Who
We Support
The Support
We Provide
Our
Mentoring Programmes
How our
Mentoring Works
Who We Support
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SCHOOLS
14-18 year old students with a focus on girls and ethnic minority students from lower socio economic backgrounds.
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LGBT+
18-30 year old LGBT+ young people.
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NEURODIVERGENT & DISABLED
18-30 year old Neurodivergent and Disabled people.
The Support We Provide
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE:
1:1 Virtual and in-person mentoring and other career support in collaboration with our business partners.
FOR OUR BUSINESSES PARTNERS:
Employee volunteering, social impact opportunities and inter-company collaboration.
How our Mentoring Works
- We recruit engaged mentors from across your business and employee resource groups. Mentees are selected through interviews & staff recommendations.
- We run a dynamic and informative 2 hour training session for mentors and mentees.
- Mentees are matched with a professional mentor that shares their career aspirations, hobbies, interests or demographics.
- 3 x 1 hour mentoring sessions focused on career options, CV writing, interview skills, and finding top jobs and progressing in the workplace.
Select the relevant button for a full outline of each of our programmes.
WHO WE SUPPORT
- 14-18 year old students with a focus on girls and ethnic minority students from lower socio economic backgrounds.
- 18-30 year old LGBT+ young people.
- 18-30 year old Neurodivergent and Disabled young people.
THE SUPPORT WE PROVIDE
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE:
1:1 Virtual and in-person mentoring and other career support in collaboration with our business partners.
FOR OUR BUSINESSES PARTNERS:
Employee volunteering, social impact opportunites and inter-company collaboration.
OUR MENTORING PROGRAMMES
Career Accelerator runs 3 mentoring programmes:
HOW OUR MENTORING WORKS
- We recruit engaged mentors from across your business and employee resource groups. Mentees are selected through interviews & staff recommendations.
- We run a dynamic and informative 2 hour training session for mentors and mentees. Mentees are matched with a professional mentor that shares their career aspirations, hobbies, interests or demographics.
- 3 x 1 hour mentoring sessions focus on career options, CV writing, interview skills, and finding top jobs and progressing in the workplace.
We help young people see themselves in a leading company
Learn
about careers in professional sectors.
Develop
ambitious, realistic career goals.
Build
their professional network.
Make
informed career choices.
Enhance
confidence and aspirations.
Sam
Sam was mentored by Cormac at VirginMediaO2 in 2022 and is a Future Trainee at Clifford Chance.
“I took part in the mentorship scheme for LGBTQ+ people in my final year of University. At the time, I was struggling to find a place in the world outside of St Andrews and how to market myself in a turbulent job market shaken up by COVID-19.
I lacked confidence as an LGBTQ+ person, with the rise in hate and discrimination which robbed me of much of my joy and pride.
Career Accelerator helped me when I needed it the most, and they could do the same for you. Mayur Gupta and Rebecca Lewis were amazing in making a daunting process feel manageable, enabling me to thrive post-university.
They continue to provide support and guidance even now. Equally, I count myself incredibly lucky they partnered hme up with Cormac Connolly. As a mentor, his patience and insight provided a much-needed voice of reason. I still maintain that without his help in how to tackle case study interviews, I would never have made it as far as I did in my various job
Amy
Economics Undergraduate at Lancaster University.
“Career Accelerator showed me what the inside of a big company really looks like. Lisa helped me to see the relevance of STEM, and the real world application appealed to me. It was exciting because I could suddenly see myself doing a job like cyber security.
Lisa shared similar interests so we always had lots to talk about! I built my confidence which helped me to focus on my studies and career research.
Through Career Accelerator I’ve gotten access to career opportunities that I wouldn’t otherwise have had. I wouldn’t have thought to choose the same A-Levels, which is crazy to think about! I went from feeling like Maths was hard to choosing to do Advanced Maths at A-Level. I’m so glad I got that opportunity.”
What our mentees are saying
See all of our video testimonials.
Video Testimonial - Parineeta
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Video Testimonial - William
Video Testimonial - Tanya
Video Testimonial - Charlotte
What our mentees are saying
See all of our video testimonials.
Video Testimonial - Parineeta
Other key services we offer to businesses
Roundtables
Inter-company diversity and inclusion roundtables.
Roundtables
We run a quarterly D&I roundtable for all network leads and D&I and HR leaders.
Events
Running in-person events with your company.
Events
For example, we’ve run:
- LGBT+ Young Professional Networking events with Vodafone and LGBT+ Graduation Events with Snapchat
- Socio economic diversity and inclusion events with Brunswick Group
Research
Carrying out research together.
Research
We work with business partners when they are interested in carrying out research related to young people, diversity and inclusion and employment support. We help businesses with choosing a narrative for the research, getting access to young peoples’ perspectives and connecting them with relevant stakeholders related to the research, such as youth organisations or other business partners.
Consultancy
Career Accelerator consulting.
Consultancy
We offer consulting services to business partners to help them spearhead or improve the work they do around young people, diversity and inclusion and early careers support.
Workshops
Organising career workshops.
Workshops
We work with our business partners to organise in-person career workshops for businesses looking to expand their social impact and engage their volunteers. We help with finding the schools, organising the session, training up the volunteers and collecting feedback.
Some captured moments
From our events, workshops, assemblies and mentoring sessions.
The businesses and organisations we work with
