Employers
Schemes & Initiatives
Schemes & Initiatives
Apprenticeships
Social Contract Programme
Virtual Mentoring
Community Employment Plans
Skills Bootcamps
Graduate Recruitment
Apprenticeships
We run initiatives and schemes to help employers unlock their apprenticeship levy to enable small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), social enterprises and charities to access unused funds in order to start or develop their own apprenticeship schemes.
Find out how you can support SMEs, social enterprises and charities in Oxfordshire at no extra cost to your pay bill.
Become a virtual mentor
Our OxGROW virtual mentoring platform helps people (18+) who are looking for support and guidance from a mentor on how to successfully navigate the challenging world of job seeking.
If you have advice and experience you would like to share by becoming a mentor, your knowledge could be invaluable to a mentee. The approximate time commitment is only 1 hour per week, and you are able to manage availability during busy periods.
Please contact skills@oxfordshirelep.com if you would like to sign up to be a mentor.
Community
Employment Plans
Community Employment Plans (CEPs) aim to enable better access to job and training opportunities for local people.
Skills Bootcamps
OxLEP Skills is leading a programme of activity set to make a major impact on employment opportunities across the county. Our £1.7million Skills Bootcamps programme – part of the Department for Education’s ‘Skills for Life’ activity will be delivered between the summer of 2024 and March 2025.
Graduate Recruitment
To retain graduate talent by inspiring them to see the incredible choices available in Oxfordshire, we have created this ‘Keys to Your Future’ video in collaboration with the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University:
Both Oxford Brookes and University of Oxford have created careers portals to raise their students’ awareness of the corporate world and help their professional development.
Oxford Brookes
(working in collaboration with JobTeaser):
Employers can create a company profile and post jobs free of charge: exclusively visible for students and graduates at Oxford Brookes. By adding an employer profile, it will improve the chance of attracting top talent, as students and alumni will have more visibility to a company, even if they don’t have any current job vacancies.
Next steps:
- Register and create your company profile! Here you can post videos, pictures and team info to highlight your company culture. Students can follow your company and stay up to date with new offers and activities.
- After confirming your password via email, you will have permanent access to your Company account.
- Add your jobs/ internships/ work placements etc.
- Log in any time to manage, adjust, duplicate or resubmit your job vacancies.
- Stay up to date of the views and applications per job post.
University of Oxford
The Careers Service at the University of Oxford offers a wide range of services to support organisations of all sizes at any stage of the recruitment process. Through the Careers Service, you can:
- Advertise your opportunities on the CareerConnect platform accessing the diverse Oxford University talent pool.
- Attend sector-specific and graduate careers fairs and meet students in person.
- Host an event and introduce your organisation to interested students.
- Offer internships through the Summer Internship Programme offering full-time work for 2-12 weeks, the Micro-Internship Programme offering voluntary learning and development opportunities for 2-5 days, or the Crankstart Internship Programme offering internships or work shadowing placements to undergraduates from low-income backgrounds.
- Get a fresh perspective from Oxford students who can collaborate with you on a project through the Careers Service’s experiential learning programmes such as the Oxford Strategy Challenge and the Student Consultancy.
- Open only to Oxford University students, researchers and alumni, CareerConnect is where you can list events and advertise jobs and internships.
To find out more about how to promote your organisation at the University of Oxford, get in touch with the Student and Employer Engagement Team on recruiters@careers.ox.ac.uk
The Social Contract
The Social Contract is a £1.7million programme of activity funded by the government’s Contain Outbreak Management Fund via Oxfordshire County Council and led by OxLEP Skills. The aim is to address the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic related to the impacts of health and wellbeing through unemployment, barriers to employment, education and training for those most impacted i.e., young people (ages 16-24 years), minority ethnic communities, those furthest from the labour market and the over 50s.