Welcome to Scotland’s Early Careers Marketplace Update #7

Expecting Purposeful Candidates To Apply?

Join our early careers marketplace and begin to attract candidates and communicate with influencers across Scotland.

Help candidates understand your business, culture and early career programmes. Excite potential candidates about the experiences they will have, assure them of the support they will receive, and enable candidates that apply to be purposeful about a career with you.

A marketplace profile is free of charge and can be upgraded to one of our candidate attraction subscriptions should you need support with your next campaign.

Early Careers Methodology 

Our Early Careers Methodology “Attraction, Attachment and Aspiration for All” has developed over many years of market activation and early careers guidance practice – learning from what works – providing a simple formulation in support of early career development for young people and also for our partners.

Scottish Careers Week is back

7 to 11 November 2022. With even more events, activities and resources, we invite people of all ages to take part. Discover the opportunities and career support available in Scotland to help shape your future.

EARLY CAREERS MARKETPLACE UPDATES

Open University to deliver vital upskilling opportunities for Scottish businesses

Businesses in Scotland can now apply for free training from the UK's largest university to help upskill their workforces.

The Economist promote ‘Topical Talks’ in classrooms
Topical Talk is a programme from The Economist Educational Foundation.

It supports weekly discussions about current affairs.

ScotGov - Labour Market Trends: September 2022
Employment, unemployment and economic inactivity trends, sourced from the Labour Force Survey for Scotland.

The Prince’s Trust launch the Class of Covid
The 'Class of Covid' - a generation whose confidence, education and opportunities were stolen by the global pandemic and resultant lockdowns.

Universities Scotland’s articulation of the sector’s principles

Throughout Spring/Summer of 2022, the Scottish Government is consulting on a set of principles for the further and higher education sector to define ‘tertiary’ education.

Relaunch of Connected Scotland
Connected Scotland is a partnership bringing together universities and partner organisations

Scotland’s new ‘national robotarium’ opens
Scotland’s brand new ‘national robotarium’ has been unveiled for the first time – with a major international research and engineering partnership. The £22.4m facility at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University will partner with Tata Consultancy Services on applied engineering and joint research across multiple disciplines.

How to Make Sure You Keep Growing and Learning

Small, everyday experiments can help us reach our goals and get better at the skills that are important to us.

1,000 jobs moved from London to Scotland under UK Civil Service shakeup

Almost 1,000 London-based Civil Service jobs have moved to Scotland since March 2020, the Cabinet Office has announced.

Scotland's top 100 private limited companies have been revealed.

The latest list from professional services firm Grant Thornton shows that food and drink companies dominate, with the majority based in the west of the country – a region that is home to nearly half (47) of the companies.

Who are Scotland's Top Employers?
The Herald Top Employer Awards have been announced and amongst them are many outstanding examples of businesses where care for employees is embedded firmly into the culture of the organisation.

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