100 year 12 students at Gordon’s School in West End Woking got to meet a huge variety of business professionals yesterday during a frantic 1½ hours of ‘Careers Speed Dating’. We had scientists, engineers, both civil and structural, construction managers, accountants, architects, a patent attorney, an actor, a software developer, a TV producer, insurance company personnel, together with representatives from the Army and the RAF, all of whom were passionate and enthusiastic about their chosen careers.
The students were put into small groups and had 5 minutes to quiz their ‘business volunteer’, who was only allowed to answer yes or no thereby requiring the students to try & guess their professions. A further 5 minutes of frantic questioning followed to ascertain what they actually did for a living and how they had got where they were. A horn sounded and another ‘business volunteer’ from a different profession presented themselves for questioning.
It was fast, frenetic and enormous fun with the students commenting afterwards, “ I was astonished by how many different jobs there are available today” and “How many career options are open to me. You don’t need to go to university there are lots of other ways to get jobs”. Additionally many of the students commented that, “ I should research more on different professions as there are lots of interesting jobs out there and including lots that I have never even heard of!”
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