Careers and Jobs Event at West Derby School

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Carmel Jones for 200 students at West Derby School aged Age 14 - 17.

Event description

West Derby School Careers Carousel for Year 9 students (ahead of them taking their options), and 6th Form students in the morning to help them to determine their career path post 18).

Our careers Carousel / Speed-Networking Event takes place over the course of the full day on December 19th 2024.

Each of our contributors will have a large desk / stall and our students will circulate in pairs around the room.

Students will have 5 minutes to talk to each of our contributors before a whistle is blown and they move on to the next stall. The students will be given questions to ask, but the majority of our contributors, during previous careers events, have found that most of our boys will freely engage in conversation. We will have approx. 25 - 30 contributors from industry, employment and careers advisors and from further education establishments.

The timings are as follows:

Period 1: 9:20am to 10:20am
Break: 10:20am, to 10:35am
Period 2: 10:35am to 11:35am
Period 3: 11:35am to 12:35pm
Lunch: 12:35pm to 1:25pm
Period 4: 1:15pm to 2:15pm
Period 5: 2:15pm to 3:15pm

As we will have lots of visitors coming through Reception on the morning of December 19th, can I ask that if you are able to attend that you arrive between 8:40am to 9:05am as this will give us time to sign our visitors in, and get them settled in our Activity Studio for a 9:20am start. There will be pastries and a hot beverage waiting for all of our contributors on arrival and lunch will be provided.
We really hope that you will be able to give this one day to help our students, over 40% of whom are from a disadvantaged background and who therefore lack the social and cultural opportunities to interact with professionals such as yourselves in their day to day lives. You could really make a difference!