We hope you have enjoyed a successful start to the 2024-25 academic year. We kicked of the year with a bang with our annual Careers Hub conference in partnership with the South Midlands Growth Hub, and the launch of our website. More information below!
Careers Hub Updates
Staffing We have appointed a new Strategic Hub Lead for the Careers Hub. We are delighted to say that Yvonne Ashby will be taking on the role. We will therefore be recruiting for an Operational Hub Lead in the near future – watch this space!
Term 1 Kick Off If you missed it, please do take a look at the slides from our online term 1 kick off meeting. This is something we will be running at the start of each term and is a 30 minute overview of all of the headlines for the coming term.
Career Leader Survey We would appreciate it if any Careers Leaders could take the time to complete our Career Leader survey
Website Launch We are really excited to launch our new South Midlands Careers Hub website. Please do visit and familiarise yourself with the content. Resources will continue to be added over the coming weeks and months (you may need to register on the site to access some of these), and we would like to encourage our schools and colleges and partners to use the site to share their own news and events. Some key links below:
Partner News/Events (please do not use this to request volunteers or exhibitors for events), partners please upload events/news such as open day dates and good news stories: Partner News / Events – South Midlands Careers Hub
Annual Conference – 24.09.2024 Thank you to the 203 delegates who joined our annual conference this month, to our keynote speaker Ryan Gibson from the Gatsby Foundation, and to our amazing panellists and exhibitors on the day. We had some great feedback from delegates and have including some comments below. Access the slides from the day here.
‘Great to network and meet from different sectors. Good to hear about developments coming up and things to look out for. It highlights the level of support that is available’
‘First time at one of these events. It was great to meet people and I found the workshops really informative’
‘Discussions about bridging the skills gap with employers, panellists and education was insightful and will help in my role as an Industry Partner’
Support for Careers Leaders
New Career Leader induction with Hub Leads – Thursday 24th October 3:30pm – 4:30pm. Email careershub@semlep.com to be sent the meeting link
This academic year our amazing Careers Hub Ambassadors Stacey Morris, Lee Nelson and Alyce Harriswill be offering small group online support sessions covering the areas below. These will last between 30 and 60 minutes. If you are interested, please add your details and area of interest here.
SEND – Embedding Careers in the Curriculum BM3 & BM4
SEND – Enterprise projects BM6
SEND – First steps in employer engagement BM5
SEND – Cementing employer relationships BM5 & 6
SEND – Valuing your work all BMs
Mainstream – Developing a whole school stable careers programme BM1
Mainstream – support to embed LMI within curriculum learning and parental engagement BM3
Mainstream – Meaningful ways to enable encounters with employers and employees and link to the curriculum. BM4 & 5
