Access to employment

We will help people gain access to vital skills they need to get into work and support entrepreneurs to scale businesses and create employment opportunities.

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Volunteering & Community
VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: Sabrina Boanu-Williams Works with the Thameside Prison Initiative
Through her work with the Thameside Prison Initiative, Sabrina is successfully helping prisoners gain the skills they need to find meaningful employment after release.
Corporate Responsibility
VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: Hosoi Masatomo – Colleagues in the Community
Together with Teach For Japan, Hosoi is improving education for children in regions suffering from extreme poverty due to the decline in industry, resulting in education being neglected.
Education & Workforce Development
VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: The JOBLINGE Mentors Team Helps Provide Access to Employment
Colleagues in Hamburg and Frankfurt partnered with the JOBLINGE Foundation to support over 124 people to find a job through mentoring and CV workshops, achieving 77% job placements as a result.
Volunteering & Community
VIDEO | Barclays Citizenship Awards: Team CXWorks - Access to Employment
Team CXWorks partnered with Tech Impact to develop a curriculum for a call centre training programme in Nevada to support unemployed young adults.
Corporate Responsibility
Barclays Encore! Programme Reboots Careers
After spending more than twenty years as a Senior Portfolio Manager on Wall Street, Maria Spinelli decided to take a break. She found herself reenergized after her professional sabbatical and desired to return to the workforce, but contemplated whether to pursue a new career path or leverage her asset management expertise.
Corporate Responsibility
VIDEO | How Barclays Is Giving Young People Skills to Rebound and Rise
The Rebound Program, supported by Barclays, helps to combat issues related to youth un- and underemployment, financial literacy, and professional development. Since 2014, Barclays has supported nonprofit organisation Good Shepherd Services to help tackle challenges faced by many of New York City families.
Corporate Responsibility
Barclays Dare to Be: Enhancing Employment Skills in Singapore
Emma Guy and Anubhav Mehrotra helped create the Dare To Be programme in Singapore. The eight-week programme, delivered by Barclays in partnership with non-profit organisations, supports young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to develop their work skills and job prospects. The co-founders tell us about the satisfaction they get from widening students’ horizons.
Research & Reports
Robots at the Gate: Barclays Report on Technology and the Future of Work
New technology is changing our work and social lives at unprecedented speed and intensity. Leaps in technological advancement are nothing new, and innovation often results in incredible step changes in the home and the workplace: the printing presses of the 1400s widened access to books (and therefore knowledge) for the first time; the Industrial Revolution’s mechanisation led to an explosion in both industrial output and urbanisation; cars, aeroplanes and the internet have connected people around the world like never before.
Education & Workforce Development
How Barclays Helps Prepare People for the Workplace
Corporate Responsibility
Five Steps to Successful Dynamic Working

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