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Welcome to The Work Ready Employability site

Hello and welcome to our employability site! Within this site student have access to lots of accredited training modules and resources to help them build their skills and succeed in their future career.

Our industry insights introduce them to a range of different professions and the video-based training modules equip them with key employability skills such as leadership, communication and resilience. These are written by specialists and feature interactive quizzing and top tips from companies such as Facebook, Disney and L’Oréal. The resources are bite size chunks of interactive information that educate and inspire!

There are also lots of great interviews with employers and universities so students can hear about the latest apprenticeship and higher education opportunities available to them.

We firmly believe that this site is a fantastic tool to help students develop their skills and boost their CV. 

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Skills Builder 

Discover essential skills strengths and areas for improvement with our new online self-assessment tool. Each essential skill is broken down into themes, and then smaller steps, so you can make quick and easy reflections. Benchmark against the Skills Builder Universal Framework, answer simple questions drawn from a single consistent language for building skills across contexts. Target your development, see your top essential skills strengths and areas for improvement, so you know what to focus on.

Skill Builder Self-assessment

Making sense of skills

A UK skills taxonomy by Jyl Djumalieva and Dr. Cath Sleeman

Skill shortages are costly and can hamper growth, but we don't currently measure these shortages in a detailed or timely way. To address this challenge, we have developed the first data-driven skills taxonomy for the UK that is publicly available. A skills taxonomy provides a consistent way of measuring the demand and supply of skills. It can also help workers and students learn more about the skills that they need, and the value of those skills. The full research paper is available to read here.

You can enter your job title to find the skills that you need

UK Skills taxonomy

Employability Hub

The PwC Foundation was formed to promote social inclusion and sustainable development in the UK. At PwC, we’re focussed on helping you to achieve your full potential. That’s why we’ve created the Employability Hub - a place where you’ll find useful virtual tools to support you to develop key employability skills. Explore our different resources, click the link below.

PwC's Employability Hub

PwC’s Virtual Classroom - a virtual programme open to students between Years 10 and 13. The programme combines both live and pre-recorded content.

PwC's Virtual Classroom

Deloitte on Demand Skills Sessions 

To help you achieve a career with meaning and boost your personal and professional growth, we’ve recorded a range of skills-focused sessions that are available to watch today. With downloadable content and other activities, these are a great resource to help in your self-development. Please click here to register for these events.

Virgin Media Situational Judgement Test (SJT)

An SJT is a popular way for employers to assess candidates in lots of different industries. It uses work-related scenarios to test a candidate’s behavioural decision-making and thought processes. You’ll be introduced to a set of scenarios you can work through at your own pace. For each scenario, you’ll be given 4 or 5 possible actions you could take. It's up to you to decide which is the most effective and which is the least effective.

Situational Judgement Test

The Nine to Five with Stacey Dooley

BBC Series: Stacey Dooley takes five 16-18 year olds into different industries crying out for young workers for the ultimate work experience challenge.