Careers Fair

Lancing’s annual Careers Fair for Fifth Form and new Lower Sixth is a core part of the three-year long ‘My Future’ programme. Feedback from pupils and speakers helps us ensure the Fair is relevant and engaging, providing pupils with the best insights for the future.

This year’s Fair saw an impressive range of speakers from 16 industries – represented by OLs and parents, including Law, Medicine, Science, Third Sector & NGOs, the Civil & Diplomatic Service, Finance, Engineering, Sport and Arts & Media. Over the course of the morning, Fifth Form and Lower Sixth Form pupils were given the opportunity to attend four interactive sessions. Our speakers, who had prepared presentations, provided pupils with an insight into their own careers, useful entry routes and the key skills that were needed to acquire relevant work experience.

One of our current parents, Roy Haworth, who represented the Engineering sector said: ‘I really enjoyed meeting with the students; the questions were excellent and allowed me to develop some ideas for the students to follow up on. Engineering is a very broad field and sometimes it is important to work out what you don’t want to do as much as what you might want to aim towards. I hope I helped in both cases.’

Pupils have shared what they enjoyed and took away from the event:

‘Careers Fair gave me a chance to look at different types of career paths I could go down and different ways of going through university.’

‘The speakers knew what they were talking about and gave us a clear idea of how it feels to work in certain sectors’.

Commenting on the Fair, Diana Cree, Executive Director External Relations, said:

‘Students are really engaged in looking at their future and taking ownership of what routes they want to take when they leave Lancing. There is increasing interest in finding out more about the different options available and an appetite to look at work experience and internships. The level of expertise that we are able to bring to Lancing on a day like this is extremely powerful and students clearly recognise the benefit that this brings. We are incredibly grateful to all our workshop hosts who came from across the Lancing community – OLs, parents and staff.’

If anyone from the Lancing community is interested in taking part in our careers events by sharing their professional expertise, please contact Natacha Palmer at npalmer@lancing.org.uk