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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NEURODIVERSE & DISABLED
14-30 year old Neurodiverse 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 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.
- 14-30 year old Neurodiverse 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.
SIGN UP IN TIME FOR THE AUTUMN 2023 TERM
Applications for our Autumn 2023 cohort of mentors and mentees are now open until June 30th 2023.
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ambitious, realistic career goals.
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informed career choices.
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confidence and aspirations.
CASE STUDY
Murat
Cyber Security Consultant at Deloitte
Murat was mentored in 2017. He is currently a Cyber Security Consultant at Deloitte.
“I found out where my passions within tech lie with the help of Career Accelerator, they were able to help me on my journey by introducing me to a variety of fields along with the opportunites for students. Being on Career Accelerator was a rewarding experience and was stimulating enough to learn more about yourself.
It allowed me to set my professional goals and plans so I can clearly define my next steps. This definitely helped me feel at ease especially when the workload piled on the following year. Career Accelerator has helped me organise my time which was convenient since I used the same skills in order to organise my A-level studies. I had to manage my newly created LinkedIn network, meetings with my mentor as well as the plethora of other opportunities Career Accelerator had to offer such as potential summer experience.”
What our mentees are saying
See all of our video testimonials.
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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
Every quarter we organise virtual roundtables connecting up our different Employee Resource Group Leads at our partner companies with one another so they can meet their counterparts in other firms, share good practice and explore collaboration opportunities.
We run 4 types of roundtables
- LGBT+
- Gender
- Race
- Neurodiversity and Disability
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
