The document discusses solutions for helping the long-term unemployed find sustainable employment. It notes that the long-term unemployed often face numerous complex issues and lack motivation, confidence and work readiness. It proposes a bespoke solution called "The Life You Want" program to build confidence, motivation and attitude through setting achievable goals. Employers would receive pre-screened, prepared candidates through the program and be involved in career awareness activities. The program aims to create real changes in beliefs and behaviors to better prepare participants for training and long-term job retention. Several program graduates provided positive testimonials on how it helped boost their self-belief and confidence.

1. Recro Consulting
What You Need To Know and Do To Get
The Long-Term Unemployed Into
Sustainable Employment

2. Recro Consulting
• Recro – employability and recruitment
solutions
• Recro improves the efficiency,
effectiveness and experience between the
workless, employers and providers
• Consultancy, delivery, training and
partnership

3. What do we know?
• Welfare reforms causing organisations and individuals real
challenges
• Worklessness is the biggest cause of child poverty
• Disadvantaged often have numerous complex issues which the
system struggles to deal with
• No blueprint for success – goalposts changing
• The system is the issue – EIF and Social Mobility APPG
• Character and resilience are huge determinants for success in
social mobility
• EQ a better indicator that IQ of career success
• Linked to family, responsibility and work
• Serious skills and talent shortages / mismatches

4. The Problem
• Hard to reach long term unemployed need some serious help
• Many are not life ready let alone work ready before they enter the
system
• People who set the essay question can’t actually answer it
• Playing the system, chasing the funding, with little ability to react
and meet genuine need through innovation
• This boils down to confidence and access
• They don’t have any aspiration, motivation or confidence
• Unrealistic to expect them to be fertile / willing to training and to be
able to hold down a job
• Employers want good people and good service
• Unfair to expect the employer to become a “social worker” and help
them with their issues
• Providers need to deliver what is needed

5. What an employer wants
• A solution to a business issue
• Cost effective, efficient and reliable
• Need good, motivated, reliable candidates
• Hire for attitude – train for skill
• Career / industry awareness, employer
branding / attraction
• Exactly the same as from any other
agency or attraction partner

6. Individuals Employers
Local
Sub-regional
National
Regional
Skills Alliance
Sector Skills
Councils
Jobcentre Plus
National
OFSTED
HEFCE
QCA
UK Commission
for employment
and skills
Small Business
Service
UFI/
learndirect
National SFA
Quality
Improvement
Agency
London Mayor
Skills and
Employment
Board
LDA Regional SFA
Local SFAs
New Deal for
Communities
Business Link
Investors in
People
Jobcentre Plus
& Providers
Connexions
33 Local
Authorities
Local Strategic
Partnerships
Other
Training
Providers
Specialist
Colleges
Schools &
6th
Form
Colleges
FE colleges
Jobcentre Plus
Employment
Zones
Universities
Learndirect
centres
DBIS DWP DfE HMT
Universities
DCLG
Train to Gain
Brokers
Employers&EmployerOrganis
TradeUnions&ProfessionalAs
IAG
Partnerships
Skills
Academies
City
Strategy
Pathfinders
Source: LDA, September 2010
The employment and skills system is complex…

7. Einstein
“the definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting
different results”

8. Everybody, Somebody, Anybody
and Nobody
This is a little story about four people named Everybody,
Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody
was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was
Everybody's job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody
realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when
Nobody did what Anybody could have done
Anon

9. Learn from the Romans

10. The Solution
• Deliver a bespoke solution to specific
needs
• The Life You Want © to create and
develop confidence, motivation, aspiration
and attitude
• Demonstrating realistic stepping stones to
get the life they want – this makes it
sustainable
• Support with coaching and mentoring

11. The Solution Cont’d
• Access to employers
• Employers receive PSL type service –
only candidates vetted and prepared
forwarded
• Reputation build on quality of service,
candidates and support
• Can be linked to CSR and talent
management programmes
• Design success from the start

12. The Life You Want ©
• Personal breakthrough, motivation and
employment programme
• Creates a real paradigm shift in belief and
behaviours
• Supplemented with coaching / mentoring
programme
• Mitigates risks for employers
• Ensures people are fertile to training and
committed to changing their lives
• Barriers removed
• Committed to a career plan of their choosing

13. What they say
• “This has opened my eyes to what my life is
really like and the changes I want to make”
• “I have learnt more in the last few hours than on
all the other employment programmes I have
ever done”
• “This course has re-instated my self belief and
given me more confidence and self worth”
• “This programme has made me very happy and
confident. People around me have noticed the
energy and power in me”

14. This is what it should look like

15. The 14 Foot Beach Ball

16. Desire

17. Q&A
Contact:
john.mcdonough@recroconsulting.co.uk
Mob: 07837 663 969
www.recroconsulting.co.uk