An app by Bear & Willow HR
Employment Managed
Caring, confidential support for wherever you are in work, or on your way to it.
Caring, confidential support for wherever you are in work, or on your way to it.
Build your CV, see what you could earn, find local courses and get answers any time of day.
See the app → For keyworkers and servicesA dashboard that shows you what's happening between appointments, and gives you the evidence your commissioners ask for.
See the dashboard →Free to download for anyone looking for work, changing career or building their confidence.
Traditional employment support is built around appointments: an hour with a support worker, in an office, often a week or two apart. In the time between, progress can easily stall.
Job applications get put off and forgotten. CVs go unwritten, out of date or unchecked. And the questions you feel embarrassed to ask out loud often go unasked altogether.
Employment Managed fills that gap. It puts practical, confidential support in the palm of your hand, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no appointment needed.
Employment Managed looks at your experience, qualifications and skills, and compares them against real job roles. It shows you the roles you already qualify for, and the ones you're not far away from.
For each role, you can see a potential wage, based on official pay data for that kind of work in your area. Where a role is within reach, it shows the qualification that would get you there, and where you can study for it locally.
It turns a vague hope of doing better into a clear, realistic goal you can work towards.
Your experience, qualifications and skills, all in one place.
Jobs you qualify for now, and jobs you're only a step or two away from.
What those roles pay locally, and the next step to reach them.
From your skills, work history and qualifications, with a personal statement, and updated whenever anything changes.
It reads the websites of local colleges and training providers, rather than sending you to a national search page.
How to explain a gap. What to say about a criminal record. A health condition. What happens to benefits when work starts.
Targets set with your advisor, ticked off between appointments, with progress you can both see.
Before the job search, there is often a bigger question: what do I actually want to do, and what stands between me and it.
Thinking about self-employment? The Launchpad Kit is included free in the app: 12 plain-English templates and guides to help you start trading legally and confidently.
Want extra support? The app shows you the nearest employment service, where you can get a code to unlock it.
Your participants use the app. Your advisors use the dashboard. Everything a participant does between appointments, from targets ticked off to applications sent, shows up for their keyworker as it happens.
That means fewer catch-up conversations, earlier warning when someone is struggling, and evidence of progress for your commissioners without the extra paperwork.
Anyone can download Employment Managed. But to unlock the premium features, a participant needs a code, and that code comes from an employment service like yours.
When your service has an account, the app lists you as the nearest place to get one. So people in your area who download the app are pointed straight to you.
The app doesn't replace your advisors. It sends people to them, and keeps them engaged in between.
CVs updated, applications tracked, targets completed. Walk into every appointment already knowing where things stand.
Agree goals together, then send them straight to the participant's app as a shared plan you can both follow.
Activity and outcomes are recorded automatically, ready for case management and reporting to your commissioners.
Appointments you book appear in the participant's app, with optional reminders on their own phone.
Correct personal details, and record where a Work Capability Assessment is not needed, booked or completed.
Keep a minimal record in the dashboard for anyone you support who doesn't use the app, so your caseload stays in one place.
Participants can record the barriers to work they want to discuss, including health, confidence or circumstances, so nothing has to be said out loud before they're ready.
Advisor and participant agree targets around those barriers, and both can see progress against the plan.
With the full picture, advisors can make the right adjustments early, rather than finding out several appointments in.
Stored in UK/EU data centres and encrypted in transit and at rest.
You'll never pay for staff accounts. Every advisor, manager and team member gets dashboard access at no extra cost.
Pricing is shaped around the size of your caseload, and the price per participant reduces as your caseload grows.
Tell us about your service and we'll put together a price and a short demo for your team.
Employers can advertise vacancies in the app, and people apply with the CV they have already built. For a limited time this is free.
If you run a food bank, a job club, a wellbeing service, a course, a community group or anything that helps people locally, we would like to list you in the app, at no cost. You own your entry, and you can change it or remove it whenever you like.