An Impactful Volunteering & Diversity Initiative for Businesses
By working with us you will be contributing to growing the pool of eligible talent in the UK to go into top apprenticeships, universities and jobs and be leaders in the professional sectors.
Career Accelerator has over 20 partnerships with leading companies. Our partners include Virgin Media O2, Cisco, Centrica, AstraZeneca, Snap inc and Vodafone.
Learn more about how we work from our partnership with Vodafone and Just Eat Takeaway.com.
Career Accelerator partners with Vodafone
Career Accelerator partners with Just Eat Takeaway.com
The benefits of encouraging diversity in the workplace
Leading companies in the UK are not as diverse as the general population. Over two-thirds (69%) of European companies surveyed have indicated that they have never had such a hard time positioning themselves as attractive employers (HR News). But you only need to look at the benefits to see why there is a growing urgency amongst businesses to strive for diversity:
Competitive Advantage
Diverse and inclusive companies enjoy a competitive advantage over their peers.
Wall Street Journal (2020)
Boosts Productivity
Diversity has been shown to correlate with better employee performance and engagement.
McKinsey (2018)
Attracts & Retains Talent
Increasing diversity allows companies to recruit from a broader talent pool, and makes them more likely to stay.
Race in the Workplace (2017)
Increases Innovation
Companies with above-average diversity produce a greater proportion of revenue from innovation.
Forbes (2020)
Important for Investors
66% of high-net-worth investors invest in companies that hire and promote employees of diverse backgrounds.
Morgan Stanley (2022)
Forward your Diversity & Inclusion agenda and expand your talent pipeline
Partnering with Career Accelerator:
- Enhances your reputation as an inclusive employer.
- Positively engages employee resource groups.
- Grants you access to a network of diverse young talent.
- Connects you to other inclusive companies.
- Business marketing & award opportunities.
Help your employees gain new perspectives & develop skills
Partnering with Career Accelerator provides your employees with:
- Professional development training opportunities.
- Meaningful volunteering opportunities.
- Engagement opportunities for employee resource groups.
- Investing in future diverse talent.
- Stronger employee brand loyalty.
MENTOR TRAINING FOR PARTNERS
- We run a dynamic and informative 2 hour training session for mentors.
- Training is provided using the OCM pedagogy.
- Cohort model where mentors from your company learn along mentors from other companies.
- If you are a Silver or Gold partner – you get your own programme so you don’t need to share this with other mentors from other companies.
- The topics we cover during the mentor training includes:
- Power and privilege
- Psychological safety
- Equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Inclusive management and leadership
- Working with GenZ
- Communication skills
- Tackling challenges and wellbeing
- Adaptability
MENTOR TRAINING FOR PARTNERS
- We run a dynamic and informative 2 hour training session for mentors.
- Training is provided using the OCM pedagogy.
- Cohort model where mentors from your company learn along mentors from other companies.
- If you are a Silver or Gold partner – you get your own programme so you don’t need to share this with other mentors from other companies.
- The topics we cover during the mentor training includes:
- Power and privilege
- Psychological safety
- Equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Inclusive management and leadership
- Working with GenZ
- Communication skills
- Tackling challenges and wellbeing
- Adaptability
What we can offer your business
Career Accelerator – Introduction Package
Benefits
Programme delivery:
- Up to 10 mentoring places. Mentoring places can be allocated across our Schools programme.
- Managing mentor recruitment.
- Training sessions for mentors.
Impact report and marketing:
- Personalised impact report on the difference your business has made to unrepresented, diverse young people.
Career Accelerator – Core Package
Benefits
Programme delivery:
- Up to 20 mentoring places. Mentoring places can be allocated over 3 terms during the year. Mentoring places can be allocated across our Schools, LGBT+ and Neurodiversity and Disability mentoring programmes.
- Managing mentor and speaker recruitment.
- Training sessions for mentors and speakers.
- Opportunity to organise 1 school focused career workshop at your offices.
Impact report and marketing:
- Personalised impact report on the difference your business has made to unrepresented, diverse young people. Opportunity for CA to collaborate with your marketing team at promoting the work your business has done externally.
Promoting job opportunities:
- Opportunity to advertise your job opportunities to young people / professionals in our alumni network aged around 16-30 years old, every quarter over a year.
Professional networking and development:
- Invitations to virtual ERG network lead roundtables every quarter with other businesses over a year.
- Opportunity to sponsor / host one in person business ERG roundtable.
Additional Bolt-Ons
We can also provide a customised quote based on any additional business requirements.
These can include:
- Additional mentoring places for your business.
- Organising work experience programmes for students to experience your company.
- Organising whole year group career assemblies at school partners, led by your employees to do with working at your business.
- Organising more career workshops at your business.
- Opportunity to sponsor or host in person ERG / senior leader HR and D&I roundtables at your offices.
- Running an internal session with your business around the impact they’ve made around outreach at the end of our programme together.
- Making impact videos around the work your business has achieved around outreach.
- Organising a series of early careers workshops tailored to your business for cohorts of students.
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.
What our partners and mentors are saying
What our mentees are saying
See all of our video testimonials.
Video Testimonial - Parineeta
Video Testimonial - Mohamed
Video Testimonial - William
Video Testimonial - Tanya
Video Testimonial - Charlotte
What our mentees are saying
See all of our video testimonials.
Video Testimonial - Parineeta
Some captured moments
From our events, workshops, assemblies and mentoring sessions.
The businesses and organisations we work with
