• Employment Officers who are arranging work tasters, work experience places, paid employment
• Service managers and Team Leaders who wish to gain better insight into employer engagement within service development
• FE colleges, Careers services and work-based learning providers

The course is designed to allow participants to:

• build personal confidence
• understand the employer's perspective
• learn how to develop long term relationships with employers
• understand how to pitch to employers
• address employer concerns
• understand marketing techniques

Course participants will be able to:

• Identify sources of local labour market intelligence
• Be able to articulate the business case for employing a diverse workforce, including people with disabilities
• Understand the models of equal opportunity and diversity management
• Know the role of reasonable adjustments that employers can make to recruit a diverse workforce
• Understand the value of networking with employers
• Understand how to market services effectively
• Understand how to prepare and deliver a presentation to employers
• Understand methods of securing and maintaining employer involvement in supported employment

The course is normally delivered to groups over 1.5 days but we've had to adapt to Covid restrictions by delivering the course online over two half-days. We hope to move back to face-to-face training soon.

The course is delivered by our experienced staff and associates, all of whom have many years experience of successfully engaging employers.

This training is normally commissioned by services for their staff team and costs £1,500+vat (members) or £1,800+vat for non-member organisations.  Though individual places can be booked £240+vat (members) or £295+vat (non-members)