Impact
Pre pandemic Worktree facilitated face-to-face meetings between young people and diverse workers in carousels of short conversations about work; this raised young people’s career awareness, aspirations, communication skills and confidence, which helped them to find and hold jobs they could do well and enjoy; the long-term impact was reduced unemployment and under-employment, with both personal and social benefits.
We now deliver Virtual Career WorkOut straight to the classroom, delivering even more impact.
While interested in securing soon a quality external evaluation, Worktree currently focuses on delivering WorkOut sessions and measuring the following:
Inputs
The number of young people and diverse volunteer work guests in facilitated conversations in 2018-19:
Volunteers
Companies
Volunteer hours
MK students aged 9-18
Outputs
The number of sessions attended and participant evaluation forms completed in 2018-19:
Workout session
Student evaluation forms completed
Guest evaluation forms completed
Staff evaluation forms completed
Outcomes
The increases in students’ career awareness, aspirations, communication skills and confidence; guests’ enjoyment of sessions, feeling valued and more positive about their work.
Students
in 2018-19, of total 6504 students aged 11-18 who participated in Career WorkOut sessions, 5882 completed pre- and post-session questionnaires which showed:
%
increase in ‘I have a good idea of different jobs I could do in the world of work’
%
‘I know what skills an employer will expect me to have when I start work’
%
increase in ‘I know what job I want in future’
Work Guests
In 2018-19, 934 volunteer work guests from 330 MK companies completed a total of 2061 volunteer hours and completed 1,456 post-session questionnaires showing:
%
agreed "This has been a good volunteering opportunity"
%
agreed "The session facilitator performed well"
%
agreed "This is a good way of informing young people about different jobs"
%
agreed "Talking to the students made me feel more positive about my work"
%
agreed "I am now more likely to volunteer in my community"
Teachers
In 2018-19, 38 teachers from ten schools completed post-session questionnaires showing:
%
agreed "The variety of work guests was good for these students"
%
agreed "This was a meaningful employer encounter for these students"
%
100.0% agreed "The session was an important part of the students’ careers education"
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