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One practical project can create many employability stories.
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Build skills.Tell your story.Take the next step.
A friendly place for young people to explore ideas, recognise their strengths and prepare for work, training or further learning.
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£2,000 awardedDesign for Futures
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Skills into opportunity
Skills into opportunityStart here
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Young people
Create a strong CV, practise spoken answers and build a personalised plan for interview day.
Explore free support → 02Schools and councils
Review programme options, delivery requirements, safeguarding and current assurance.
Plan a conversation → 03Funders and employers
See the funded programme, evidence approach and practical ways to contribute.
Explore partnership →Explore
Start with curiosity.
Ask questions, investigate a need and compare possible approaches.
Build and test
Turn an idea into evidence.
Plan, make, test, notice what did not work and improve the outcome.
Explain and progress
Tell the story clearly.
Describe your contribution, the decisions you made and what you learned, ready for a CV, application or interview.
Built from education and enterprise
Employability tools designed by a qualified teacher and company founder.
Grant Parry combines secondary teaching experience with founding and directing The Hwb Collective CIC, helping the tools stay practical, honest and understandable for young people.
Start your career
Choose the employability tool you need today.
Explore possible roles, build a CV, prepare for an interview or preview the spoken practice app. Clear labels show what is live and what is still being developed.
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Live on websiteFind your direction
Career Direction Quiz
Get five UK career ideas with subject, qualification and training-route suggestions. No account and nothing saved.
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Live nowCreate your CV
Free CV Builder
Turn genuine experience, education and strengths into a professional CV, then receive the PDF and a private edit link by email.
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Website toolBuild your plan
Interview Preparation Toolkit
Research a role and create a personalised checklist, evidence bank and interview preparation pack.
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In developmentPractise out loud
Interview Practice App
Answer role-relevant questions by speaking and review a transcript to improve clarity, structure and evidence.
These tools support exploration and preparation. They do not make career or hiring decisions, invent experience or guarantee a job offer.
Funded programme
Award confirmed£2,000 awarded to put useful tools into young people’s hands.
The Community Matters Fund supports immediate-use employability and STEM resources: the four career apps, the WJEC Design and Technology revision suite, printed guidance and responsible public access.
Some in-person activity may follow where a suitable partner, venue, staffing, safeguarding and delivery plan are confirmed. No session is advertised as confirmed until those arrangements are in place. Expenditure, feedback and delivery evidence will be recorded for monitoring.
Practical STEM into employability
Make something. Recognise the evidence.
Investigating, designing, making, testing and explaining can demonstrate problem-solving, planning, communication, resilience and teamwork.
Programme discussions start with the learner group, intended outcome, accessibility, safeguarding, venue, risk controls and evidence requirements. Delivery is scoped before it is promised.
Investigatecuriosity and researchDesignideas and decisionsMakeaccuracy and organisationTestresilience and improvementExplaincommunication and reflection
STEM learning in South Wales
Based in Mumbles, supporting young people and partners across the region.
The Hwb Collective connects practical STEM, WJEC Design and Technology revision and employability support. We welcome realistic partnership discussions with schools, colleges, youth services, councils and community organisations in Swansea and across South Wales.
Latest updates
Follow the work as it develops.
Welsh provision expands with community proofreading
The same website layouts can now switch language in place, with a clear beta notice and an invitation to report mistakes.
Read the updateRevision tools checked against the 2026 WJEC specification
The three pathways have been reviewed against the new 80-mark digital Unit 1 structure and pathway content.
Read the updateClearer choices for browser storage and site statistics
The privacy controls now distinguish user preferences, aggregate hosting statistics and advertising trackers that are not used.
Read the updateImmediate-use tools lead the Design for Futures delivery
The funded work prioritises tools young people can use now, while any in-person activity remains subject to confirmed delivery arrangements.
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Built for responsible partnership
Useful ambition, honest status.
Funders and public bodies need more than a polished homepage. Our Trust Centre separates current controls from work still in progress, including governance, safeguarding, privacy, accessibility, cybersecurity and supplier information.
From Wales, with purpose
Small steps can open big futures.
HWB brings practical career support, honest guidance and a little Welsh warmth together in one place—free for people using the tools for themselves.
Help young people turn practical experience into a route forward.