Employer Engagement

Aspire Learning together with Bill Grady OBE, Educational Consultant, has been working closely with colleges in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight supporting them on their journey towards Action for Business.

 “Aspire Learning played an extremely valuable role in helping us gain Action for Business accreditation with a series of consultancy sessions, workshops and readiness checks.  They helped us focus on the importance of employer engagement and in particular supporting us to develop business-like practices in a consistent way which has changed the way the College deals with employer work.” Beverley Flanagan – Basingstoke College of Technology

Promoting your services to employers is key to generating revenue

  • Does your strategic planning focus the organisation on increasing business with employers?
  • Do you have strategies in place that will increase your capacity to deliver an improved service to employers?
  • Could the way you work with employers have an impact on your business?
  • Are your staff dealing with employers in an effective and professional way?
  • Are staff maximising the contact they have with employers to offer them solutions to all of their business needs?

 Aspire Learning can help you

  • With planning your approach to increased employer engagement;
  • Increase the efficiency of your employer engagement staff;
  • Improve the value gained from employer relationships; and ultimately
  • Increase your income from employer engagement.

“Aspire Learning has provided Operational Management support in relation to compiling and reviewing our Employer Engagement Plans, this support was insightful and professional and has helped our Managers identify opportunities to increase commercial income.

Training and support workshops provided by Aspire have been instrumental to ensuring that we are employer focused and have standards in place to meet employers needs and expectations...Aspire provide a mix of formal and informal development opportunities that deliver real increases in workplace performance.... The Aspire team are always available for ongoing support, advice and assistance........The Aspire Team is comprised of people who've been there in Colleges and Industry and have made it happen. They are a grounded team who appreciate the reality of developing employer engagement in Colleges where there are competing priorities.... Follow up and Evaluation are a key feature of their support which ensures value for money...” 
Dee John, Executive Director, Corporate College – Highbury College, Portsmouth.

Support can be tailored to meet you requirements

Aspire Learning has a number of support offers that can be tailored to meet your specific needs and that fully cover all areas relating to engaging employers and securing their business:

  • The ability to improve the capacity and opportunity to engage with employers;
  • Skills training and development:
      • The employer journey
      • Employer Engagement
      • Advanced  Employer Engagement Skills
      • Marketing
      • Procedures
      • Service standards and protocols;
  • Opportunities for staff to shadow experienced employer engagement consultants;
  • Readiness checks to identify how successfully you are working with employers at present – and identification of areas for improvement;
  • Mystery shopping to identify areas of excellence and areas for development in dealing with employer enquiries;
  • Development planning;
  • Re-thinking the strategy - development and implementation of a revised employer engagement plan.

If you feel that we could support your organisation in improving any element of your employer engagement strategy please do not hesitate to contact us at info@aspirelearning.co.uk or by telephoning Jo Sellars on 02392 875238.