Succeed Academy Information

The Skills to Succeed Academy is an innovative online employability learning solution, created specifically to meet the needs of jobseekers. It has a design appealing to 15-24 year olds but the content is relevant to all ages. It offers 42 hours of highly interactive online training and support materials, that take learners through the entire journey of finding a job, via the Antarctic and a London bus. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Our desire to create the Academy, was part of our global Corporate Citizenship initiative, Skills to Succeed, focused on supporting people globally to build skills for employment. As part of Skills to Succeed, we are committed to helping 3 million people around the world to build the skills required to get a job or build a business by 2020. In the UK, our challenge was to create a programme with the scale and reach to really make an impact locally. We wanted to create a solution that provided as many young job seekers as possible with the right skills to understand career choices, find a job and sustain employment. And with our extensive technology and learning expertise, the natural answer was to create and deliver an online learning solution. Hence, the Skills to Succeed Academy was born. We realised, however, that if we were to create a truly inspiring, engaging and relevant solution, we could not achieve our ambitions alone. So we convened a number of partners, including employability subject matter experts, a creative communications and learning agency, innovative software specialists and, most importantly, young job seekers themselves to work alongside us. Our partners, listed below, provided much of their support on a Pro Bono basis. Their expertise and generosity of time and spirit has resulted in the fantastic solution we have here - the Skills to Succeed Academy. We cannot thank them enough for their dedication and support. To find out more about Accenture and what we do, please visit accenture.com