Career Inspiration Events

EBP South’s established career events are a cost-effective way for your organisation to develop long-term recruitment plans and invest in young people. Through large-scale events, your organisation will be supporting 100’s of students from a diverse range of schools, helping to have a positive impact on social mobility, decrease the gender gap and create awareness about the job roles young people can aspire to.

Inspire 100’s of young people into your industry by demonstrating the skills required through an interactive activity that showcases your businesses or industry.

Get Inspired

Businesses are required to create a short, 5 minute activity that young people can take part-in individually or in groups. Alternatively businesses can bring in a piece of equipment that you use in your job that young people can ‘explore’, e.g. bus company – buses or theatre ‘lighting’ etc. The activity must relate to your organisation or industry.

The purpose is to engage young people in a fun way that then enables them to ask you questions about job roles, industry etc. and through success of completing the activity they will see that maybe if they can do that, they could do a job in your industry.

Help create a spark and inspire the next generation.

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Primary Schools’ STEM Fairs

The Primary Schools’ STEM fair gives your business an opportunity to develop your recruitment pipeline from a young age.

Businesses are required to create a short 20 or 30 minute STEM activity that young people in groups can take part in. Businesses will need to supply the equipment and resources. The activity should be fun and you could have prizes for the group with the quickest time if they are making a car, or flying a plane the furthest etc.

The aim is for young people to have fun, take part in a STEM activity and at the end linking the STEM activity to the jobs so they can see that if they can build a toy car, they would be able to build other things and if they had fun they might enjoy a career in that industry.

Young people will be in groups that will rotate throughout the day between the businesses. By taking part your business can:

1. Inspire young people.
2. Help them discover careers they may not have thought of.
3. Help to bridge the skills gap.
4. Be active in developing your recruitment pipeline.
5. Grow your brand awareness.
6. Address your Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Inspiring STEM

Our Inspiring STEM event provides businesses with an opportunity to inspire secondary school students about careers in STEM. Taking place at the National Oceanography Centre, this event combines activities provided by businesses with lab activities and an NOC activity. Businesses are required to create a short 30-minute STEM activity that young people in groups can take part in. Businesses will need to supply the equipment and resources. The activity should be fun and you could have prizes for the group with the quickest time if they are making a car or furthest plane etc.

The benefits of attending are:

• It is an exciting, fun, interactive event that showcases the career opportunities in STEM industries.
• Helping the break down stereotypes about STEM careers.
• It inspires young people to aspire to job roles in your industry – often young people don’t aspire to job roles because they don’t know they exist or what they involve.
• By attending this event, businesses can help to reduce future skills gaps  – research has shown it is important that young people are inspired by businesses from a young age.
• This event is a proactive way for businesses to give back to your community.

Outcomes for business

1. Inspire young people.
2. Help them discover careers they may not have thought of.
3. Help to bridge the skills gap.
4. Be active in developing your recruitment pipeline.
5. Grow your brand awareness.
6. Address your Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Partnership and Sponsorship

You can be the named partner for the event or you can sponsor the event raising your profile and being the names organisation on the header, literature of the event. Its a great way to show that you are proactive in recognising the importance of inspiring young people into their future careers and highlighting the opportunities in your industry.

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