Time to Connect – Work Experience Excellence

Join us for “Time to Connect – Work Experience Excellence“! This exclusive online event offers a unique opportunity to glean insights from our expert team on effectively implementing work experience with your team, students, and employers. Gain invaluable knowledge on leveraging our cutting-edge Connect platform to facilitate meaningful work experiences, adeptly manage risks, and foster robust employer engagement.

Don’t let this chance to elevate your skills and connect with fellow professionals slip away. Register now and embark on the journey toward excellence in your programme!

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Student Work Experience Launch Guide

Welcome, amazing students!

We hope you’re ready for an incredible journey because something exciting is coming your way. Welcome to the launch of your Work Experience program!

Over the next year, you’re going to embark on a unique adventure that goes beyond the classroom. This isn’t just about textbooks and tests – it’s about diving into the real world, exploring your passions, and gaining hands-on experience that will shape your future. We know each one of you is bursting with potential, dreams, and talents waiting to be unleashed.

The Work Experience program is here to help you discover and develop those talents, giving you a taste of what the future could hold. Throughout this program, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with professionals who’ve been where you are now. They’re here to guide you, share their experiences, and inspire you to dream big. Get ready to explore different career paths, ask questions, and build connections that could last a lifetime.

This isn’t just about what you’ll learn; it’s about who you’ll become. You’ll gain valuable skills, develop a deeper understanding of your interests, and, most importantly, discover more about yourself.

So, are you ready to dive in? The adventure begins now! Get ready to learn, grow, and make memories that will last a lifetime. Welcome to the Work Experience program – your ticket to a world of possibilities!

Employer Work Experience Launch Video

Hello, forward-thinking employers!

We are thrilled to invite you to be part of something truly impactful – the launch of our Work Experience program. Today, we want to share with you the extraordinary opportunity to shape the future by supporting and nurturing the incredible potential of young talent. As leaders in our community, you understand the importance of investing in the next generation. The Work Experience program is not just about providing internships; it’s about fostering an environment where young minds can thrive, learn, and contribute in meaningful ways.

By opening your doors to these budding talents, you play a crucial role in molding the workforce of tomorrow. The impact you can have on a young person’s life is immeasurable – you have the power to inspire, guide, and set them on a path to success.

Many successful professionals can trace their journey back to a meaningful work experience that shaped their aspirations and skills. Now, it’s your turn to be a catalyst for someone’s success story. Your support can be the difference between a young person merely dreaming and realizing their full potential.

The Work Experience program is more than a collaboration; it’s a partnership in building a brighter future. By providing opportunities for these young talents, you’re contributing not just to their growth but to the growth of our entire community. So, are you ready to make a difference? Join us in this exciting journey as we create pathways for young talents to thrive and contribute to a world that values innovation, diversity, and collaboration.

Welcome to the Work Experience program – where the future starts today. Let’s build success together!

Essential Skills Tracker

Skills Builder Partnership are launching the inaugural Essential Skills Tracker
The Skills Builder Partnership has launched its inaugural Essential Skills Tracker. The Tracker gives a vivid picture of how individuals build their essential skills across their lives, drawing on new research developed with YouGov.

The research shows for the first time at a national level that essential skills are associated with increased wellbeing, earnings, and a lower probability of being out of education or work, and are highly valued by the UK public. It also reveals, however, that these skills are not distributed equitably in the UK, and opportunities to build them are limited.

The research furthermore identifies a skills trap, wherein disadvantage and early lack of opportunity to build essential skills lead to lower skill levels, lower income, lower life satisfaction, and limited future opportunities to build these skills. The report suggests that to address these issues, the UK needs to scale the volume of high-quality opportunities to build essential skills in education, through impact interventions, and in employment.

To learn more and read the report, head over to skillbuilder/tracker-2022.

CONNECT Newsletter 14.01.2022

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View this email in your browser Greetings from the CONNECT Team, we hope you have had a productive week.  This week is all about: CONNECT Development“What’s New?” New User Guide Section.  Educational Technology Insights  We’ve been listed as one of the Top five Ed Tech Organisations in the U.K Changing Education Podcast S2. Episode 1 – Work Experience! CONNECT Refresher Webinar –  missed this week’s webinars? CONNECT® “Bitesize CPD Session” – Web & Mobile App Refresher CONNECT Education & Training CONNECT® “Health Check”. Don’t forget to access our Website, Linkedin page, and YouTube channel for all the up-to-date content and resources.  CONNECT Development! “Whats new this week?” User Guide Section. We have incorporated all our CONNECT Web and Mobile App education and training video resources into the knowledge base within your CONNECT navigation panel. The user guide section has been separated into key functionality sections to make it easy for staff to locate the user guides specific to their role or need (Screenshot below).  Access the Full Article Here Work Experience – Season 2 Episode 1 – January 12th, 2022 Do you remember your work experience job? In this first episode of the season, 2 Company Directors and Co-Founder Matthew Hodgkinson and Stephen Hackney discuss all things work experience and the value employers bring to young people through work experience opportunities. this link is to listen to the podcast. Want to hear more from our directors? click this link to enter our company podcast library.   CONNECT Bite-Size CPD Session CONNECT Health Check! “How are you getting on?” Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? We are struggling to implement our work placement and careers programmes post covid-19?  Our employer engagement strategy is difficult to track?  We don’t advertise placement opportunities to students?  Our Health & Safety Risk Management is taking too much time?  It’s difficult to implement student self-assessment?  We struggle to track all placement attendance?  We struggle to manage & track employer appraisals?  We struggle to manage & track student feedback?  We are still using spreadsheets for reporting?  It’s difficult to log careers and work-related learning activities?  I don’t understand all the functionality available to us to manage our programmes?  As a Changing Education CONNECT client your answers should have been disagree, if you answered agree, fear not we are here to help! We will be offering all our clients a Health Check Consultancy Session which you can be used to ensure: CONNECT has been implemented correctly. Staff fully understand all functionality available to them to complete their role effectively. As part of an external quality assurance audit to ensure your programmes are high quality and compliant with Ofsted / Gatsby Agenda. Sign your team up below. Sign up here

CONNECT Heath Check CPD Session.

Stephen Hackney Director / Co-founder s.hackney@changingeducation.co.uk

CONNECT Newsletter 26.11.2021

Stephen Hackney Director / Co-founder s.hackney@changingeducation.co.uk

CONNECT Newsletter 12.11.2021

Greetings from the CONNECT Team, we hope you have had a productive week.  This week is all about:  Development Headlines Skills Builder – Student App Assessment Access.  What is new this week? Changing Education Podcast Episode 5 – Putting Real Work Experience Back on the Curriculum! CONNECT Refresher Webinar –  missed this week’s webinars? CONNECT Refresher – Employer Engagement CRM.  CONNECT Refresher – Placement Opportunities CRM.  CONNECT Education & Training – please sign up below. Next week’s webinars are all about risk management CONNECT Refresher – Risk Management CRM.  CONNECT Refresher – Risk Management Editor Tool.  Don’t forget to access our Website, Linkedin page, and YouTube channel for all the up-to-date content and resources.  Development Headlines Skills Builder Integration: The skills builder framework has been fully integrated into CONNECT, Students can complete the self-assessment via the student access URL or via the Student App. You can access the student’s progress via the Skills Panel via the student’s home page. We are still awaiting approval from Apple and Google for the new version of the app which includes the Skills Builder Assessment. If you want your students to complete the skills builder assessment asap, then please ask them to login via a P.C. / Laptop using their unique URL which can be found on the app email invite or via the student’s home page in the summary or pathways placement section. Watch the Skills Builder training webinar to find out more by clicking this link What’s new this week? Fixed blank risk assessment document view via students’ homepage. App – Updated save button after selecting 6+ industry interests in the mobile app. Updated error message when department staff tries to log in with no assigned department. New error message when trying to delete an employer or role with a student or opportunity attached.  Updated emails so they don’t send as HTML plain text.  Updated automated email CRONS for Risk Assessment, Appraisals, and Feedback.  Question: What’s a CRON?  Answer: The cron command-line utility, also known as CRON, enables us to set up and maintain software environments to schedule jobs to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. Podcast Episode 5 – Putting Real Work Experience Back on the Curriculum. This week host Amos Madra and Company Directors & Co-Founders Matthew Hodgkinson and Stephen Hackney discuss the upcoming webinar on 30th November. The theme of the webinar is “Putting Real Work Experience Back on the Curriculum.” To listen to the podcast click this link  Reserve Your Place CONNECT® Refresher – Employer Engagement CRM (09.11.2021) CONNECT Refresher – Placement Opportunities CRM (11.11.2021) Heath and Safety Risk Management “Empower your staff to have greater control of health and safety risk management for all work placement activity. Manage and track in greater depth to enable quality assurance and compliance of all staff and employer activity.” We provide customers with the autonomy to create and edit their own risk assessment templates. These are automatically sent out to employers once a student has been placed. CONNECT allows users to create risk assessments for individual employer categories. This ensures that the risk assessment is always relevant to that sector. Our clever system keeps staff constantly updated regarding outstanding Risk Assessment figures. Reserve Your Place Reserve Your Place Stephen Hackney Director / Co-founder s.hackney@changingeducation.co.uk

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CONNECT Newsletter 05.11.2021

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View this email in your browser Greetings from the CONNECT Team.  This week is all about:  Our new weekly podcasts. New Tech Launched! Missed this week’s webinars? Next Weeks Webinars.  Education and Training Playlists. Support and Guidance.  Don’t forget to access our Website, Linkedin page, and YouTube channel for all the up-to-date content and resources.  Welcome to our podcast. We are the UK’s largest Education Business Partnership EBP. The Changing Education group delivers the best-in-class work experience and careers management services to provide the perfect placements to educational institutions. Combined with Connect, a global market-leading work placement management platform to start careers, clients benefit from a single solution for all their needs. Podcast Episode 1: Who we are and what we do? October 12th, 2021 Podcast Episode 2: Work Experience Relaunch! October 19th, 2021 Podcast Episode 3: Are we getting careers guidance wrong? October 27th, 2021 Podcast Episode 4 – Employer Engagement November 11th, 2021 Listen to the Podcast’s !!New Tech Launched!! We are excited to share with you 3 majors updates we have added to your server at no cost this week.  You may have noticed a new tab in the student home screen called Pathways Placements. Pathways progress tracker will enable you to manage, track and evaluate all key interactions during each stage of your work placement programme. Watch the Pathways Training Webinar find out more by clicking this link. You may have noticed several new Consent sections in the dashboard. Enrolment Consent – You can now log if you have secured student–parent/guardian consent for work-based learning via enrolment. Placement Consent – The consent management functionality is the simple solution that will enable you to effectively log, manage, track and report on work placement consent from all parties (Student, Parent/Guardian, Employer, and College Staff). Watch the Consent Management training webinar to find out more by clicking this link.  You may have noticed the new Skills Builder sections on the student homepage which has replaced the work personality questionnaire. Watch the Skills Builder training webinar to find out more by clicking this link.    CONNECT® Refresher – Placement Creation CONNECT® Refresher – Self Placement Management Watch the Training Video Next Weeks Webinars! Sign-up here Sign-up here CONNECT Playlists CONNECT® Mobile App Overview watch the playlist CONNECT® Web Overview watch the playlist CONNECT® Server Set-up watch the playlist CONNECT® Web Admin Navigation watch the playlist CONNECT® Managing your employers! watch the playlist CONNECT® Webinar – Placement Creation watch the playlist CONNECT® Webinar – Health & Safety Risk Management watch the playlist CONNECT® Placement Progress & Tracking watch the playlist CONNECT® Reporting watch the playlist CONNECT® Careers and Work-Related Learning watch the playlist CONNECT® Showcase Webinars watch the playlist If you are struggling to get your server up and running, or need advice on any of the CONNECT functionality please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the team at connectsupport@changingeducation.co.uk  We also offer Q&A sessions that clients have found useful to share any queries or questions.  Stephen Hackney Director / Co-founder s.hackney@changingeducation.co.uk OTHER MEDIA Post 12.12.2024 Preparing Students for the Professional World Learn more Post 31.10.2024 Transforming Lives: The Early Access Programme (EAP) and Mark Hardy’s Journey Learn more Post 10.12.2024 Ensuring Secure and Worry-Free Work Experience Placements Learn more Newsletter subscription Thank you for subscribe! Email * Subscribe Contact details Media/ Articles/ CONNECT Newsletter 15.10.2021 Share: 15.10.2021 Share: CONNECT Newsletter 15.10.2021 Episode 1: Who we are and what we do October 12, 2021 In this our first episode, host Amos Madra speaks to company Directors & Co-Founders Matthew Hodgkinson and Stephen Hackney about the Changing Education Group. They discuss the company’s early days to the present day and the vast array of services on offer including our Connect software. Each week we will look to dissect and critically analyse the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of careers and work-related learning provision.  Listen to the Podcast This education and training session will explore how students who can not access the mobile app can view, manage and track their placement and careers interactions via student access URL. Watch the Training Video Next Weeks Webinars! Sign-up here CONNECT Playlists CONNECT® Mobile App Overview watch the playlist CONNECT® Web Overview watch the playlist CONNECT® Server Set-up watch the playlist CONNECT® Web Admin Navigation watch the playlist CONNECT® Managing your employers! watch the playlist CONNECT® Webinar – Placement Creation watch the playlist CONNECT® Webinar – Health & Safety Risk Management watch the playlist CONNECT® Placement Progress & Tracking watch the playlist CONNECT® Reporting watch the playlist CONNECT® Careers and Work-Related Learning watch the playlist CONNECT® Showcase Webinars watch the playlist If you are struggling to get your server up and running, or need advice on any of the CONNECT functionality please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the team at connectsupport@changingeducation.co.uk  We also offer Q&A sessions that clients have found useful to share any queries or questions.  Let’s get your server up and running! What do I need to do? Step 1. Get your students imported via a manual import or via the Data Exchange Service  CONNECT Mini Guide – Student Import Spec and Manual Import  CONNECT Webinar – DES Data Exchange Service Step 2. Add/Remove staff access.  CONNECT Mini Guide – Staff Creation & Import Spec Step 3. Update/Cleanse your employer database.  CONNECT Webinar – Employer Database & Geolocation Step 4. Get your automated risk management, attendance, and appraisal functionality turned on.  CONNECT Webinar – DKIM CRON Guide / Automated Functionality Step 5. Review your Health & Safety Risk Management Template.  CONNECT Webinar – H&S Risk Management Step 6. Launch the CONNECT Mobile App with your students.  CONNECT Mobile App Launch Poster CONNECT Mobile App Student user guide  Step 7. Review the Education and Training Video Resources Step 8. Sign-up to attend the weekly CONNECT Webinars  All server set-up user guides can be accessed by clicking this link  Stephen Hackney Director / Co-founder s.hackney@changingeducation.co.uk OTHER MEDIA Post 02.01.2025 Engaging Employers to Shape the Future Workforce Learn more Post 15.10.2024 Simplifying Work Experience Management For Schools And Employers Learn more Post 09.02.2025 How Can Schools Ensure Every Student Receives Quality Career Advice? Learn more Newsletter subscription Thank you for subscribe! Email * Subscribe Contact details Back Keyboard shortcuts Map DataMap data ©2021 Terms of Use Report a map error Map data ©2021 We have received your contact details and request. We are now reviewing it and will get back to you within 48 hours. Back Send enquiry Contact details Name * Email * Organisation name * Telephone * What would you like to discuss? 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