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Social Mobility Awareness Day: Why does it matter?
Why does social mobility matter? It’s a great question, and one that is often not widely understood. Social Mobility Awareness Day is a great opportunity to inform and educate about… read more
Employer blog: Social Mobility Awareness Day
June 15th is Social Mobility Day, which means there’s never been a better time to talk about what social mobility is, why it matters and how we can all help… read more
Employer Blog: An award-winning outreach collaboration combatting socio-economic cultural bias in universities
Following on from last week’s Employer Masterclass: Outreach and Social Mobility, Enterprise shares with us how the award-winning outreach programme they have developed with a partner has impacted the lives… read more
Recap: Outreach and social mobility
Engaging with candidates from a low socio-economic background through outreach can be a really powerful way to raise awareness of your organisation and industry and reach a wider range of… read more
Employer blog – Meeting the ambitions of employers and young people: from outreach to intake
In today’s blog, Oli de Botton, CEO of The Careers & Enterprise Company shares with us how employers can engage with schools and colleges through outreach, and the benefits of… read more
Social Mobility Index
The Social Mobility Index is a framework for measuring social mobility in the UK. It enables a systematic look at social mobility outcomes, as well as the drivers behind social… read more
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Celebrating the National Day for Staff Networks
As we celebrate the National Day for Staff Networks, we asked our colleague Paula Kemp, Head of Employer engagement to tell us more about how staff networks can support the… read more
Employer Newsletter – 5 May 2023
It was great to see so many of you joining us last week at our most recent masterclass on ‘Accents in the Workplace’. If you were unable to join us,… read more
Recap: Accents in the Workplace
Your accent is not directly relevant to work outputs. Simple, right? Despite that, we often unthinkingly associate certain accents with certain stereotypes, with public perceptions of Received Pronunciation being largely… read more
Employer blog: The powerful benefits of outreach through mentoring
In our SMC employer consultation at the end of 2022, we found that almost all employers who responded participated in outreach, using it to: raise awareness of their organisation and… read more
Accent bias – what does that mean in practice?
In Speaking Up: Accents and social mobility, published last year by the Sutton Trust, researchers looked at accent bias throughout life, highlighting how experiences differed by socio-economic background. They found… read more
Employer Newsletter – 14 April 2023
It was great to welcome almost 200 people to our most recent masterclass, ‘The art of using storytelling to build inclusion’! Don’t worry if you didn’t manage to join us… read more