Have your students discovered our Careers Inspiration webinars? These free, interactive live sessions are full of inspiration for your students about where computing can lead; whether that’s creating apps, engineering for Xbox, or defending against cyber-attacks.
Olivia Wolfheart, BCS membership engagement manager, explains more…
Over the last few weeks BCS has been hosting a series of live webinars, Careers Inspiration.
The aim is to help young people find out about a variety of technology-based careers and to demystify the world of work.
We’d really appreciate your help in publicising this to your students in Year 10 and 11 to help with their career choices. Due to the current circumstances young people will be missing out on activities such as careers fairs and work experience, so we wanted to provide some information to help fill that gap.
We have been sitting down app designers, cyber security apprentices and virtual reality games designers to find out what is involved in their jobs day-to-day, hear about some of the exciting projects they are working on, what they love most about their jobs and any advice they would give to young people interested in a similar career path.
As the sessions are broadcast ‘live’, and young people can put their own questions forward to the guest. Over the next few weeks, we have some great guests lined up, please do share these with your students – click on links to join up!
• Thursday 11 June 2:30pm Ian Wilson- Technology Development at Nationwide
• Thursday 18 June 2:30pm Jacob Ward and Will Furnell - Scientific Computing
• Thursday 25 June 2.30pm Frank Wilson and Rory Claasen, engineering and branding, Xbox
• Thu, Jul 9, 2020 2.30pm Grace Blake (junior management consultant) and Kiara Jones (apprentice), IBM
We’ve also showcased different routes into technology including apprenticeships, graduate schemes and fast-track training.
The Careers Inspiration series allows young people to find out, first-hand, about some of the different job opportunities available in technology. Overall, the series is a great opportunity to:
• Hear from a range of inspiring individuals working in the tech industry
• Gain insight into different and exciting areas of technology
• Learn more about different future pathways including apprenticeships and university
• Gain insight into different and exciting areas of technology
• Learn more about different future pathways including apprenticeships and university
BCS has recently launched a Careers Inspiration web page where you can view previous sessions and details of what’s coming up as well as some helpful links and a downloadable careers leaflet.
Participants include; Dean Blacc, iOS app developer; Tara Reddy, CEO Loveshark.io Augmented Reality Games; Josh Callicott, Cyber Security Apprentice, BT; Adam Leon-Smith, Quality Testing and AI, We Are Dragonfly; Alice Whitley and Claire Bisset, Graduate Scheme, BT.
Overall, the series is a great opportunity to:
• Hear from a range of inspiring individuals working in the tech industry
• Gain insight into different and exciting areas of technology
• Learn more about different future pathways including apprenticeships and university.
