Abstract
This paper explores storytelling as a tool for employability and reflective practice within Initial Teacher Education (ITE) for the Further Education (FE) sector. Trainee teachers were invited to create personal story artefacts to illustrate their professional development during a teacher education programme. They were encouraged to employ innovative and creative methods, including digital and visual media such as video blogs, storyboards, and other multimodal artefacts. These artefacts served as storytelling prompts for an oral assessment in which trainees reflected on their achievement of professional standards and explored how storytelling might function as a distinctive personal selling point for employability. A small-scale qualitative case study was used to capture subjective interpretations of experience. Drawing on experiential learning theory, storytelling was positioned as a reflective process for articulating challenges, achievements, and growth. Preliminary findings suggest that storytelling enhances confidence, creativity, and digital literacy, enabling trainees to evidence the meeting of professional standards more authentically. The study concludes that storytelling offers an engaging and effective approach for developing employability, reflective capacity, and professional identity among FE trainee teachers.