Careers in Ideas Week featured charities: National Careers Week

For Careers in Ideas Week (16-22 November 2020), we’re running a series of posts featuring relevant charities and community interest groups. Many of these were represented at a 23 September 2020 “think tank” meeting, co-hosted by the IP Federation and IP Inclusive, to discuss social mobility and access to the IP professions. They are organisations with an interest in promoting social mobility as well as, in many cases, other forms of diversity.

They’ve kindly provided information about the work each of them does and how the IP professions can get involved. Their suggestions will help you identify opportunities to give back to the community whilst also improving diversity within the IP sector. Working with and through these organisations will help ensure that the support you provide reaches the right people, in the right way.

In this post we hear from the Community Interest Company National Careers Week (NCW) about their work to improve careers education in schools and colleges. NCW have already begun helping our Careers in Ideas team to raise awareness of IP sector careers, and are very kindly providing a webinar for us on 16 November about improving your careers outreach efforts in schools.

You can access a full Careers in Ideas directory of outreach organisations here – and look out for further information about the listed organisations over the next few weeks.

What does National Careers Week do to improve social mobility and access to the professions?

National Careers Week celebrates careers education.

At NCW we recognise that the opportunities for organisations to promote their training or careers opportunities to future generations are limited; schools and colleges have little time for extended careers activities. This is why NCW is so important – we create the time and provide the opportunity for organisations to engage and inspire.

Free resources are available for careers events in schools.

Social media is flooded with posts about careers and education opportunities that young people may never have previously considered.