Role Model Event at Bolton College

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly. Combined they employ 167+ people.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Palvinder Dulai for 75 students at Bolton College aged Age 16 - 18.

Event description

Inspire our students

In this session, 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.Inspire our students
(Business in the Community event)

Finding Your Future
Asks volunteers from business to inspire and encourage students to realise their potential and explore the opportunities offered by higher education pathways. 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 university as well as higher or degree level apprenticeships.
The content for the 16years + students will include the following:
• Session A – Communication and presentation skills, awareness of social media and the power of LinkedIn as a networking tool, recruitment processes including assessment days to support graduate open days and career pathways.

What will the Business Ambassadors be asked to do?
Session A - The business role models will be supported to work alongside the Learning & Development Mentors at the college and BITC. Business Ambassadors will have the opportunity to share their experiences of communication, presenting well, use of LinkedIn as a professional tool and recruitment processes including assessment days.

This is a one hour session repeated throughout the day. If you could provide 0.5 day support that would be fantastic but if you would like to stay for the full day that would be incredible.

We will be offering briefing sessions to Ambassadors in advance of the delivery date, in order to prepare and go through content for each module. on 11th & 12th February

Please contact either:-
Gaynor Anthony M:- 07810 637799 Email : Gaynor.Anthony@bitc.org.uk for more information

Business in the Community (BITC) -We are the Prince’s Responsible Business Network, existing to create healthy communities with successful business at their heart. We were born out of a response to the Toxteth and Brixton Riots in 1981. Over the years we have helped to establish the wider agenda for corporate responsibility. Today, BITC has over half of the FTSE 100 as active members, as part of a membership of 800 businesses, and reaches hundreds more through its campaigns, with over 350 business leaders taking active business roles.
Our work in Education is centred on enabling business to play its part so that every young person, particularly those facing social disadvantage, achieves in education, leading to a successful working life, thriving in business.