Information for Parents

To help you support your child with making decisions about their future, this section contains useful resources and information about events you may wish to attend.

Resources:

• The Innervate Spring Term 2022 Newsletter
• The Parents’ Guide to National Apprenticeship Week 2022

• The Parents Guide to National Careers Week 2022

  • A really handy PDF guide to National Careers Week for parents, with a very helpful section on Work Experience, which gives some great advice on how to help your child navigate this aspect of their Careers Curriculum.

• https://www.parentkind.org.uk/Parents/Helping-with-careers-advice
• Youth Employment Website
• Target Careers – Parent Guide have created a series of events to give students the advice, confidence and contacts they need to secure their dream career. Each event is an excellent opportunity for students to explore their career options, meet employers and find out exactly what makes a successful application. There is a chance to win prizes such as internships, placements and graduate roles. They also have some great events to challenge gender stereotypes too.
• Success at School – Careers E-Book for Parents have created a great guide called Parents & Carers: Helping your child begin their career journey. It includes case studies, brand new info on T-levels, plus guest articles on university, mental health, encouraging young women into engineering and more. It could act as a perfect supplement to the careers information that you already give to parents.​
• Innervate – Spring term newsletter
• Parents Perspective Podcast The Parent Perspective” is an exciting new 8-part podcast series for parents and carers, helping them to support their children with careers advice and guidance.

• Careers Information – Hampshire and Surrey  A Facebook group offering centralised resources for educators and parents/carers looking for information about career pathways, apprenticeships and employers in the Hampshire and Surrey area. New information well be regularly added. Information can be found by searching posts/topics.

• Talking Futures offers practical advice and support to parents to help them have meaningful conversations with their children about career pathways from ages 16 and 18.

Events:

Skills London

The UK’s biggest careers fair for 14–24-year-olds, Skills London provides young people with a fantastic opportunity to discover a future that works for them, bridging the gap between what they enjoy doing and what they could do as a career to find a future that works for them. Returning in person on the 25th and 26th of November, the event is unique in offering up to 50,000 live jobs, training and apprenticeships in one place. Students can seek advice from career specialists and connect with some of the UK’s top higher and further education institutions, universities and employers. This year, Skills London welcome PwC, The Royal Air Force, Wagamama and the National Audit Office to their exhibitor lineup, offering students the chance to speak to a diverse range of outstanding organisations.

Skills London is free to attend, and perfect for students in Years 10-13. r professionals.

You can register here (https://email.optimus-education.com/optimuslz/lz.aspx?p1=M4TDU3OTM0MDZTNjAxNTo1MjU0QkY2ODMyMzkwQkQzOEJEOUREQzBEMzVENzI0Nw%3d%3d-&CC=&w=89794) .

Careers in Law

Is your child interested in Law? Would they like to learn more about the various pathways into the industry?

On Tuesday 11th October from 5:00pm – 6:00pm Young Professionals are hosting an online event with international law firm Charles Russell Speechlys. Charles Russell Speechlys are a top 30 law firm headquartered in London with offices across the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East with revenues of £120 million. We know how rare Solicitor Apprenticeships are as well as Mentoring and Work Experience placements within the legal profession. This is your chance to hear from global law firm Charles Russell Speechlys and discover how you can join their exciting school leaver programs open to Y12 & Y13 students across the U.K.

You will get some incredible insights from top lawyers at the firm, take part in some fantastic workshops and get a really great understanding of the alternative routes into the legal profession.

This gives students such a leg up into the industry straight from school with no university debt, a salary from day one and you become a fully qualified solicitor!

To sign up to this online event click here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/73Z9QJN (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/73Z9QJN)