IMJacks CAFE – Careers Advice and Further Education goes live next month. With its launch comes a whole new way of introducing school children to the world of work.
As children we all have dreams and aspirations of what we want to be ‘when we grow up’ (do we every really ‘grow up’ or do we just ‘grow old’ ?… that’s a blog for another day !!)..
I can remember mine, through various stages of my childhood through to teenage years… I went from wanting to be a Vet, Nurse, Teacher, Writer, Hairdresser and ended up doing my basic training in the Army to go onto Officer Training College…
However I never quite made it and ended up getting married and starting a family… then years later when all my children were old enough I rediscovered my career path and had a serious think about what I wanted to do… I ended up studying to become an accountant and finally ended up in IT !!
At no point in any of my career path did I end up doing what I actually set out to do !
Looking back I realise now there is a little bit of me in all the things I wanted to be when I was younger, but I never had the advice or guidance pointing me in the direction of where I should go to follow any of these paths effectively.
IMJack has got together with the SSAT (Specialist Schools Academies’ Trust) to develop the CAFE…. this is a place where pupils can engage with mentors from the world of business, ask them questions on what a job involves and find out all the good (and bad) things about a particular career.
They can go on and find out all about the types of careers that children dream about, they can find out if they have the right kind of personality to do this type of job or is there something else out there more suited they had never even thought of! They can watch videos of people doing their everyday job or find out about a ‘day in the life’ … by capturing their dreams and nurturing them at an early age we are helping the children who are our future, explore ways they can move forward to become more confident and motivated individuals.
If you are interested in becoming a mentor and creating a profile of you and your job on the IMJack platform which will be distributed in schools around the UK then please contact our CAFE team on 0870 836 8936 or email kathleen.parker@imjack.com
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