Who we work with
What we produce needs to be well-informed and of high quality. Our resources need to align with careers frameworks wherever you are in the UK, and help you do your job.
We partner with organisations like The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC), Career Development Institute, Gatsby and The Skills Builder Partnership.
All our activities highlight the essential skills young people need to succeed in education and in their future career. These include problem solving and team work, listening and creativity.
We also work with Unifrog so you’ll find some of our content available there.
Careers campaigns
We support National Careers Week and Green Careers Week and you’ll see our engineering and tech careers content across British Science Week and National Apprenticeships Week too.
We’re the team behind Tomorrow’s Engineers Week. This awareness week takes place every November, showcasing amazing professionals and diverse engineering and tech careers.
We’re also a strategic partner in This is Engineering – a campaign to bring engineering to life for young people.
Careers Working Group
Our careers resources are created by our Careers Working Group. STEM Learning, UCL Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering all have representatives on that group.
There's also a teacher and representatives from Institute of Physics, BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Careers frameworks
We use careers frameworks to guide our work so what we do aligns with the latest thinking and the context you’re working in. These include the CDI framework, the Curriculum for Wales framework, DYW Scotland and Skills Builder.
We use Gatsby benchmarks to give you an idea of the careers elements of featured activities. So, for example, you know whether a workshop is going to provide encounters with employers and employees or will link curriculum learning to careers.
We make the link between the curriculum and future careers We give classroom learning context and help young people see what people do in real jobs
We provide opportunities for young people to meet and hear from people working in STEM careers. They find out their interests, career path and any barriers they’ve overcome to get there
We showcase a diverse range of professionals in our case studies so young people can find someone they relate to
We present all engineering and technology career pathways We want young people to be aware of opportunities and to explore different possibilities
We draw on labour market information and highlight a wide range of real-world STEM careers and possible future jobs. We want young people to understand the range of opportunities available to them
We encourage young people to think about what they have learnt, the skills they have developed and how they might use them in a career