Our recent Meet Your Future Careers Fair was a fantastic opportunity for students to explore a wide range of career paths and further education options. The event brought together providers, employers, and industry professionals, giving students the chance to ask questions, gain insights, and be inspired about their futures.
With engaging discussions and valuable advice, the day highlighted the incredible support available to help our students achieve their ambitions. Thank you to all the organisations and representatives who attended and contributed to such a successful and impactful event!
Check out some highlights from the day!
Our year 8 students had an incredible opportunity to participate in the EPIC Engineers STEM Workshop, where they developed essential skills for success in STEM careers. Through a series of engaging, hands on design and build team challenges, students explored what it takes to become EPIC engineers.
The activities were enriched with real-world examples from the field of transport infrastructure, allowing students to step into various professional roles and gain valuable insights into the diverse career paths available in STEM. The workshop not only honed their technical and teamwork skills but also inspired them to envision their future as innovators and change makers in the engineering world.
This experience was a fantastic blend of learning, creativity, and career exploration, leaving our students excited and motivated about their potential in STEM!
Digdata is thrilled to announce free virtual work experience events with National Highways this November and December. These career challenges are designed to develop key employability skills such as problem solving, data literacy, storytelling, and presentation. Hosted on Microsoft Teams, these sessions take place outside of school hours, making them easily accessible.
Students will enjoy: • A 45-minute briefing with the National Highways team • The opportunity to complete a career challenge at their own pace • Certification upon completion
These events provide valuable insights into emerging careers and help students build skills that will enhance their future education and employment choices.
Please can you share the below with your students – registrations are now open!
England and Wales – years 7,8,9
Wednesday 27th November at 4.30pm (45-minute briefing session on MS Teams)
Gain virtual work experience with National Highways!
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National Careers Week: Careers in… Tech |
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Tech is all around us. It’s not just the smartphone in your hand or the games console in your bedroom. The world is filled with electronic devices, with increasing numbers – from fridges to lightbulbs – connected in the Internet of Things. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will increasingly dominate our lives, while robots are becoming more and more advanced, transporting our shopping and maybe even augmenting our bodies. |
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Students – if your teacher or careers advisor has forwarded you this resource, please sign up for a free Success at School account to receive more information like it: https://successatschool.org/ |
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What jobs are out there? |
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In this expansive field of work, jobs range from hardware and software to cybersecurity, digital marketing and IT support. Programmers, software developers and app developers create the code that underpins computer programs and apps (software) while electronics engineers research, design and develop the physical hardware – from computers to household appliances – these programs run on. Web designers and developers create and maintain websites while digital marketers produce content for sites and social media, and help organisations attract more visitors and achieve their online goals. Cybersecurity professionals protect people and organisations from cyberattacks by hackers – they make sure digital systems are using the best security measures and carry out tests to check for weaknesses. |
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What skills do I need? |
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Creativity: From app developer to electronics engineer, many tech professionals create something from nothing. Web designers and content creators think up snappy text, attractive graphics and engaging videos to make websites, apps and social media appealing to users. Find out more. |
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Problem solving: Whether writing computer code, designing a new device or developing robust systems to protect against ever-changing cybersecurity threats, tech jobs are built around finding answers to technical challenges. The ability to think logically and systematically is crucial to a successful career in tech. Find out more. |
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Technical skills: Anyone working in this field will need some degree of IT savvy – an affinity for picking up digital platforms. There are a whole host of other technical skills, many of which are dependent on the role. For example, a more specialist skill is the ability to code – essential for software specialists. Find out more. |
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What subjects should I take? |
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Uni or apprenticeship? |
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Opportunities for everyone… |
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The tech industry has a reputation for being overwhelmingly male. Organisations like Girls in Tech aim to help women begin and succeed in a career in tech. Girls in Tech is free to join and membership offers access to skills training, networking and mentoring and industry-specific careers advice. Research shows that skills training and mentoring can help you progress quickly in your career. Many tech roles require a university degree, which in the past put them out of bounds for young people not keen on another three or four years in education, or unwilling to take on extra debt. That’s why the sudden rise of apprenticeships is great news – these days, you can train to be a software engineer, game designer or cybersecurity specialist straight from school or college. |
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Your students still have time to unleash their potential with BMet, by joining us this Wednesday, the 21st of February at James Watt College, Matthew Boulton College, Sutton Coldfield College and Erdington Skills Centre for our next Open Event. The event is running from 4:00pm to 7:00pm.
Students will have the opportunity to see the facilities, meet our expert staff and find out about career pathways to start their further education journey.
We would really appreciate it if you could let your students know about the event and encourage them to come along and see what BMet has to offer.
At James Watt College during the event, we will be helping students who are interested in a BMW apprenticeship to apply too.
We look forward to seeing your students there!
