“Fluency is exactly what we need as an answer to job accessibility for young people”

-Amy Wilson, Together We’re Better

26 million young people in developed countries are without work

Number of young people without work has grow 30% since 2007Source: OECD, 2014

Why we exist

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Why is Getting Digital important?

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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.

What we do

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Learn: Modules and lessons

49 lessons in 16 modules presently:

eg Digital FundamentalsAdvanced Social MediaOn-Page SEOWordPressEmail Marketing CampaignsGoogle AnalyticsDigital Employability

+ roadmap of future content including Paid Search, Mobile Marketing and HTML/CSS Basics.www.fluency.io

Learn: Curated resources

Best-in-class curated resources from the web allow us to:

1. Work with subject experts2. Keep content up-to-date3. 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.

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Learn: Quizzes and reflections

Short-term recall is tested with in-lesson quizzes or reflections.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Coming soon: better way of recruiting

Employer posts job

Employer finds right candidate

Platform shortlists candidate with right

skills

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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

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Testimonials from our learners

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Where are our learners now?

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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

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MATCHMAKING SKILLS

CHALLENGES

Competition

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Sinead Mac ManusCEO and co-founder(13 years of SMEs, Domain expertise)

Ian AndersonCTO and co-founder(17 Years developing

web applications)

Rachel DwyerSales and Marketing

(Young person)

Maxine CraigCommunity Manager

(Young person)

Team & advisors

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PressIndustry recognition

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Access to wrk

The vision

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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.

Contact:Sinead Mac Manus | CEO

sinead@fluency.io

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