Gwinnett County Public Schools’ Post

My old school can't keep me away! 🤭 Yesterday evening, I attended Furze Platt Senior School's Careers and Higher Education Fair 2023 to answer students' questions about getting into marketing. It was great to revisit the school and gain insights into the career aspirations of the next generation. #FurzePlatt #CareersFair #Careers #MarketingCareer #CareerDevelopment #ProfessionalDevelopment

What’s Next After University? Check out the highlights from our session at the BU Employability Fair! We explored practical strategies for new graduates, including: - Navigating the job market post-university - Finding gig jobs as a proactive approach - Going beyond just dropping off CVs Watch the video to get valuable insights and tips for kickstarting your career journey! #Employability #CareerTips #GigEconomy #YALDABotswana #YouthEmpowerment #BotswanaYouth #StayUpdated #CommunityImpact #YouthLeadership #PassionProjects #Africa Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa

❓ What skills can History give you? ❓ This poster outlines the skills students develop when they study History. This free-to-download suite is designed to help students and parents understand how studying History can lead to strong employment prospects, in-demand skills, personal growth and community wellbeing. We hope these resources help you inspire young people to continue studying History, or to foster their passion for this wonderful subject. They can be distributed at subject-selection events and careers fairs, posted up in History classrooms and staff rooms, or simply sent to a student who is talking with you about their subject choices. Please be sure to share these with your school or university careers counsellors. HTAV would like to acknowledge the support of the Victorian Government and the Department of Education. All schools, universities, history teachers’ associations and historical associations are welcome to provide their members and networks with the link to the resources. 🔗 To download the full suite of resources, click here: https://lnkd.in/gtXFnePF

Class of 23 and Class of 24 SHU Art & Design - get yourself down the clinic for careers advice and extra support in career planning and transitioning from university to your future career... #clinicsupport #getsomehelpandadvice #careerreadinessrules

New chapter, time to spend time with my boys at the Edinburgh Science, sponsored by Baillie Gifford, The Scottish Government and The City of Edinburgh Council and Edina Trust and others. Brilliant exposure to #STEM: slime making, instrument workshops, lego challenge and more. Matti is only 3, too early to think of careers? I worked with so many businesses and so many thought that nursery was way too early to engage. Quite the opposite, this is the time to inspire young minds, they are curious and through play they learn and remember so much. According to the Climate Change Committee, they estimate up to 725,000 new jobs in low carbon solutions to be created by 2028 and there is an urgent need to recruit and train young people to deliver #netzero, also called the #netzeroworkforce. (https://lnkd.in/eDUWi2Qt) Attending careers fair in high schools is 'old school', so go further and engage in the beginning of their development, capture their imagination, invest in resource and time, and make those engagements accessible for everyone. Not a one-off, but rather on-going commitment. Plan the engagement with #essentialskills in mind. #developingyoungworkforce #futureleaders #netzeroskills #STEMskills #employmentskills #lowcarbonskills #greenskills

Conducting College Fair 'alone' IS NOT equal to providing robust career & college guidance in schools. In the last 6-7 years we have seen that the awareness & maturity of entire ecosystem to have move ahead when it comes to career guidance intervention. But the current trend (among pvt schools specially) of just doing college fair, mostly with tier 3 & below universities has no impact to help students chose a right career. While we may go slow or be far away from what western countries have done in this space, doing random stuff in the form of one-time event is not helping move things for students when it comes to their career & college decision!

It is Exam Results Month! Tomorrow (17th August) thousands of students across the country will be opening their A-level exam results and in one weeks time on 24th August, younger students will also be waiting to receive their GCSE results. I attended a careers fair a couple of weeks ago, and students were anxious about their results and also not knowing what they want to do. During the career fair, I spoke to the attendees about how I spent most of my senior school years on film sets, and being given schooling during break times and downtime and how I didn't leave school with loads of qualifications. I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do when I was older and I have winged my whole career to date! I have had amazing opportunities, created amazing initiatives, re-written government policy, held a world record and above all have an amazing wife and children. Results didn't give me those things, I went out and made them happen. Okay I have felt that I have had to work twice as hard as other people to get to where I wanted to be, I have worked long hours, undertaken multiple qualifications, but so can you If you are a young person reading this, its okay not to have your shit together! (also, if your an adult, that too is okay) If the pandemic taught us anything, it's that life is too short and you do not know what is around the corner! It also taught us that exam results are a load of bollocks as for the last two years the results have been made up, so you are being compared this year to a bunch of data driven tables that were devised to make the education system look better. There are many highly successful people in the world that did not get any qualifications, that have gone on to do big and wonderful things and there are some amazing people on my LinkedIn that did not complete school. Make the most of the opportunities you create, spread your wings and go grab life! It won't be long until your in your 30's, with children and bills and you wish you had redone things differently... Sharing this amazing illustration by Josephine Scales to raise awareness that GCSE Grades have changed from letter results to numbers, other than U - which is for Unique!! #ExamResults #Results #LifeLessons

📚The teacher shortage crisis is a pressing issue facing schools and MATs today. According to the education workforce survey (DfE), 40,000 teachers resigned from state schools last year, equating to almost 9% of the teaching workforce, while a further 4,000 entered retirement. In our latest blog, Melanie Maul-Prior delves into innovative recruitment strategies to address this challenge head-on. From job fairs to social media recruitment, learn how to attract and retain top-tier educators in the current climate. Read now: https://bit.ly/3IIDRlq #EducationLeadership #TeacherRetention #RecruitmentInnovation

If school were not a scam... The average person thinks that: "I'll go to school, earn a degree, and my degree will earn me a job". Because of this thought process or idea, many have experienced disappointments, when the so-called school did not give them a 'job'; and because of that say- "school is a scam" If school were not a scam, why is school not handing out jobs to people? Remember back in the days, when people from their penultimate year would have job appointments waiting for them? Why is it not so anymore? The keynote speech delivered by Barrister Abimbola Ojenike at the career fair addressed this issue keenly. Think about it this way: You go to school and you learn new concepts about how the world works- whether in your biology class, or in your accounting class. You understand how things 'are'. But you're not supposed to remain at that point. Imagine if the Wright brothers only went to school to understand how things are? Imagine if their minds did not conceive "other possibilities"? Imagine if their hands did not explore those possibilities? How would you fly from point A to B, in just a few hours? Hence, education isn't just to "hand you a job". Instead, education gives you an awareness of what is happening in society. Through education, you understand how society functions, as well as your role in it. Education is a journey of self-discovery. Are you being educated? How much of yourself have you discovered?

What does Grassroots Grocery do during the week when we're not hosting our Saturday Produce Party? One major focus is our commitment to nurturing the future through regular produce deliveries to middle and high schools in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. A prime example of this commitment is our partnership with New Directions Secondary School, initiated by a committed school social worker, Jolyon Davis, LMSW,SIFI, who sought out resources for his students. Today marked a particularly special moment, bringing me back to my educational roots in the Bronx. This time, invited by Jolyon not for a produce delivery but to share insights from my career journey alongside a diverse group of professionals at the NDSS career fair. Speaking at this event was an opportunity to demonstrate the synergy between our weekday school deliveries and our vision for a healthier, empowered future for young minds. I hope that today I helped some students envision a future as rich and diverse as the produce we deliver. A heartfelt thank you to Jolyon for integrating Grassroots Grocery into the fabric of NDSS, and a shout-out to all the other professionals today for enriching the career fair with their insights and experiences. As Grassroots Grocery continues to bridge the gap between food access and education, every delivery, conversation, and partnership, especially ones like with NDSS, underscores our belief in the transformative power of community engagement. Together, we're not just feeding families; we're planting seeds of potential in the next generation. Let's keep building those bridges, one produce delivery and career fair at a time. #CommunityImpact #EmpoweringYouth #FutureLeaders #FoodJustice #BuildingBridges