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Charterhouse continues to work hard to prepare our pupils for higher education and the careers that lie ahead of them. Here is a round-up of current initiatives
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n addition to strong academic studies, we place an emphasis on all pupils developing essential skills to prepare them for life after Charterhouse. This activity includes: • Monthly newsletters to make sure all parents and pupils are informed about HE&C news, events and opportunities. This includes upcoming open days, timely careers and work experience opportunities, links to careers and guidance directories. • To support the monthly newsletter, seven guides have been produced to date that explore making applications to Oxbridge, London universities, US universities, medical degrees, degree apprenticeships, professional qualifications and work experience opportunities. All are available on the HE&C pages on the School website. This website section also includes a link to our Twitter feed and everything else we publish. • Career Speed Networking events are arranged every term. This
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is a fantastic way for pupils to learn about different careers and meet professionals who can offer career guidance and share their knowledge and experience. • Career Advice Sessions are arranged to offer careers advice and CV and cover letter writing skills. All Fifths and Specialists are encouraged to have an up-todate CV and, ideally, a draft cover letter, and they can also arrange individual sessions with the team. Producing a CV at this stage often highlights any gaps in the skills that employers are looking for, such as leadership, teamwork and communication, and means that pupils have time whilst still at Charterhouse to take part in activities and societies to start developing them. • Guest speakers and visits have also proved popular for this academic year, which has an entrepreneurial theme to it, in line with the launch of the new elective – the Business and Entrepreneurship Programme.
Guest speakers and trips so far have included: Ian James, the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Surrey and Surrey Business School. He was joined by Dr Mitra Najafi, the CEO of Pplus Products, a new business that has developed one of the most useful natural treatments to speed up healing and rejuvenation in the body using the client’s own blood plasma. Kathy Warden, the CEO (UK & Europe) of Northrop Grumman, came to talk about a fascinating range of topics from global defence and cyber security, to supplying the space station and modern warfare. A trip to the7stars media agency The UK’s largest independent media agency gave presentations to the pupils on various media channels, and the pupils had to put together and pitch the most suitable media brief for a Papa John’s pizza campaign.
