The key to effective careers preparation

Britain’s ageing demographic profile and the consistent growth in job creation points worryingly towards a potentially major gap between supply and demand in the jobs market over the next decade. Even if every student emerging from education during that period settled successfully into working life, there would still be a big shortfall.

There is more pressure than ever to ensure that all of our young people are properly prepared for the types of jobs emerging in the economy and that none fail to find suitable roles because of poor learning or training choices or misguided advice.

Teachers are influential role models with a pastoral duty to help shape the future of our population. By offering life and career guidance, they help our young people to make decisions that could affect their entire futures. Students look to teachers for assistance in deciphering what skills future employers will be looking for and how to develop and hone these skills.