Addressing future skills shortages through careers education
Many businesses are struggling to recruit people with the right skills.
Working with schools, special schools and colleges is a proven way of developing young people’s skills for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
And that why the IoD is working with The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) to help your business better engage with schools and colleges to strengthen your talent pipelines and support young people to find their best next step.
This joint webinar will share insights from a range of businesses on how best to engage with careers education outreach, using data from over 800 businesses that have completed their Employer Standards for Careers Education tool, and over 230k students across the country through their Future Skills Questionnaire.
Speakers
Carolyn Jay - community and place manager, Ringway
Carolyn Jay is the community and place manager for Ringway Infrastructure Services, a term maintenance highways contractor. She delivers social value on the £100m p.a. Surrey contract, where she is chair of the Cornerstone Employer Group. Carolyn draws on her experience in international development, local government, and Citizens Advice to challenge existing ways of thinking, break down barriers to engagement and create new opportunities to bring talent and potential into highways.
Jarmila Yu, IoD Surrey Branch Chair
Founder and MD of YUnique Marketing Ltd, Jarmila Yu, is a globally ranked Top100 CMO, a Chartered Marketer, and a Top50 Business Advisor. A multi award-winning businesswoman, Jarmila is passionate about forging strong links between business and education, and is a champion for marketing excellence to drive economic growth.
Having spent 25 years building her career in companies ranging from start-ups to some of the world’s largest brands, she then established her marketing consultancy in 2016 making it her mission to provide the CMO Advantage to support ambitious SMEs to achieve dramatic results and growth. She has since guided multiple companies to grow from start up to scale up and scale up to major player in their segment.
Jarmila proudly serves as Chairman of the Surrey Branch of the IoD, the International Advisory Board at the School of Business & Management at Royal Holloway University of London and the Talent Committee at the DMA.
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