Employment and Skills

Business in the Community (BITC) enables businesses to create the conditions for every person to achieve a successful and rewarding working life. To achieve this, business needs to consider how they prepare people for the workplace through education and ensure they are creating good jobs that are accessible to all.

There are two strands to BITC’s employment and skills work. Education, where BITC supports organisations to help people transition into the jobs of the future; and inclusive employment and good work, with BITC working with businesses to ensure good jobs are accessible to all; increasing levels of pay and ensuring good terms and conditions of all employment.

Find out more about Business in the Community’s work on employment and skills.

Employment and Skills sit under Healthy Communities, one part of BITC’s Responsible Business Map^TM, which guides our members on a journey of continuous improvement, working across the responsible business agenda.

Business in the Community is a network of progressive businesses that look beyond the profit motive, who want to make a difference within society and who are prepared to collaborate to bring about change.

Learn more about joining Business in the Community.

Case Studies

Youth Employment Initiative helps Caitlin build confidence

Find out how BITC’s youth employment initiative YEI, and BITC member Next helped Caitlin build her confidence and secure a role in retail.

Blogs

Reforming the Apprenticeship Levy

Kate Carr, Campaign Manager, Employment and Skills, on why it’s time that the Apprenticeship Levy was reformed.

Case Studies

Rosina Secures Role with the Support of BITC Job Coach

Hear Rosina’s story on how working with a Business in the Community (BITC) Job Coach helped her secure the right job for her.

Case Studies

Ricoh is Opening Doors to disadvantaged talent

A longstanding advocate of inclusive recruitment, Ricoh was one of the first employers to sign up to Business in the Community’s (BITC) Opening Doors campaign.

Case Studies

Job Coaching Boosts Staff Wellbeing at Boots, Wales

Boots has been at the forefront of Business in the Community’s (BITC) Job Coaching Programme across Wales, with training and support offered to colleagues who in turn are helping to build a more inclusive workforce within their local communities.

Fact Sheets

Supporting Age Inclusive Recruitment and Retention

By using inclusive recruitment and retention practices, employers can fill vacancies and skills gaps from overlooked 50+ talent.

Case Studies

How Siemens is Upskilling Future Talent

Working with Business in the Community (BITC), Siemens is helping to upskill the community as part of its own journey towards a Just Transition.

Fact Sheets

Building Skills to Deliver a Fair and Inclusive Transition

What skills are necessary to make our ambition of business leading a Just Transition, a fair and inclusive journey to a net zero a reality?

Fact Sheets

Rebooting Lifelong Learning For a Skilled Workforce

This factsheet collates key statistics to show employer investment in lifelong learning. It sets out what is happening right now and what will happen if businesses do not reboot their approaches to lifelong learning.

Fact Sheets

ClickSilver Celebrates 10 Years

A lot has changed over the last decade, but we continue to make technology as straightforward as possible for individuals by connecting them with a volunteer mentor from our member businesses. ClickSilver celebrating 10 years.