News
See first Career Snapshot
As a new normality starts to appear in our working and everyday lives, Worktree emerges with gifts of innovations created during lock down. Due to uncertainty over the future of our face-to-face Career Work Out sessions in schools, we have had to reinvent ourselves to...
Career Snapshot Development Update
We’ve made good progress towards making Career Snapshot a reality. Web development is underway and our amazing volunteers have been submitting their video snapshots.
Onlining Worktree’s popular card game
Last month we asked you to complete our surveymonkey survey to help with the data we need to update our popular trumps-style Job Cards for young people to use at school and home. Big thanks to all those who took the time to complete it! The team have been busy...
Trialing live Career WorkOut online
Given the uncertainty about when students will return to school, and how social-distancing requirements will play out over coming months, Worktree is suspending all face-to-face Career WorkOut sessions between now and July. "It's hugely disappointing to be losing the...
Worktree launch exciting new pilot – Career Snapshot
Worktree is excited to announce that we are taking this Covid-19 lock–down period as an opportunity to create and develop an all new way to deliver employer encounters to students.
Help create new job cards game
Worktree is producing a new set of trumps-style Job Cards for young people to use at school and home (similar the World of Work cards we produced years ago, pictured). We need help from our volunteers to get the data right. If you have one of the jobs below, please...
Popular volunteering
In the first two terms of 2019-20, a total of 721 volunteers from 298 companies have participated in Career WorkOut sessions in schools. Volunteer feedback has been more positive than ever. 99% agree that 'Talking to the students made me feel more positive about my...
Anything I can do to help the next generation – Carl Yeomanson
(This also published in All About Business, April 2020.) Carl Yeomanson is owner and director of Plumbing & Gas Solutions Limited, which was 10 years old in March and employs 16 people. As well as providing unique and bespoke services, Carl is committed to...
Really impressed by the young people – Graeme Woodhouse and Libby Hallows, Santander
Graeme Woodhouse has been a Compliance Monitoring Consultant at Santander UK PLC since 2018. Recently he and Santander colleague Libby Hallows took part in Career WorkOut at Sir Herbert Leon Academy. "These sessions are great fun and engaging," said Graeme, "also...
Great to answer questions about apprenticeships in construction – Suzanne Moss, Ringway
Suzanne Moss, Business Manager at Ringway (highway maintenance services), attended a Career WorkOut session with Year 10 students at Sir Herbert Leon Academy. “As it was National Careers Week, I went online to book up for a Worktree Career WorkOut session and brought...