Essential Skills in Business
PwC
How can businesses support young people to develop the essential skills they need for the future?
Work experience
Insight days
Online resources
Using the Universal Framework has had a positive impact on our outreach work with secondary schools. It’s enabled us to focus on embedding the essential skills throughout our programme in a consistent way, making our offer a really attractive and relevant proposition to schools.
Laura Carter, Social Mobility Community Programmes Manager
To demystify the language used around ‘soft skills’ and allow young people to better connect to the workplace using a common language they are familiar with from the classroom.
To measure the impact of their programmes more consistently and quantify the change in skill levels.
To increase the number of PwC volunteers who are using consistent language to talk about essential skills
During FY23, PwC's Autumn, Spring and OFOD school series reached over 4,400 students across the country
Programmes effectively increased students’ Teamwork, Speaking, Leadership and Aiming High skills
Students awarded places on PwC’s School Leavers programme, technology degree apprenticeships and the Flying Start Programme
The Skills Builder Excellence Standards set clear guidelines for best practice across a business or team.
Business or teams who achieve these indicators work towards achieving an Excellence Mark accreditation.
The Outreach Excellence Standards are outlined below.
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