💫 Career Accelerator is very excited to be growing our flagship programme for Neurodivergent and Disabled 18 - 30 year olds!
We are connecting 18-30 year old Neurodivergent and Disabled young people with Neurodivergent and Disabled business mentors, or allies, who work at top inclusive businesses such as Cisco, Centrica, LinkedIn, Pearson, Salesforce and more, to prepare for successful careers in professional sectors.
Career Accelerator is an award-winning social enterprise who has been supported and featured by the likes of Teach First, LinkedIn for Good, PinkNews, the Fair Education Alliance, and more. We run three different mentoring programmes, and work with over 25 business partners and over 30 school or community partners.
💫 By being a mentee on the programme you can work towards:
- Learning about relevant and aspirational career opportunities in professional sectors
- Making informed decisions about future training, employment and professional development based on personalised support,
- Building self-awareness and self-confidence to develop realistic and ambitious career goals,
- Feeling more prepared when applying for training, employment or professional development opportunities, developing your professional network by working with professionals
💫 Over the course of the programme, you will have access to the following:
- One training workshop, led by staff at Career Accelerator, to help you develop the skills necessary to be a successful mentee,
- At least 3 one-hour one-to-one mentoring sessions with a professional from a top corporate,
- Additional support from the Career Accelerator team to help you make the most of your mentoring sessions,
- An alumni network where you will have access to additional opportunities such as networking events or internship places,
- Exclusive Career Accelerator events led in partnership with our corporate partners.
We run programmes three times a year: Autumn (late-September - December), Spring (late January - April) and Summer (late April - August). You can sign up here for the January intake.
Applications are on a rolling basis and places are allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Everyone who completes this sign up form will be invited to an informal, friendly interview with Rebecca or Jhanay from Career Accelerator. All your responses in this form are confidential and won't be shared with anyone else. For more information email Jhanay, Youth Programme Officer, at jhanay@careeraccelerator.io
