The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) is the national body for careers education in England, supporting schools and colleges to deliver modern, 21st century careers education. Our mission is to help every young person to find their best next step. Set up by Government our work includes:
Training and supporting Careers Leaders in schools and colleges
Bringing employers, educators, and providers together through our network of Careers Hubs
Sharing practical digital tools and resources
We work with schools, special schools, colleges, employers, training providers and local skills and economic bodies to improve careers education.
The CEC gives employers the opportunity to target future talent, build a diverse workforce and give back to local communities using our networks. We provide national partnerships, frameworks, data, and resources to help you with meaningful and impactful careers education to enable the outcomes needed for young people and your business.
How employers can work with CEC
The Employer Standardsfree online self-assessment survey and data dashboard will help you to understand where your business is, what good looks like and how to improve with support.
Careers Hubs enables you to connect to specific schools, special schools and colleges based on data allowing you to target your activities, experiences of the workplace, share resources and support clear pathways into your sector.
Cornerstone Employer: Allows you to raise your profile in a specific geographic area with schools, special schools and colleges as well as local government and employers joining a community of over 400 businesses nationwide.
Enterprise Adviser: Employees engage with local education establishments which improves workplace skills whilst investing also in the community and building your brand locally.
Teacher encounters: Allows you to work with teaching staff/tutors to ensure that the curriculum has careers and skills built in and they have up to date information about the local labour market.
Industry Partnerships: Enables business and sector bodies to activate their ambitions around talent and skills pipelines.
Our Resources Directory is carefully curated repository for schools, special schools, and colleges across England that you can share information on.
