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Phoenix Insights Online Event: Work in progress – the value of adult careers guidance

Posted: 12th February 2025

We are delighted to invite you to our webinar that will explore the importance of adult careers guidance and discuss the findings of our new report. Drawing on academic experts, policy makers and career guidance practitioners, we have developed new economic modelling to understand the size of the prize of better adult career guidance, and steps to make the change a reality.

At a time of rapid labour market and demographic change, ensuring adults have access to high quality careers guidance to support them into the right jobs is key. There are over seven million adults in the UK who are either looking to change jobs, at risk in their current role, or who are ‘very unhappy’ in their work.

As a society and an economy there is an overwhelming case to improve people’s careers options and opportunities through effective  careers guidance . We have a huge opportunity with the new Jobs and Careers Service to better match people’s skills to demand in the labour market. Closing the gap between the UK’s skills mismatch with that of leading OECD countries would be worth £15bn to the economy – three times the total currently spent on adult skills.

Event details:
Date: 5th March 2025
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM

Please register using the link below to join the event’s live steam

Register Here

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