Reverse Recruitment Fair Prep Session
Oxfordshire County Council are hosting the Reverse Recruitment Fair in June 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity for local employers to speak to the young people of Oxfordshire to find out just how skilled they are, and how they can ensure this incredible pipeline of local talent can work for their business in the short and long term.
It's a chance for you to demonstrate the strengths you have, the skills you have developed and how you can transfer these to the workplace and become a valuable asset to their business.
But how do we know what skills we have? How can we find our strengths for the workplace in the everyday activities we do? How can we articulate these skills so that employers recognise their value? In preparation for the Reverse Recruitment Fair, we will conduct a prep session focusing on how essential skills can enhance and build upon your strengths, ensuring you are well-prepared for the event. Essential skills support us to do any job, anywhere.
The Skills Builder Universal Framework is the world’s leading tool for measuring and building essential skills, those highly transferable skills that are needed for every job and are the same skills we develop on a daily basis in a range of ways. By creating a consistent language for essential skills, we can articulate the skills we have developed and demonstrate and identify areas for development in skills we want to build further.
This prep session will introduce you to essential skills and support you to reflect on how you use these on a regular basis. It will give you the language to capture your strengths and articulate how you can transfer these to the workplace. You will have the chance to self-assess your own skills and to build an action plan for developing these further. These are the same essential skills businesses value so highly and are looking for in recruitment, so you will be speaking a shared language, ready to show employers at the Reverse Recruitment Fair just how skilled you are, and how much they need your skillset on their team!
- When: Thursday 30 January 2025
- Where: Abingdon & Witney College, Wootton Road, Abingdon OX14 1GG
- What time: 10-1pm
- Audience: 14+ (EHCP, SEN Register and/or emerging needs)
If you are interested in signing up or have any other questions, please email lydia.martin@oxfordshire.gov.uk