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Employer Standards

Information taken from CEC: Employer Standards: Shaping your future workforce

The Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) is the government-funded organisation supporting careers education across England. They provide a wide range of resources and guidance for educators, families, and employers to help young people succeed in their future pathways.

One of the valuable tools developed by the CEC is the Employer Standards, designed to help businesses understand and improve their engagement with education. If you’d like to learn more about these standards or need support in completing them, we’d be more than happy to help.

Businesses today are facing challenges when it comes to recruiting people with the skills they need:

  • How do I build a strong talent pipeline?

    How do I increase diversity in my workforce? How do I best deliver against our ESG or social value commitments?

     

Effective engagement with the education sector through our Employer Standards will help you open new pathways and opportunities in your sector for young people.

Join over 850 employers who have already used our framework to identify and plan your work with schools, special schools, and colleges, and align this with your business objectives.

If you would to see where you are performing against careers education outreach. The CEC can provide a powerful insightful analysis to help you learn, improve, prioritise and compare your results with industry leaders. This can be accessed through a free 25-minute assessment.