PUSH collaborating with employers
Outstanding businesses are made up of outstanding people. We know you’re looking for passionate innovators. Invest in the future of your organisation by letting us help you find them. We’re experienced in matching eager students with aspirational companies, and we support students in obtaining employability skills. Through this, we give you direct exposure to future industry leaders who will be the perfect fit for your team.
Who is Push?
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We're a non-profit organisation with over 25 years worth of experience in delivering outreach sessions to students considering their post-16 and post-18 steps.
Our unique approach? We’re as funny as we are informative. Through our well-tested blend of humour and empowering advice, Push sessions can be an incredibly refreshing and engaging way to support recruitment for your apprenticeship scheme, graduate recruitment or sponsored degree initiatives. Working with the likes of KPMG, CGI and Lloyds, Push has extensive experience of engaging in employer outreach. This has us clued-up on how to best inform and excite 1,000s of young people about pursuing the opportunities you can offer. |
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What do we do?
Many of your target audience may be considering university as an option.
The university admissions process is, in effect, a conveyor belt that carries students along from mid-year 12 through to enrolment. If your company seeks to recruit them once they are firmly on the conveyor belt, it will take a far greater effort to persuade even well-matched students to make the positive choice to get off.
Push is an incredibly effective way of encouraging young people to think impartially about their aspirations at 18. We achieve this by highlighting the benefits of employer-led programmes, while advising them on key hard & soft skills that will make them the perfect fit for your organisation.
Even if you’re offering a sponsored degree programme, students need to know this is worth pursuing instead of the traditional route they will have been encouraged to go down.
Push will go into depth with you to discuss your current recruitment challenges, and pitch our solutions to them. The solution is often a highly informative yet fun programme of live engagement for the young people you’re trying to reach.
We want to help you encourage the most employable students to join your company – they should be excited by the rewards you offer them, and you should be excited by what they’ll bring in return.
A collaboration with Push ensures you the greatest long-term chance of success with the bright young people who join your organisation.
Our approach is developed by leading academic research on employability. Over many years, this has been distilled into simple, engaging and practical messages for students. It is then presented in a lively, often humorous style, using lots of interaction. Where appropriate, we also use games, exercises, role plays, videos, etc.
We don't want to replace what your team do, but we can help prepare students to enter into your application process with a higher level of engagement, enthusiasm and awareness.
We want to provoke them to ask the right questions (and provide them with the tools to discover the answers for themselves) so they fly through your recruitment process fully informed and dedicated.
The university admissions process is, in effect, a conveyor belt that carries students along from mid-year 12 through to enrolment. If your company seeks to recruit them once they are firmly on the conveyor belt, it will take a far greater effort to persuade even well-matched students to make the positive choice to get off.
Push is an incredibly effective way of encouraging young people to think impartially about their aspirations at 18. We achieve this by highlighting the benefits of employer-led programmes, while advising them on key hard & soft skills that will make them the perfect fit for your organisation.
Even if you’re offering a sponsored degree programme, students need to know this is worth pursuing instead of the traditional route they will have been encouraged to go down.
Push will go into depth with you to discuss your current recruitment challenges, and pitch our solutions to them. The solution is often a highly informative yet fun programme of live engagement for the young people you’re trying to reach.
We want to help you encourage the most employable students to join your company – they should be excited by the rewards you offer them, and you should be excited by what they’ll bring in return.
A collaboration with Push ensures you the greatest long-term chance of success with the bright young people who join your organisation.
Our approach is developed by leading academic research on employability. Over many years, this has been distilled into simple, engaging and practical messages for students. It is then presented in a lively, often humorous style, using lots of interaction. Where appropriate, we also use games, exercises, role plays, videos, etc.
We don't want to replace what your team do, but we can help prepare students to enter into your application process with a higher level of engagement, enthusiasm and awareness.
We want to provoke them to ask the right questions (and provide them with the tools to discover the answers for themselves) so they fly through your recruitment process fully informed and dedicated.
How can we support you?
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We’re able to capture a significant amount data from the young people we speak to. We currently already have over 7,000 UK students who have opted into receiving Push Post, our free monthly newsletter.
This offers a cost-effective and simple process for employers to reach students: we inspire them, inform them of your exciting opportunities, and then gather details of those who are interested. We hand the data over to your team, so you can follow up with the young people who feel you offer them exactly what they want from life. |
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WORKING TOGETHER...
Push has experience working with companies such as...
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improving graduate Employability
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Push want to get university students deeply thinking about employability instead of the misplaced focus on employment - by running deeply informative (and very funny) interactive events that get young people engaged in the idea of doing what you love and loving what you do, and how adding value each day to an employer can be extremely fulfilling and rewarding.
Our founder and Chief Executive Johnny Rich is a though-leader in the world of higher education. HEPI published his commissioned paper Employability: Degrees of Value, which calls for higher education to improve graduate employability. The report is published as part of the HEPI series of polemical Occasional Papers. Click here to read the report in a new window. |
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embedding employabilty into the curriculum
How do we embed employability into the curriculum with a common language that engages and excites young people?
That is the question Push founder and chairman Johnny Rich explores in this 20 minute talk at The University of Greenwich, to an audience of academics, WP & outreach staff. Employability skills can be a droll subject to the uninitiated (or even the initiated who talk about it regularly), and it is more often than not confused with employment skills (the traits needed to apply for and successfully get a job).
That is the question Push founder and chairman Johnny Rich explores in this 20 minute talk at The University of Greenwich, to an audience of academics, WP & outreach staff. Employability skills can be a droll subject to the uninitiated (or even the initiated who talk about it regularly), and it is more often than not confused with employment skills (the traits needed to apply for and successfully get a job).
Folks don't often associate the word 'joy' with employability, but that is precisely what Johnny is here to explain in this insightful (and funny) guide to the topic. Johnny draws on research (including his own) to back up his and Push's theory on how to develop a straight-talking language around employability for young people.
This can be relayed across the curriculum in a way that not only helps them understand what employers want, but crucially gets them excited about developing it. This is done by starting with the individual and one's uniqueness, and getting students thinking deeply about what they want from life.
This can be relayed across the curriculum in a way that not only helps them understand what employers want, but crucially gets them excited about developing it. This is done by starting with the individual and one's uniqueness, and getting students thinking deeply about what they want from life.
employability and higher education
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How do you produce an 'employable' graduate? What is it? And, is it something that affects young people's decision-making when choosing a university (or even to go in the first place?). In an article for Pearson, Our Chief Executive, Johnny Rich, argues that "higher education is good at producing employable students...the problem is that it is all a bit of a mystery".
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