At 4front Partners we are convinced that, as a sector, we can do more with how we engage with businesses to help participants find employment. This sector contains unbelievable expertise and niche knowledge knowledge that if repackaged for businesses, is of great value to local employers.
Though our business engagement offering we help organisations get more focused on how they can work more closely and successfully with businesses to create opportunities for their programme participants. Essentially, business-to-business sales for employability!
As well as supporting teams in talent attraction and inclusive recruitment , we help your team maximise upon current employer engagement successes and are proud when we see them helping even more people into work.
We are involved with the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) Youth Employment Conference and believe it is all our responsibility to prepare the workforce of the future.
We can help you design your labour market strategy to identify and engage initially with the right target businesses.
We can then help you commission with those employers by building more meaningful relationships with them. We do this by showing your team how to offer them better business support; create tailored place approach to labour supply and demand; and by working with you to invest in the skills and approaches of your operations teams to ensure they can perform business to business activities better, improving operational performance.
Many providers have benefited from 4front Partners tailored employer engagement training and mentoring programmes to improve the capability and confidence of individual staff members. Our goal is that every advisor, coach, employer engagement consultant, and operational manager is equipped to be the very best they can be at working with employers to create opportunities for participants.
We even have training courses for programme participants, candidates and job seekers for them to take ownership of their own employer interaction! We help them with how to talk to businesses and what the needs of the labour market are, so they can better prepare for job success.
Those in policy and commissioners are also on our radar, and we work wth them to share how our industry better integrates employers into programme design and delivery. We guide Government policy makers to design labour supply identified solutions.
If you are a provider that needs to get more out of how you and your team partner with businesses, then get in touch to see how we can support your journey.