Year 10 Employability Event
Year 10 Parent Employability
Event
In an ever changing economy, young people today face a number of challenging
decisions about their future. It is more important than ever that young people
make their career choices wisely. Many young people turn to parents and carers
for careers advice and with this in mind we held an event in school to help with
this.
To help equip parents to advise and
guide their child in these important decisions, we engaged with eye4education, a
leading employability and education organisation, to develop an interactive and
engaging information session that brought parents of year 10 pupils, up to speed
on the future demand in the NI labour market, the qualifications demanded by
employers, the progression routes for pupils from year 10 to the job market
(including alternative routes), the impact that STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Maths) companies will have on the NI economy and the demand for
STEM and non-STEM qualified employees within those STEM companies.
The event took place Wednesday
5th of March at 7pm and the hall was full of year 10 parents.We will be continuing to work with the pupils over
the next few months in school, but this was a chance for the parents to get
engaged with the Careers Department and eye4education to prepare for these very
important Career decisions.
This event
was a collaborative project with St. Benedict’s College, Randalstown and we were
delighted to welcome the parents of St. Benedict’s pupils to St. Louis.
Finally, we would like to publicly thank Ronan
O’Mullan (former head boy) for taking time out of his final year to come and
speak to parents on how he made his career decisions. Ronan is due to graduate
in July from a Masters in Civil Engineering and we wish him every success.
