Employer engagement, Recently Launched
Talent Unlocked
The role of businesses to inspire, hire, and support ethnically diverse young people to thrive at work.
What are we doing?
Talent Unlocked is a three-year partnership with Business in the Community (BITC) to convert evidence into tangible change in workplaces.
Responding to need
Young people have highlighted the need for employers to:
- Review recruitment practices to eliminate discrimination and bias.
- Establish a culture that encourages speaking up.
- Offer guaranteed training and learning opportunities to young people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
Overview
Talent Unlocked is a partnership in three key parts:
Experiential Seeing is Believing visits
Read more about Experiential Seeing is Believing visits40 business leaders and practitioners will take part in a Seeing is Believing visit to connect with local communities and young people, seeing for themselves the challenges ethnically diverse young people face in the workplace.
Employers will come away with action plans, to convert their understanding into tangible change and champion workplace equity locally and nationally.
Pioneer Programme
Read more about Pioneer ProgrammeA group of pioneering employers will receive intensive support to uncover the barriers ethnically diverse young people face in the workplace, and to trial and test initiatives to break down ethnic disparities.
We will produce case studies of best practice to capture what works and demonstrate the impact on businesses.
Employer Engagement Activity
Read more about Employer Engagement ActivityWe will use learnings from the Seeing is Believing visits and the Pioneer Programme to raise widespread awareness of the barriers and enablers to employment for young people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
We will provide tangible insights and strategies to help businesses break down these barriers and address ethnic disparities, unlocking a diverse talent pool.
Programme aims
As the What Works centre for youth employment, we want to:
- Improve knowledge mobilisation in the youth employment sector
- Support employers to understand and implement evidence-informed change in the way they do things to enable young people to thrive
Through the partnership, we will support businesses to hire and inspire ethnically diverse young people so they can thrive at work.
