Higher Level Skills Match (HLSM) Project: Developing graduate talent, supporting local business growth

If you are a local* SME, the Higher Level Skills Match (HLSM) Project will help you find employees, interns and/or project staff, and ensure they are trained and skilled in the areas your business needs to succeed and grow, both now and in the future. You will be able to access a range of training and development opportunities for you as a business leader and feedback your thoughts on what skills you and your employees need, all through one point of contact.

Birmingham City University, Aston University and Newman University, have developed the HLSM project, supported by Cannock Chase, Lichfield and Tamworth local authorities. It will provide local SMEs with bespoke graduate level skills development, recruitment and advice services, drawn from an extensive portfolio of Higher Education skills provision across all three Universities.

There is a growing gap, locally and across the UK between the skills businesses need and the skills job applicants have. The HLSM project will collaborate with local SMEs to offer solutions to this problem.

Be a part of the solution and get your voice heard.

Join our launch event to discover how you can get involved, and how the project can help you:

• find and develop the leadership, decision making, business development, enterprise and sustainable growth skills you need to grow your SME
• access the range of higher level skills which graduates and post-graduates can offer you
• contribute to the realisation of the GBSLEP’s vision, to radically redesign the local education and skills eco-system, to ensure skill provision is designed with and for business, to better meet current and future skills demand;
• contribute to, and benefit directly from, tailored employability and enterprise skills support offered to local undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates.

Event running order:

17:00 - 17:30 Registration & Refreshments

17:30 - 17:45 Welcome & Key Note

17:45 - 18:00 HLSM Project Outline

18:00 - 18:15 Question & Answer session

18:15 - 19:30 Networking with HLSM Support Specialists

Places are limited. Register for yours today.

We look forward to meeting you, and hearing your thoughts, at the Higher Level Skills Match launch event.

This project is part-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

*business address in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBS LEP) area.