Careers Newsletter April 2023

Courses, Choices and Career Opportunities

April 2023

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Accountancy Training for School Leaver

Alternative options – abrdn Traineeship Programme

Gap year advice Sessions

KPMG Glasgow Event Sign up

MEDSOC Resources and Work Experience

Multi-Industry Careers Event for S5, S6 with KPMG Glasgow

Reminder: Springpod Work Experience Options

Residential Volunteering Opportunity for Summer in Scotland

Sixth Form Leaders Conference – Economists and Essay Competition

STEM and Medicine Summer Experiences

3 Alternative Pathways to Medicine

Try before you Buy … University Spotlight – English literature with the University of Birmingham Work Experience and Insights Week

Please email Steph Hall, sbh@stge.org.uk with suggestions, questions or for further information on any of the above. If you’re interested in contributing to any careers’ events or know of useful resources which might benefit others from a whole array of subject and career areas, I look forward to hearing from you at the above email address.

Accountancy Training for School Leaver

Just as a quick introduction my name is Simi and I work for a London based recruitment agency, Gambit Search. We help source talent across the UK for the majority of the top 50 ranked accountancy firms.

I am writing to you today as one of our accountancy clients are looking for a school leaver to come on board and join their corporate restructuring and insolvency team in Edinburgh.

Our client is a financial and business advisory firm that specialise in forensic investigations, insolvency, restructuring and corporate finance. They have over 20 offices and are highly reputable.

This opportunity is very rare and unique, and I do think this role will appeal to many sixth formers that don’t want to go down the university route. It is also a great opportunity for them to kick start career in the world of finance.

As an overview, they will join the team as a trainee and learn all about insolvency all while assisting a team that works on high profile insolvency cases (in the millions). Once they gain a strong foundation, our client will provide accountancy training and study support to allow them to progress and build a career.

My client is keen to start the interview process soon and would like an ambitious and motivated individual, which I believe they can find from your highly reputable school, to commence work at the end of May / early June.

I would appreciate if you could share this with the sixth formers within your school. I have attached the job spec in this email, and I am more than happy to arrange a call with yourself to answer any questions you might have for me regarding this role.

Alternative options – abrdn Traineeship Programme

About the Traineeship Programme

Our Traineeship will give you 12 months of experience in our company that will help you to grow your knowledge of the world of work, gain work experience within a professional environment and improve your understanding of our industry. Moving from school / college is a unique experience! It is one we understand, and support. Our Traineeship will see you learn as you earn, giving you access to qualifications, a structured training programme and a network of new colleagues. You may not have any work or industry experience. You don’t need it for this programme! Our focus is on finding those with the right attitude and values who are willing to learn. This programme is an excellent opportunity for school and college leavers to kick start their career in the industry.

Life is good when we can be ourselves. It’s the energy that makes us an outstanding team.

Key information:

Close date: 17 April 2023

Start date: October 2023

Location: Edinburgh Apply

Gap year advice Sessions

Africa & Asia Venture (AV) is 30 years old this year! About 6,000 young people aged 17-25 from 30+ countries have travelled with us and experienced our group-based, full-immersion volunteering programs in Africa and Asia.

We now offer one-on-one gap year advise sessions on all/any aspects of the subject. Do please forward this message to any student who might be interested in picking our brains!

In case it helps, here is a link to a video that Jess and Sam made for us about their time in Uganda with us - https://youtu.be/V_wR71MKW2c.

KPMG Glasgow Event Sign up

https://uptree.co/events/futuresup/1355641258/?pk_campaign=bulletin

MEDSOC Resources and Work Experience

These might be useful for any MEDSOC meetings coming up soon.

Article 1 - Medical School Options for Year 12s

Article 2 - Medical Work Experience Week - April & Summer

Article 3 - NHS Strikes - What do we know?

Please feel free to share these with your students. If there is anything we can do to support your medics, just let me know.

Kind regards,

Mark Williams Director of Learning

W: www.medicalprojects.co.uk

E: mark@medicalprojects.co.uk

P: +44(0)191 704 2064

Award-winningresources,supportandcoursesforaspiring medics

Latestreport:2022/23MedicalSchoolAdmissionsReport

Multi-Industry Careers Event for S5, S6 with KPMG Glasgow

Happy Scottish Apprenticeship from all of us at Uptree! We wanted to take this opportunity to let you know about out upcoming multi-industry careers event for senior phase students.

FuturesUP is an interactive careers event which allows students to meet with a range of employers from across industries, get inspired, and learn about the range of career pathways available to them post-school.

This year FuturesUp is taking place on 14 June at KPMG's offices in Glasgow.

Who should apply: S5, S6 or college students who want to explore careers and develop their skills.

What will attendees do? `

 Take part in Q&As with apprentices at leading companies.

 Meet employers and find out about opportunities in a range of industries.

 Work on group industry taks.

 Speed network with professionals and like-minded students.

 Build confidence in professional settings.

Students can apply to FuturesUP here.

Reminder: Springpod Work Experience Options

https://www.springpod.com/virtual-work-experience?utm_source=ac

Residential Volunteering Opportunity for Summer in Scotland

Hello,

I was wondering if you might be able to help me. I'm looking to share a volunteering opportunity with your S6 pupils (and/ or staff)? I'm part of a registered charity called the Newman Holiday Trust who provide free residential holidays as respite care for young people aged 3-18 with additional and complex support needs, normally from disadvantaged backgrounds. We hold a holiday each year in Scotland, previously hosted at Glenalmond College, but now at Strathallan School in Perth. This year the Scottish Holiday is going to be from the 15th to the 23rd of July and all accommodation and food is provided for our helpers. This year, we are struggling to reach our normal number of helpers for the holiday (especially our number of boys) so are exploring new avenues to share the opportunity more widely.

I thought it might be worthwhile reaching out to schools, like yourself, who have committed, keen young people who may want to volunteer their time to help a worthy cause? If they are 18 years old by the start of the holiday in July they can be full helpers. We can also take two 17 year olds per holiday for work experience who will be buddied with someone more experienced. If your school complete Gold Duke of Ed or other volunteering awards, these hours can also count towards them as this has been done in the past.

Our applications officially close at the end of the week. However, if anyone was interested in applying and didn't have time before the deadline, they could let us know at this email address and we could give them a short extension.

I've volunteered with NHT for the last 10 years since I just left school and I can say it has been the most wonderful experience and has taught me so many valuable life skills, whilst allowing me to provide a life-changing experience to a deserving young person each year.

I have copied some more information, including links to our application form and our current recruitment leaflet below. If you would be happy to share this I would be extremely grateful.

If you, or your young people, have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Kindest regards,

Lauren McKechnie

About the Scottish Holiday - The Newman Holiday Trust is a voluntary organisation which provides free residential activity holidays for children and young people with additional needs who are from disadvantaged backgrounds from across the UK. The Scottish Holiday has been running for 25 years and will take place from the 15th to the 23rd of July this summer at Strathallan School in Perth. There is no cost to volunteers for attending – all food and accommodation is provided, and car shares can be organised. All training is provided at the start of the holiday and no previous experience is necessary. You’ll be giving the holiday of a lifetime to a child that wouldn’t otherwise have one. To be a full helper you will need to be 18 by the start date of the holiday. More information about the holidays can be found at our website here, and if you want to apply the application link is live here and closes in early March - so get them in quick! Any questions, please contact scotland@newmantrust.org

About the Newman Trust: The Trust provides holidays with one-to-one care for over 140 children aged 4-16 every summer in various locations around the United Kingdom. The holidays are provided at no cost to the children’s families.

Due to the high level of skilled care, they require or financial circumstances, the children selected for these breaks would not otherwise receive a holiday. The holidays provide a range of fun activities in a safe and supported environment and use a care ratio of one helper to one child at all times. Each holiday includes at least one fully qualified nurse whose sole task is to take care of the children’s medical needs.

The Trust is an entirely voluntary organisation and owes its success to over 200 people who dedicate their free time to helping these children. This voluntary structure ensures that every penny raised goes directly towards a child’s holiday.

About Volunteering: Being a volunteer helper on a Newman Trust holiday is a wonderfully rewarding experience. You will enable deserving children to have a holiday of a lifetime and contribute to a unique experience for all involved. The holidays are FUN, FULFILLING and strangely ADDICTIVE! `

That said, the holidays are tiring and sometimes emotionally demanding. Real commitment is required before the holiday and on the week.

All new helpers are required to attend a recruitment session to meet a representative from the holiday so we can complete background checks. On the holiday itself it can be tough work looking after someone with additional needs and you'll need to put every effort into helping your child and working within the group. However, there's a lot of support, it’s great fun, and incredibly rewarding.

No prior training is needed - just a strong will to help others, lots of energy, and a sense of humour. There is also a very supportive and friendly environment with the more experienced helpers actively helping those newer to the role.

Sixth Form Leaders Conference – Economists and Essay Competition

If you are thinking of studying Economics, this summer conference might be just for you:

https://iea.org.uk/students/future-thought-leaders-programme-sixth-form/ `

STEM and Medicine Summer Experiences

Do your students want to experience life in the fast-lane of a STEM or Medicinerelated career next summer? We have partnered with world-class professionals across 10 STEM industries to create the most immersive and exclusive work experience activities that your students can find this summer.

The ultimate internship: experience emergency medicine in theatre; explore a Boeing 747 jet with aerospace engineers; work with psychologists in a clinic; analyse fingerprints and blood splatter on a crime scene. And much much more!

Our Summer Experiences are already over 75% full so students should register as soon as possible.

We kindly ask you to share this email with relevant students and parents so they can consider these opportunities.

View All: Ages 15-18

View All: Ages

All STEM Summer Experiences

Architecture: complete design projects in a real studio

Dentistry: drill teeth on phantom heads

Engineering: take apart a supercar engine with F1 engineers

Forensic Science: explore a simulated crime scene

Investment Banking: trade the markets live in a London skyscraper

Medicine: shadow doctors in a London teaching hospital

Psychology: carry out patient consultations in a simulated clinic

Software Engineering: create your own app from start to finish

Veterinary Medicine: examine and diagnose real animals

Video Game Design: design a game and pitch to industry leaders

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3 Alternative Pathways to Medicine

Medic Monday

Medic Monday is a weekly update from The Medic Portal. Every Monday, we share top tips to help aspiring medics get ahead!

This week we're exploring alternative pathways to Medicine for any applicants with no Med School offers this year. We've got guides to Graduate Entry, Transferring and Studying Abroad.

Guide: Graduate Entry Medicine

Learn more about this pathway to Medicineincluding where you can study GEM, the entry requirements and the number of places.

Guide: Transfer To Medicine

Find out which universities typically have transfer to Medicine schemes - and get an insight into how competitive this pathway can be.

Guide: Study Medicine Abroad

Discover what it's like to study Medicine abroad with our guides to medical degrees in Europe, the Caribbean, Australia and more.

Upcoming Free Webinars

Want free tips and advice for your Medicine application and the UCAT test? Join our webinars!

Try before you Buy … University Spotlight – English literature with the University of Birmingham

English Literature with Professor John Holmes - Trailer - Subject Spotlights | Springpod

Work Experience and Insights Week

Work Experience and Insights Week commences on 12th June and there is an exciting programme of events planned.

Please email Steph Hall, sbh@stge.org.uk with suggestions, questions or for further information on any of the above. If you’re interested in contributing to any careers’ events or know of useful

resources which might benefit others from a whole array of subject and career areas, I look forward to hearing from you at the above email address.