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Employability Skills
Movement to Work helps employers deliver high-quality employability opportunities for young people aged 16-30 facing barriers to work. As a registered UK charity, we offer fully funded support to businesses interested in youth employment.
Our mission is to help young people gain access to great work experiences and expose organisations to fresh, untapped talent. On this webpage, we’re sharing resources from across our vast network, curated to assist the early recruitment journey and improve the chances of young people nailing their desired role!
Too often, young people get stuck in the ‘no experience, no job cycle’. We’re here to help change that by ensuring businesses offer great opportunities to give that experience, and by sharing the tools and resources we think can help bolster confidence along the way.
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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The King’s Trust tools and resources
King’s Trust
Top tips on how to get a job, from updating your CV to videos on how to build your business.
CV top tips
King’s Trust
We’ve all been taught how to write a CV at some point in our lives but it can still be really hard to get it right. Follow the top tips to make sure your CV is working hard for you.
Interview tips
King’s Trust
Interviews make everyone slightly nervous. But, with this clear list of hints and tips, you’ll be well-equipped to impress the bosses and potentially get the job
Career planning
King’s Trust
Working out what to do with your life and how to get your dream job can be a long and complicated process. To make things a bit easier, read through these simple steps to help you on the path to career happiness
Professional skills
King’s Trust
It’s time to get professional. With these handy hints and videos, you’ll boost the skills you need to get into work and move up the ladder.
Building confidence
King’s Trust
A range of activities to help you discover your strengths, build a positive mindset and be more assertive
Explore The King’s Trust support
King’s Trust
Whether you are looking to build your confidence, need help getting a job or want support to start a business, The King’s Trust has support and resources for you. Start something with them today.
Communicating for business impact
AmberGo
Learn how to boost your impact when communicating in business. To access the course for free, click on ‘Get Started’ and enter MOVEMENTTOWORK24 when asked ‘Have a coupon?’.
Rock your linkedIn profile
Explore how to create a LinkedIn profile that brings your personal career story to life.
Digital skills compass
Microsoft
Your personalised guide to understanding and improving your technology skills at home, school, or work. Identify opportunities to learn and stay ahead in a changing world of technology and artificial intelligence.
Career essentials in cybersecurity
Microsoft & LinkedIn
Discover the skills needed for a career in cybersecurity. Gain a solid understanding of commonly used cybersecurity terms. Explore the current threat landscape and learn the core concepts of cybersecurity.
Career essentials in sustainable tech
Microsoft & LinkedIn
This learning path will equip you with an understanding of sustainability concepts vital to businesses, ways sustainability can drive innovation, and tech solutions that can help companies meet strategic sustainability goals.
Employability skills training
Movement to Work
This training will build the skills and confidence you need to create a great impression with your employer, showcase your experiences and successfully apply for a job following your placement.
Discover your personal skills and strengths
Barclays LifeSkills
Looking for inspiration on which job roles might match your current skills and strengths? Use the Wheel of Strengths tool to discover roles that you might not have thought of and be surprised at where your skills could take you.
Build your core transferable skills
Barclays LifeSkills
Communication, leadership, problem-solving and resilience are among the top skills employers look for and can be transferred across to any industry or role. Build your core transferable skillset with these resources, helping you consider which you possess and those you could develop further.
Applying for a job
Barclays LifeSkills
Show a potential employer that you are the right candidate for the job with resources to help you tailor your CV, write a cracking cover letter and prepare for an interview.
Communication Foundations
Build stronger workplace communication skills for meetings, emails, pitches and presentations. Learn to shape clear messages, adapt to context, listen well, respond to feedback and communicate with greater confidence.
Teamwork foundations
Learn how to work better in a team by understanding effective team behaviours, contributing your strengths, improving weaknesses, communicating clearly, supporting others and helping create a productive, successful working environment.
Problem Solving
Learn practical problem-solving techniques to identify root causes, generate creative solutions and choose the best course of action using tools such as brainstorming, mind maps, decision trees, logic and intuition.
Critical Thinking
Develop critical thinking skills to define problems clearly, uncover root causes, break down complex issues and make better decisions using practical tools such as the 5 whys, 7 so whats and the 80/20 rule.
Better Decision making
Improve your decision-making by developing better judgment, understanding your default judging style and learning practical ways to think more clearly, respond wisely in difficult situations and make stronger choices at work.
Time Management Fundamentals
Learn practical time management strategies to get more done, stay focused, reduce clutter, build better habits and manage your workload more effectively throughout the working day.
Preparing Yourself for Change
Learn how to navigate change with greater confidence by understanding common psychological responses, building resilience and using practical strategies to adapt, protect your wellbeing and thrive in uncertain workplaces.
Developing Resilience
In the face of change and uncertainty, learn how to build your resilience and cultivate mental agility. Resilience and grit will help you to cope with change and create productive shifts in thinking and perseverance
Effective communication
Learn how to communicate with greater presence by building self-awareness, trust and patience, helping you stay focused, manage emotions, build rapport and become a more confident, effective communicator.
Learning Office 2024
Build practical Microsoft Office skills across Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, learning to create polished documents, analyse data, design presentations and manage emails, meetings and schedules effectively.
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FOR TRAINERS
Tech We Can – Champion Resources
Tech She Can
Resources for trainers to deliver Tech We Can to students. Tech We Can is a programme of free learning materials, for use by teachers or parents, to inspire both boys and girls about a future career in technology..
Barclays LifeSkills teaching resources
Barclays LifeSkills
Free resources including lesson plans, modules, and interactive tools to support you with coaching young people or adult learners in building the core transferable skills, knowledge, confidence, and connections they need to get into work.
Discovering personal skills and strengths
Barclays LifeSkills
Celebrate personal strengths with young people through a combination of personal reflection and group work to identify their successes and how these relate to their future aspirations. These resources also include a 10-minute icebreaker activity to get them energized and is great to use with the Wheel of Strengths tool
Building core transferable skills
Barclays LifeSkills
Communication, leadership, teamwork and resilience are among the top skills employers look for when recruiting, with each skill being used differently depending on the industry, role or context. The activities in this resource allow young people to identify which of these skills they already possess and those they can develop further.
Applying core transferable skills to a CV or interviews
Barclays LifeSkills
Once you have developed and built examples of core transferable skills with young people, encourage them to think about how their skills and attributes can be demonstrated differently depending on the job they are looking for and how they might find suitable employment opportunities.