Fluency -information slide deck - December 2014
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Fluency is a digital skills training platform that aims to increase job accessibility for young people. Their platform provides online training modules in digital skills like social media, SEO, and analytics. Completing lessons, quizzes, and projects allows users to build a portfolio showcase. Fluency also connects users to job opportunities through a jobs board. Their goal is to help address the growing problem of youth unemployment by providing digital skills training and access to entry-level jobs in growing tech sectors.
Fluency -information slide deck - December 2014
- 1. “Fluency is exactly what we need as an answer to job accessibility for young people” -Amy Wilson, Together We’re Better
- 2. 26 million young people in developed countries are without work Number of young people without work has grow 30% since 2007 Source: OECD, 2014 Why we exist www.fluency.io
- 3. Why is Getting Digital important? www.fluency.io Digital skills are job skills. Most jobs today require a level of digital fluency - even in non- digital roles. With digital skills, young people are 25% more likely to find work and earn on average 10% more when in work. Over 50% of jobs in the last ten years in the UK were created by 6% of companies, mostly in the tech sector. In the next 10 years in London alone, it is predicted that the tech sector will create 46,000 jobs. An extra 745,000 people with digital skills will be needed by 2017.
- 5. Learn: Modules and lessons 49 lessons in 16 modules presently: eg Digital Fundamentals Advanced Social Media On-Page SEO WordPress Email Marketing Campaigns Google Analytics Digital Employability + roadmap of future content including Paid Search, Mobile Marketing and HTML/CSS Basics.www.fluency.io
- 6. Learn: Curated resources Best-in-class curated resources from the web allow us to: 1. Work with subject experts 2. Keep content up-to-date 3. Work with partners to host their own learning content and create a bespoke learning journey Resources are embedded into content where possible or presented in an overlay for great user experience. www.fluency.io
- 7. Learn: Quizzes and reflections Short-term recall is tested with in- lesson quizzes or reflections. www.fluency.io
- 8. Learn: Challenges But we believe that you only really learn digital by doing it. Challenges are interspersed within lessons: a learner can put what they have learned into practice straightaway. www.fluency.io
- 9. Do: Practice with Projects Projects are bigger pieces of work that a learner can complete to gain real-world experience and build their portfolio of work. Projects can be practice projects - bringing together the learning in a lesson - or projects posted by a business, further linking the learner to a potential job. www.fluency.io
- 10. Showcase: Profile Users profiles showcase: ● The learner’s activity on the site in a dashboard ● Their challenges and projects (if they choose to make them public) ● Any other web-based work they upload ● Their Open Badges www.fluency.io
- 11. Access to work: Jobs board But we don’t think it’s enough to just upskill young people when what they really need is work, so the last piece of puzzle is our Jobs Board and weekly bulletin connecting them to the best entry- level jobs in digital. www.fluency.io
- 12. Coming soon: better way of recruiting Employer posts job Employer finds right candidate Platform shortlists candidate with right skills www.fluency.io
- 13. Blended learning: Intensives Part-time, blended learning 4-week courses to learn and gain work experience in digital skills. ● 6 hours live workshop each week ● Online learning with daily deliverables ● Industry guests on Hangouts ● Opportunity to work on real client briefs ● Meet and greet with employers at end of programme www.fluency.io
- 14. Testimonials from our learners www.fluency.io
- 15. Where are our learners now? www.fluency.io
- 16. Partners “The Prince's Trust partnered with Fluency to deliver digital training to young people on the Get Digital programme. The programme was incredibly successful and provided young people with an amazing array of digital skills entirely transferable into the workplace. Based on the skills learnt, many of the young people have been able to move into great jobs in areas such as digital media and content marketing. Fluency have determined the digital skills needed by young people and are now helping young people get into jobs by shaping their inherent digital literacy to enhance their employability and chances of future success. I believe their work is of huge importance and I very highly recommend them." Spencer Ayres, formerly Head of Technology, The Prince’s Trust www.fluency.io
- 18. Sinead Mac Manus CEO and co-founder (13 years of SMEs, Domain expertise) Ian Anderson CTO and co-founder (17 Years developing web applications) Rachel Dwyer Sales and Marketing (Young person) Maxine Craig Community Manager (Young person) Team & advisors www.fluency.io
- 20. Access to wrk The vision www.fluency.io We’re starting with digital skills, young people and the UK - but our vision is much bigger. We want Fluency to be the go-to platform for people all over the world who want to up-skill or retrain to get work - and for companies to find the best talent for their entry-level roles.
- 21. Contact: Sinead Mac Manus | CEO sinead@fluency.io www.fluency.io