Role Model Event at DYW Live @ E-Sgoil

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly. Combined they employ 63+ people.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Peter Murray for 150 students at DYW Live @ E-Sgoil aged Age 11 - 18.

Event description

Languages in the World of Work

This session will demonstrate to pupils how studying a language can open a world of opportunities to them. Volunteers who use or have used languages in their working life will come and give a short career talk.
Speakers will share insights, lessons, and tips to motivate and inspire your students to make informed decisions about their future. This will develop the skills of young people helping them to gain a broader understanding relating to gaining and sustaining employment.

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.