Stories
Career Snapshot and Worktree survival
Covid 19 has shaken Worktree to its roots. What, no more face-to-face employer encounters in schools?! The team’s creative juices have had to flow and we’ve come up with an exciting online offer including Career Snapshot videos, live Virtual Career WorkOut sessions...
Personal Group to the rescue
Damian Kane, Finance Controller for Personal Group, contacted Worktree last month, just before a Board meeting to discuss lack of funds since our work in schools has dried up, to talk about a possible donation. Working closely with Damian and the trustees of Personal...
Visual Identity on the cards!
Big thank you to Jacqui Wilkins and her team at Visual identity for all their hard work in designing our new ‘Find your job’ cards resource and Tom’s new book, 'How to find your job in 25 conversations'. Jacqui and her team designed our original set of cards a few...
“It changed the direction of my life” – Jacqui Wilkins, VI Creative
Jacqui Wilkins, MD of Visual Identity Creative Ltd, has been lead designer for the new ‘Find Your Job!’ card games that Worktree has been developing for schools (also available in an online version) during lockdown. “It’s been a pleasure working with Worktree to...
Thank you, volunteers
Many of our volunteers have contributed to research for our new 'Find Your Job' card games. In response to our recent e-survey, we have gathered data on your perceptions of the Strengths and Likes needed for 48 different jobs. We are in the final stage of design so...
Save Worktree
Like many charities, Worktree finds itself in a vulnerable situation and we are calling on our amazing community of volunteers to help us out. We need to build quickly our Snapshot library - from dozens to hundreds of recorded interviews - so we can survive and...
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...