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The Experience Programme

Our mission is to give all young people access to the top. By connecting our national network of schools with industry leading employers, we open young people’s eyes to the possibilities ahead of them.

Our programme is run through a simple, safe-guarded portal, giving students access to opportunities, schools an easy way to manage their work experience and employers the chance to diversify their early talent pipelines and meet their social mobility goals.

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Our Impact

21,500+

Completed placements provided since the Experience programme launched and our work is growing every year

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We work with employers from across industries and sectors to give students access to opportunities they would not otherwise be able to access

95%

of students felt they were better prepared for work after completing work experience placements or attending insight days through us

90%

of employers say we’ve helped them to reach students who lack access to their industry and who they wouldn’t have been able to reach otherwise

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Young People

We give students who wouldn’t otherwise have access to industry-leading organisations access to eye-opening work experience placements and inspiring insight days

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Schools and Colleges

We help teachers and careers leaders to manage their work experience more effectively and to offer their students high impact placements with top employers

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Employers

We work with large and small organisations to make it easy for them to reach new and diverse groups of students before they start their careers

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Our service was set up to make it easy for employers to reach new and diverse groups of students, simple for students to find high quality placements and straightforward for schools and colleges to access and manage work experience placements. Take part today to start accessing everything Experience has to offer.

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Through sharing best practice, practical advice on what we know works and inspiring events, we’re crowd-sourcing our partner employers’ expertise to support better practice across each industry. If you’re already working with us, or you work in early careers and social mobility, you can access our industry specific resources and events.

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Speakers for Schools is piloting our newest service, Youth Card in the West Midlands. A forever free app to improve the social mobility of young people. Packed full of career and life preparing opportunities. Now available to 16-25-year olds to download.

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