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 6,612+ people.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Kathleen O'Neill for 150 students at DYW Live @ E-Sgoil aged Age 11 - 17.

Event description

Inspire our students into a Career in the Digital World

As most types of jobs adopt digital technologies, there will be an increase in demand for digital literacy among workers .Today, most jobs rely on ICT products and services e.g., cloud computing, software programs, website and ecommerce. Even traditional jobs will require the ability to work with sophisticated computers. Being digitally literate will be a threshold requirement for most jobs. Speakers with a background in Digital Technologies will talk to pupils and share their valuable experience and help pupils understand what is needed to achieve this.

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.