Working together to help young women achieve their potential

www.inspiringwomencampaign.org

Why is it so important?

Our vision: to ensure that every school and college has an effective partnership with employers to provide its young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential and so to secure the UK's future prosperity.

Our Partnerships Board Senior representatives of the national organisations representing schools and colleges;

...and employers;

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Key findings:

• 95% of young people would like employers to be

more involved in providing advice and guidance about careers and jobs

• 42% of young people had no contact with employers at all

• Young people who had been in contact with four or more employers were nearly twice as likely to believe that they had a good idea of the knowledge and skills needed for the jobs they wanted to do

• 90% of employers agreed they should take a role in helping to provide careers advice related activities to young people

What are the campaign’s objectives?

• Give girls and young women the opportunity to hear from women in a diverse range of jobs

• Support schools to run events to challenge gendered stereotypes about the world of work

• Reach out to 250,000 girls/young women across the

country

• Have 20,000 female volunteers signed up to the Inspiring the Future service

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"She has volunteered to help us once a month which is great news. She’s so far carried out one session and is due to do another this Friday, 14th February. The applicants really enjoyed the session and it was great to have help from such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteer. In fact, 2 out of the 6 applicants who attended the session on 17th January, have since secured an Apprenticeship position which is brilliant". Northampton College

Benefits for Schools and Colleges

• Over 13,500 diverse volunteers waiting for teachers to invite them to talk to their pupils about their jobs, and the routes they took to get there, or even CV and interview insights at the click of a button

How does it work

• When teaching staff log on to the system, they get a list of all those people registered in their area and it’s a simple process to send a message through the system to get in touch

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Impact

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9humxBvwO1Q

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEM5g1utkx0

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZxAQcXfqk0&index=41&list=PL1uhJVf-tUlgCfJf08oZEON0fH4TFDNoL

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/edu_employers/sets

• Examples of job titles on Inspiring Women

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Adventure Journalist

Aerospace Engineer

Airline Captain Architect Assistant Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Assistant Private Secretary to Leader of the House of Lords

Barrister Bridge Designer

Carpenter

Chief Executive

Consultant Neurosurgeon

Consulting Psychiatrist in Addictions

Demolition Consultant

Dentist Detective Sergeant Diplomatic Service Officer

Director of Political & Social Research

Director of Strategy & Public Relations

Economist Editor Electrical Engineer

Entrepreneur Executive Chef Executive Creative Director

Film Publicity Manager

Freelance Wildlife & Documentary Cameraman

GP

Head of Digital Communications

Hydrogeologist Illustrator Investment Banker

Manufacturing Manager

Materials Engineer Member of Parliament

Ocean Rower Osteopath

Photographer Political Correspondent

Principle Design Engineer

Publisher Research Scientist Senior Broadcast Journalist

Solicitor Sound Recordist

Speech and Language Therapist

Technical Evangelist

Technologist Travel Writer Vice President Administration Assistant

Advance Apprentice Apprentice Engineer

Apprentice IT Consultant

Cabin Crew

Court Clerk Customer Advisor Firefighter Intern Junior Software Developer

Nursing Student PA Prison Officer Secretary

Staff Nurse Store Trainer Student Paramedic

Technician Apprentice

Ticket Clerk Trainee Manager Catering Manager

Contractor Systems Engineer

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Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies signed up

What can I do? • Sign up to www.inspiringwomencampaign.org and volunteer

• Ask your colleagues, employees and networks to sign up

• Spread the good news – when you are invited to an event let

us know, send us pictures, and we’ll share the story

• Follow the Inspiring Women blog www.itfinspiringwomen.wordpress.com

• Tell people about us on Facebook, Twitter and blogs

@edu_employers facebook.com/inspiringthefuture

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