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.Tom has worked for Reed at Board level for over 19 years and his operational expertise spans the commercial recruitment, welfare-to-work, skills and business support sectors. He also set up and ran for a number of years Reed's internal shared services centre.

From his home in rural Stirlingshire Tom travels extensively throughout the UK. Currently his main responsibilities include:

Learning-to-Work
• growing a business joint venture with the NCFE awarding body that supports Further and Higher Education students as they leave College and University to enter the labour market through a range of resources that gives students a mindset advantage when competing for jobs in the labour market and also through a brokerage service that gives students preferential access to suitable work experience / internship, job and apprenticeship opportunities.

Business Support
• leading a business joint venture with Exemplas Holdings Ltd that supports SMEs to survive and grow through the development of international trade opportunities.

After graduating from the University of Exeter with a Law degree, Tom worked as a qualified solicitor for almost ten years before moving sectors. He first joined the REED family of companies in 1997 as People & Quality Director and has held a wide variety of different Board-level roles since then.
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Executive / Principal

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Scotland

New College Durham and REED NCFE employability learning two years on…4 years ago
REED NCFE’s Baseline Employability Skills Test (BESTest) has been taken by over 15,000 students and the results are in...4 years ago
“How did REED NCFE give me the employability skills I need to progress?”4 years ago
What makes a Learner Job Ready?4 years ago
Successful Employer Engagement4 years ago
Learner-led Employer Engagement4 years ago
How can you measure progress in employability skills 5 years ago
How can tutors deliver employability skills effectively?5 years ago
REED NCFE response to the ESE review of Careers Guidance5 years ago
Effectively preparing learners for work experience5 years ago

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New College Durham and REED NCFE employability learning two years on…

Lindsay Deswert, one of the lead practitioners from New College Durham:

REED NCFE’s Baseline Employability Skills Test (BESTest) has been taken by over 15,000 students and the results are in...

Since its launch six months ago REED NCFE’s Baseline Employability Skills Test (BESTest) has been taken by over 15,000 students in England. The results provide a unique insight in to the employability skills profile of your students and, more importantly, tells us what we all want to know; what specifically are the main employability skills challenges faced by your students?

“How did REED NCFE give me the employability skills I need to progress?”

In previous articles I have looked at ways to overcome some of the challenges of preparing learners for the workplace. This time, though, maybe you would like to hear from learners themselves.

What makes a Learner Job Ready?

Despite the UK’s economy recording a 12th consecutive quarter of growth, the job market is as competitive as ever and for young people the statistics are somewhat alarming. Excluding young people not in full-time education, 414,000 people aged 16-24 were unemployed in January-March 2016, highlighting just how competitive the jobs market is for 16-24 year olds in the UK.

Learner-led Employer Engagement

Most Colleges that I work with are rightly obsessed about putting their learners first. Making sure that the best interests of learners are right at the heart of everything they do.

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