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Essential Skills in Business

SSE

How can businesses support schools to develop their students’ essential skills?

Sector:

Energy

Theme:

Focus:

Primary school resources

Secondary school resources

Work experience

Excellence Mark:

Bronze
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The integration of the universal framework into our primary and secondary school resources has enhanced the value of these session plans by clearly aligning the skills with curriculum frameworks used by educators. Furthermore, incorporating the framework into our structured work experience programme has enabled both the beneficiaries and the organisation to effectively measure the impact of the programme.

Katie Stewart, Early Careers and Employability Consultant

What did SSE do on a Skills Builder Employer Programme?

Built explicit opportunities for young people to reflect on and develop their essential skills into primary and secondary school resources

To improve participants’ understanding of and confidence in the essential skills required for a role in the energy sector

Built a set of resources to support essential skill development during the “Career Ready” summer internship

To enable participants to develop their essential skills as part of their placement at SSE, and ensure mentors felt confident to support this

What was the impact?

Since 2022, 3,400 young people have had the opportunity to build their essential skills through resources provided by SSE

Significant improvement in essential skills was seen for all participants between the start and end of the Career Ready programme (analysed via Skills Builder Benchmark data)

Primary and secondary resources are both accredited at Skills Builder Impact Level 3

Excellence Standards

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How SSE achieved their Skills Builder Excellence Standards

The Skills Builder Excellence Standards set clear guidelines for best practice across a business or team.

Business or teams who achieve these indicators work towards achieving an Excellence Mark accreditation.

The Outreach Excellence Standards are outlined below.

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What could you achieve on a Skills Builder Employer Programme?

Work with us to:

  • Spot opportunities to effectively build your employees' essential skills
  • Create and implement an organisation-wide essential skills competency framework
  • Support your line managers to lead constructive professional development conversations around essential skills
  • Or something bespoke to your business
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