It was really pleasing to see our Year 11 students embrace the opportunity of ‘Being professional’ for the day and to ‘step out of the playground’ and engage with those who were with us for the day from the World of work.
We had 23 Business volunteers in school for the day, from a wide range of professions. Students worked in small groups with our business volunteers on CV’s and Cover letters and mock interviews as well as hear about career routes in a ‘Share Your Career Path’ talk in the theatre.
The Business volunteers were really impressed with our students’ attitude and their engagement in the process and were only too happy to let us know. Overall the students took on the challenge and completed a questionnaire at the end. Below are the results from 94 returns out of 130 students.
Thank you to all those who supported the day and to our youth Islington colleague, Diana James, for engaging our Business Volunteers.