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  Invitation For Parents: How to turn teenagers into successful young professionals We are delighted to announce the first events in our  Success Beyond School  series for 2023.  These are live online seminars featuring career experts, designed to help parents amplify their children’s career potential.  The events are for parents and are free to attend. 1st February: Communicating With Confidence How to develop children to become strong communicators 15th March: Engineer Your Future How to help your child launch a career in Engineering More details and to register

  You're invited to  Unifrog's Skills & Enterprise Week 2022 !  Every year we run a week dedicated to helping students boost their employability skills and getting them ready for the workplace. From 31 January - 4 February, we'll be running a student competition, student skills development webinars, and webinars for teachers and careers advisors, all based around the  key skills that employers are looking for Skills development webinars Students will have the chance to hear from the experts in  live interactive webinars  on how to boost the key employability skills that employers look for in young people:   Staying positive     Communication  and  presenting    Problem-solving     Leadership     We had over  7,500 students  sign up to these webinars last year so encourage your students to sign up early so that they don't miss out!    Students can sign up for free here

  New 2021/22 STEM and parents’ guides coming soon! Message from Success at School We are delighted to announce that our brand new 2021/22 edition STEM and Parents’ Guides will be released digitally on  8th of September . Both guides will be available for  parents to access   FREE .  Just sign up to our mailing list to receive your copies.   T o access the guides, parents and carers just need to sign up to our special parents' mailing list this link is to a special sign-up form explaining the guides: https://mailchi.mp/successatschool/parents-careers-guides What can you expect?   Parents’ guide: This year’s Parents’ Guide will be our second edition, and has a skills specific theme. This guide has been designed to help parents support their children in making informed decisions about their future, and develop the correct skills to help them succeed. Parents will benefit from content on topics including: Pathways into work , including T-levels,...

You can listen to episode 2 and subscribe to the full series by  clicking here   listen In the second episode of the Parent Perspective Podcast series we look at the  experiences of young people  and ways in which they can  stand out when applying for competitive schemes . We hear from a  young graduate  and an  apprentice  about their respective career journeys, what paths they took, why they made that choice, and how their parents supported them to pursue their chosen careers.  We also hear from  Mark Smith, Resourcing Specialist – Early Careers, at the BBC , who shares his  hints and tips  for young people  applying for competitive schemes  and his insights on careers opportunities at the moment. 

  BRAND NEW: The Employability Guide                  Download here Are you looking to land your first job but not sure how to get started? This brand-new Employability Guide is here to help by equipping you with the skills and knowledge you need to enter the job market with confidence. When you reach 16, school assemblies are all about  finding work experience , a  part-time job  and the right  university . Considering all these next steps can be both overwhelming and exciting, it's more than likely you have lots of questions...   This Employability Guide is here to provide you with some of the answers. Packed with tips and tricks about  building your CV ,  preparing for interviews ,  networking  and  finding work experience . We won’t give it all away though... download your free guide now and kickstart your career....

  Our first Accountancy Academy programme for 2021 recently came to an end and we were overwhelmed by the positive feedback received from those who attended. I wanted to remind you that these sessions will be repeating in the Summer and the dates and details are as follows:   6 th   July – Introduction to accountancy 8th July – Accountancy Taster Session 13th July – The Skills needed as an Accountant 15th July – CV and Interview Preparation 20th July – Employer Q&A forum.   All sessions take place between 4.30 pm and 6.00 pm. These sessions are open to any student aged 16+, please do share with anyone you think might find it useful to join.   You can find more information and a link to sign up in this link: https://www.firstintuition.co.uk/fihub/accountancy-academy-online-for-2021/   We have also been working on a new package of resources aimed at young people looking for work and entering the workplace for the first time. We have called this ‘Employabi...

  This is a useful online booklet covering all aspects of getting employment access guide here