic interest in careers education and guidance and encourages employer engagement, becoming the boards specialist in this area. This is explained on page 13 of DfE’s Careers Guidance & Access for Training Providers (2021).

A Careers-Link Governor should set up regular meetings with the Careers Leader so that they can monitor careers provision and act as a link between governors and staff, regularly reporting to the board on matters such as:

• How careers guidance links to the school improvement/development plan and contributes to student learning.

• How partnerships/conversations with local businesses are progressing (e.g. regarding what skills employers are looking for, work experience opportunities, employer encounters).
• The range of education and training providers who’ve had the chance to talk to
• The impact of your school’s careers programme, and activities.