Help young people get an insight to your career
National Careers Week and National Apprenticeship Week promote the importance and need for innovative ways to connect young people to the multi-faceted world of work. And the bottom line is that schools and colleges need help from people like you in the workplace to make this challenge a reality.
CIPD in partnership with the Careers and Enterprise Company and the Mayors Fund for London have a growing number of professionals who commit their time to supporting a school or college to develop a careers strategy.
The central point of purpose is the need to introduce careers advice from an early age and establish sustainable links with local labour markets. This is reinforced by the current strong rhetoric on skills gaps;
‘acute shortage of skilled workers’,‘struggling to fill key vacancies ‘, ‘income inequality’ and ‘social mobility’.
It seems a formidable task and every contribution could help ease the load and make a real difference.
The value of workplace encounters through what I have termed ‘collaborative careers conversation’ will go a long way to connecting, mentoring and inspiring our next generation. It may stimulate entrepreneurism, investment in skills and it may offer alternative pathways to those young people seeking something diverse or unique. The outcome of your discretionary effort will have merit for at least one individual.
So, I ask you and your networks to consider having at least one, ‘collaborative careers conversation’ with a local or connected school during 2022. It could be as informal as sharing your career story, a company presentation or any platform that can offer a lens into the world of potential careers to a young mind.
If you want to help young people get an insight into your career story please contact me, the careers and enterprise company
or your local school .
Neena Speding
MSc Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health
MSc Psychological Sciences
MBPsS
Chartered MCIPD
First class BSc (Hons) HRM, PGCE
At epoché I am passionate about well-being and psychology beyond just what I do.
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Among the hustle and bustle of trying to get a socially distanced seat at a recent neuroscience seminar, I overheard a remark:
“We should consider designing learning interventions for the brain and not the learning style”
With two millennials, one teenager and an even bigger kid with a passion for all things hi-fi in the house you can probably imagine the cacophony of sounds that sometimes greets me.
I recently received a communication that was signed ‘Mx’ from a colleague who had previously signed communications as ‘Mr’. This prompted me to ask some questions and do some research; for me it is not about labelling and compartmentalising, it is about being informed, inclusive and respectful.
I constantly seek research and findings that effectively and meaningfully link academia and the real world. A recent example that sparked my imagination was discovering the works of Elizabeth Blackburn a Nobel prize winning, molecular biologist.
World Mental Health Day.
A collaboration between Neena Speding (epoché.com) &
Dominic Ciambrone (theshoesurgeon.com)
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Would you frequent a commercial cannabis establishment if you were in a place where it was legalised?
Would you partake in any Cannabis consumption with a client/colleague of that region?
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