Role Model Event at Stoke-on-Trent College

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly. Combined they employ 18+ people.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Palvinder Dulai for 150 students at Stoke-on-Trent College aged Age 17 - 18.

Event description

Find Your Future invites volunteers to inspire and encourage students to realise their potential and explore opportunities.

We will connect young people with relevant role models to bring graduate jobs to life for students who have the potential, but not currently the inclination, to pursue higher education including degree courses at college or university as well as higher or degree level apprenticeships.

The business ambassadors will be supported to work alongside Business in the Community and teachers in the classroom to deliver 2 interventions exploring career opportunities, the labour market and skills for career success. Businesses will have the opportunity to promote their sector, company and graduate and apprenticeship opportunities to these young people.

The day is split over 2 sessions. Session 1, business leaders will share insights, lessons and tips to motivate and inspire your students to make informed decisions about their future.

Speakers will ‘tell a story’ about their career journey:
• Subjects they studied and how these are relevant now
• What inspired them to choose their career path
• Their failures, as well as successes
• What their company does and why this is important
• What they enjoy most about their career
• Skills currently relevant in the jobs they are doing now.

Session 2 will cover
• Communication
• Social media
• Recruitment processes with a mini assessment centre activity
• A careers speed networking session

We will be offering webinar sessions to Ambassadors in advance of the delivery date, in order to prepare and go through content for each module.

Please contact either:-
Palvinder Dulai, M:07803 746618 E: palvinder.dulai@bitc.org.uk or
Nuria De La Fuente, M:07725 638028 E: nuria.delafuente@bitc.org.uk
for more information