The School’s biennial Careers Evening was held in Bushell Hall on Wednesday 31st January. Pupils in Year 9 and above were invited to come along and talk to representatives from a wide range of careers about their jobs and find out about any qualifications and skills which are either essential or desirable. Over 50 delegates, representing careers including, medicine, digital marketing, engineering, media and the Armed Forces, were present and our pupils certainly took advantage of this opportunity.
The event draws on the network of organisations and career links within the School to really enhance careers provision.
All those who attended the event were extremely impressed with the extent of contacts and careers represented. One parent commented,
“I really think that the evening provided a fantastic opportunity for the students to understand the wide scope of careers available to them within each profession and encouraged them not just focus on the limited ones that they were aware of. It also provided a chance for them to discover that the traditional university route is now not the only option available to them (even into careers such as law) and encouraged them to investigate the alternatives that are now being offered.”
Head of Careers, Mrs Reeve, said of the event “Bushell Hall was full of students finding out about professions they were interested in and also those they had never heard of! I know that the delegates were impressed by the quality of the questions and I am sure our students left the hall both informed and inspired”.
A full list of delegates at the event is below:
Accounting & Finance
- Anne Chisholm, James Charlton – Tilney
- Dominic Richmond – Hadlow Edwards
- Claire Lattin, George Bryant - Handelsbanken
- Jennifer Cashin – Bibby Line Group
- Will Roberts – Rathbones
- Jonathan McCall, George Beal – Quilter Cheviot
Insurance
- Charlie Hurst – Stackhouse Poland
Architecture
- Adam Hall, Alice Gibson – Falconer Chester Hall
Surveying & Property
- Sophie Bevan
- Andrew McCausland
Engineering
- Chloe Grey, Ashleigh Boden - Unilever
- John Egan – Cabot Corporation
Vet
NHS/Healthcare
- Rachel Barton – Speech and Language Therapist
- Jennifer Taylor – Physiotherapist & Veterinary Therapist
- Sue Hess – Midwife
- Susan Travis, Annette Pollitt
- Sian Stokes - GP
- Andrew Brodbelt - Surgeon
Marketing
- Andrew Smith, Fahim Choudhary – Click Consult
- John-Paul Simpson – Zircom
- Julian Sowerby – Don’t Be Shy
Law & Legal Services
- Jenny Smith, Mel Caitens, Mike Embra - Hillyer McKeown
- Julie Simms, Isobel Berry – DWF
- Sarah Greenwood, Victoria Brennan - Pinsent Masons
- Ross Walker – Patent Attorney, Forresters
Business
- Peter Moore, Tina Roberts – Liverpool Football Club
- Victoria Hindmarch - Iceland
- Fraser Inglis, Actuary
Media & Arts
- Graham Lysaght – SAE Creative Media Courses
- Sean Marley – Mad As Birds Films
Education
- Jon Tonge – Professor of Politics, Liverpool University
- Sophie Barrett-Kai – Edge Hill University
Armed Forces
- Keith Skempton, Bill Busby - Army
- Karl Hille - Navy
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