Greater Essex Careers Hub
Connecting schools, colleges and employers to improve careers education across Greater Essex.
About the work
Greater Essex Careers Hub brings together schools, colleges, employers and training providers across Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock to improve the careers education young people receive. It’s part of the national network of careers hubs funded through The Careers & Enterprise Company, and it’s hosted by Southend-on-Sea City Council.
In 2024 the Hub asked Always Possible to help it promote alternative routes into work, such as apprenticeships, T Levels, placements and internships. These routes are often less familiar to young people, parents and employers than A levels and university. We designed and ran a case study programme with employers who take on apprentices, placement students and interns, and with the young people taking those routes.
Our surveys and interviews looked at what these routes do for a business, such as filling skills gaps and widening who it recruits, and what they do for the young person, such as building confidence and a sense of direction. We turned the responses into written and video case studies covering sectors including early years, health and social care, and digital, for the Hub to use in publications, at events and in its own promotion.
Alongside the case studies, we gave the Hub a picture of the common barriers and opportunities employers described, and a communications framework for engaging more businesses with apprenticeships and work-based learning.
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