Giving tomorrow’s digital talent access and experience today.
Career Accelerator provides 13-17 year old students with the opportunity to prepare for careers in the digital sector through real world career support, while enabling digital businesses to work with talented young people from diverse backgrounds.
The digital sector is creating jobs 2x as fast as the non-digital sector
60% of technical roles are filled by white people, but only 19% are filled by women and 1-2% black people
The overall proportion of girls doing STEM subjects drops off at A Level, with lower numbers of females compared to males being entered for all STEM subjects, except Biology
BAME students represent 19% of students studying STEM subject at University however out of these groups, Black Other (non-African and Caribbean) and Bangladeshi students only made up 2% and 3% respectively
100% of employers found Career Accelerator an effective way to develop students’ knowledge and skills
100% of students would recommend Career Accelerator to their friends
Career Accelerator helps provide meaningful training and volunteering opportunities to digital companies through school outreach opportunities, helping empower future business leaders, whilst nurturing tomorrow’s diverse talent.
Career Accelerator is supported by Teach First, LinkedIn for Good, Cambridge Social Ventures, The Young Academy and Year Here to help it develop and scale across the UK.
To date, Career Accelerator has collaborated with over 30 digital businesses and 8 schools. Career Accelerator is supported by Business Advisers who are experts in the education, digital and social enterprise fields.
