FUTURE TALENTED Spring Term 2019 - Issue 2 | Page 4

CONTENTS  Routes into Employability 12  Implementing the Gatsby Benchmarks The Careers & Enterprise Company highlights schools’ progress 16 20  things we learned at Future Talent LIVE 5 Key takeaways from our inaugural event for educators and employers  Defining and refining employability skills Barclays LifeSkills surveyed educators and employers around work readiness 23 Practical steps to building an effective  Create a sustainable careers strategy careers strategy in your school 26  6 principles for teaching essential skills The Skills Builder Partnership’s guidance on teaching young people employability skills work 30  Perfecting the art of the impossible Dynamo’s journey to career success 32  Finding your way into the media Insights on pathways into the creative sector 34  Routes into work at E.ON Examples of the energy firm’s pathways into employment esource: Barclays LifeSkills  38  R quick-fire careers activity Help students to have careers conversations EDITORIAL Ewen Haldane // Head of Innovation Sarah Wild // Associate Editor Karam Filfilan // Acting Editor Tom Ritchie // Multimedia Editor DESIGN Graeme Sapsed // Head of Design ADVERTISING Lisa Fawdry // Head of Events Kate Perrins // Head of Community Management Debbie Smith // Head of Partnerships Claire Harvey // Employer Partnerships Lead Jim Carrick-Birtwell // Chief Executive Officer [email protected] © 2019 FutureTalentLIVE.COM. All material published by FutureTalentLIVE.COM is copyright and remains the property of the publishers. No material may be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers. The publishers do not necessarily agree with the views expressed by contributors, nor do they accept responsibility for any errors of interpretation in the subject matter of this publication.