JOIN OUR FREE WEBINAR: Your Business, Their Future: Building a Legacy of Talent Through Skills Validation
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Forward-thinking employers are using student skills validation to build tomorrow's talent pipeline. See how the approach is working, and how to bring it to your organisation.
Live Online Event | Date: Tuesday 21 July 2026 | Time: 1:00pm | Duration: 45 minutes (including 10 mins Q&A)
Most employers can tell you how many young people they "engaged with" last year. Almost none can prove what happened next. In a world where boards demand data, ESG reports require evidence, and DE&I targets need proof, that gap is no longer defensible.
Forward-thinking employers are already moving beyond headcounts. They are formally validating and badging the skills young people build through work experience, T-level placements, and outreach programmes, creating industry-validated credentials that live on that student's profile for life.
This is the innovation shift in future workforce building and skills-based hiring. The question is not whether student skills validation will become standard, but whether your organisation will lead it or play catch-up.
Join our Webinar
Join us for a free, live, 45-minute panel discussion where two very different organisations share how they solved the same challenge.
Ben Mason (CEO, globalbridge) hosts a candid conversation with:
Samantha Higgins, Early Careers Outreach Manager at British Airways
Joe Pusey, Partnership and Social Value Manager at Suez
Hear how British Airways and Suez moved from "we ran a work experience week" to credentialed, lasting skills proof. Two industries, two angles, same conclusion: validated student skills build the pipeline, future-proof the brand, and give leadership the data story they need. You'll walk away with real insight on what it took to implement, what changed internally, and what early movers will have that latecomers will not.
Webinar Takeaways:
Replace headcounts with board-ready impact data and a pre-qualified talent pipeline
Turn CSR and social value spend into a measurable strategic advantage
Future-proof your programmes against the Skills Passport agenda and the Milburn Review shift
Meet DE&I and ESG targets with credible, data-backed evidence of social mobility outcomes
Give students validated skills proof that travels with them for life and satisfies Gatsby Benchmarks
Employers skills validation for students gives you a data story and a talent pipeline, and gives students proof of their abilities they can leverage before they even graduate.
This session shows you exactly how to do it.
Who Is This Webinar For?
Early Talent Managers, CSR, DE&I, and Workforce Development Leads at mid-to-large employers running school and college engagement, T-level placements, work experience, or apprenticeship programmes who are under pressure to prove impact to the board, not just count attendees.
Senior HR and People Leaders driving skills-based hiring strategy who want to understand how validated student skills feed directly into their future talent acquisition pipeline and employer brand.
School and College Careers Leaders, Head Teachers, and MAT Workforce Leads who want to move beyond certificates of attendance and prove real employability outcomes for their students.
Meet the Panel
Ben founded globalbridge to move the global conversation beyond exam grades alone. He is pioneering a multimedia Digital Record of Achievement that evidences a student’s emerging skills and character in real-time.
Under Ben’s leadership, globalbridge has developed a unique multi-stakeholder approach:
Students build a lifelong record of achievement, ensuring their unique skills are visible and evidenced to close the future talent gap.
Schools gain the critical data required for inspection reporting and statutory requirements.
Parents receive a transparent, real-time view of their child’s holistic progress and potential.
A Sunday Times Top 100 Entrepreneur and Business Cloud UK Top 10 EdTech innovator, Ben has addressed the OECD Global Forum and presented in both the UK House of Commons and the House of Lords. Through globalbridge, he is ensuring every student’s unique skill set is visible, valued, and ready for the future.
Sam leads the design and delivery of the organisation's Emerging Talent outreach strategy, connecting education and industry to build a more integrated early careers pipeline.
She specialises in student engagement, apprenticeship recruitment, work experience and talent pathway development, working closely with schools and colleges to attract diverse, high-potential candidates into early careers programmes.
Drawing on strong external networks, she provides market insight that helps align education pathways with industry needs, supporting inclusive, demand-led approaches to workforce development from first engagement through to career entry.
Joe has worked in the waste and resources sector for eight years, delivering circular economy and social value projects for public-sector disposal authorities and the private sector.
Throughout his career he has created and managed apprenticeship positions, working with a range of stakeholders including charities, local authorities and corporate customers.
He has worked within the field of reuse and circular economy for several years and is now applying that knowledge to the waste electricals sector.
He is passionate about promoting green skills and building the workforce needed to deliver a circular economy.
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