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Essential Skills in Business
KX Recruit
How can local recruiters build essential skills to bridge education and employment?
World of Work Week
Recruitment
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We're incredibly proud to have achieved Silver Excellence Mark status with Skills Builder. Essential skills are at the heart of everything we do, whether supporting local residents into employment, helping employers access diverse talent, or delivering initiatives such as World of Work Week on behalf of Urban Partners to inspire the next generation. Our partnership with Skills Builder has strengthened our ability to measure and demonstrate impact, ensuring that the individuals and businesses we support are better equipped to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Chloe Tarrant-Stanton, Director
To give approximately 100 young people across Camden and Islington early, practical exposure to local industry sectors, helping them build, articulate, and track essential skills through engaging workplace challenges and opportunities for self-reflection.
To support local job seekers to articulate their essential skills effectively during application and interview stages, while helping local employers recruit fairly against transparent skill benchmarks.
To build organisational capacity so that recruitment consultants, session facilitators, and local employer partners feel confident in modeling, identifying, and praising essential skill steps during outreach activities.
79 students took part in World of Work Week 2026
5 people from 5 different Urban Partners businesses were upskilled to embed the Universal Framework language into their workshops
Problem Solving saw the greatest increase over the World of Work week
The Skills Builder Excellence Standards set clear guidelines for best practice across a business or team.
Business or teams who achieve these indicators work towards achieving an Excellence Mark accreditation.
The Recruitment Excellence Standards are outlined below.
