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How can employers and professionals get involved?
Become a Business Volunteer!
You are the key to making careers education meaningful.
Business volunteers are play a vital role in bringing careers education to life, ensuring advice reflects real life, and inspiring young people to think broadly.
On this page you can discover some of the ways you can help as a volunteer from offering work experience, to visiting schools or hosting visits to your place of work. Whatever capacity you choose to volunteer in, there are plenty of ways to get involved.
Sounds interesting? To help us in any of these ways, please complete our application form and we'll get back to you shortly.
Offering modern work experience
Work experience has changed and we can help you offer meaningful placements.
From 3 hours to 3 weeks, we need businesses of all shapes and sizes, across all sectors, to offer work experience for young people. Its a great way to make a real difference in shaping a young person’s career choices.
Working with us as a business volunteer
Want to help connect young people to the world of work and open up ideas for their future careers?
Join our network of over 350 brilliant volunteers from businesses of all sizes and sectors who are working locally to excite young people about a wide range of career options.
Hosting teacher visits
By hosting teacher visits for teachers you can equip them with insights from your industry so they can better support students make career choices. These visits are really valuable and we can help you set them up as a group session or on a 1:1 basis.
Host school visits
Visiting your workplace can give groups of 10-30 students from mainstream and special education settings the opportunity to explore working environments and meet with your team. We call these VIP days and our team will help make sure the day runs smoothly.
We have lots of training, events and opportunities available to enhance your understanding of careers.
We have created resources and tools to help you make the most of volunteering with us.
86% of employers say engaging with schools and colleges encourages young people to take up careers in their sector.
89% of business volunteers say that young people are more prepared for the world of work as a result of their involvement.