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- 1. Where will the world of work take you?
- 2. What are we here to talk about? • Challenge you to dare to be different • Think about the opportunities open to you • Challenge your beliefs • Provide you with some reality
- 3. Personal Panorama *name* *IBM job role* *Hobbies/interests* *University* *School/college* *How you got here* *Plans for the future* *Photos* *What I wanted to do after school?* *Parents jobs?*
- 4. Helena Eccles Foundation Programmes Coordinator helenaec@uk.ibm.com
- 5. Let’s think… oWhat do you want to do when you leave school? oWhat is expected of you by different people? oWhat do your parents do? oEver asked your parents what they thought you’d be … …..when you were older? oWhat do your friends think you will do and achieve when …..you’re older? Challenge: turn to the people around you, what do they think that you will do after you’ve finished school?
- 6. Our challenge to you… Dare to Dare to follow your Dare to challenge own path. challenge the your beliefs. status quo. Dare to be different Dare to be Dare to from your DIFFERENT challenge friends. yourself. Dare to be diverse.
- 7. Who do you know who has dared to be different? •Entrepreneurs •Different backgrounds • Followed their own path •Challenged the status quo Dared to be different!
- 9. Case Study; Nazeerah Makda Futures’ student 2012 – 2013, Preston “It does not matter whether you are from Poland, you are Chinese, Indian, afro Caribbean, white, as long as you stand out and offer the best of your abilities and have the potential to be incredible at what you do…”
- 10. What do you think about…
- 11. The world of business… Your thoughts… • What company names do you know? • Jobs? Do you have to be… • “Techy Geek” • “Marketing bunny” • Academic • Male
- 12. People in business… Your thoughts… • What kind of people work in business? • Background? • Education? Degree? • Age? • Personality? • Gender?
- 13. Over to you… Attitude vs. Skills…
- 14. The reality… What an employer looks for: • People from all backgrounds • Different abilities • Relevant behaviours/competencies • Men and women
- 15. Jobs in a company… From accounting to law…
- 16. What’s it like to work for a company?
- 17. IBM Futures students home video…
- 18. My company: IBM
- 19. Would you like to join me? IBM Apprenticeship Scheme: – For those who don’t want to go to university – Good GCSEs and A Levels – Salary: £15,000 pro rata Futures Scheme: – Gap year before university – Good A Levels – 9-12 months – Salary: £15,000 pro rata + bonus Placement during university Graduate Scheme
- 21. Let me leave you with this thought…
- 22. What Questions do you have?
- 23. Thank you for your time… Contacts; Helena Eccles helenaec@uk.ibm.com “Dare 2 B Different” connections community
Editor's Notes
- Objective of the slide: Outline the agenda and the purpose of our visit.
- Objective of the slide: personal introduction to yourself, approachable, talk about how you got to IBM.
- Objective of the slide: personal introduction to yourself, approachable, talk about how you got to IBM.
- Ideally get the audience participating, however gauge this as it may be better to let them just think about it and discuss with their friends whilst asking if anybody wants to share their thoughts. Objective of the slide: get the students thinking about their future options and challenging what they already think. Are they copying their parents? Are they following their own paths? Interactive: Ask the audience where they are now. You can ask them to put there hands up for each category so you can judge the audiences future plans. Any correlation between the questions? e.g. Parents are doctors…I want to be a doctor Activity; 1 - 2 mins. Ask for a few examples.
- Objective of the slide: to encourage students to follow their own path. Talk around the slide: Do something that you want to do! Don’t feel pressured t follow the crowd. Parents’ wishes Teachers’ wishes. DARE TO BE YOU.
- Objective of the slide: to use examples of people in the public eye to demonstrate that you can succeed in business despite your background! James Caan – entrepreneur – Dragons Den - Caan left school at 16 with no qualifications but found a job at a small recruitment agency in London and what followed was a highly successful career selling his first company for £93 million Alan Sugar – entrepreneur, technology, did not go to university, disadvantaged background Mark Zuckerburg – FB, technology, college, Martha Lane Fox: Entrepreneur who founded lastminute.com and is leading the government's campaign to get people online Use different entrepreneurs based on diversity of audience…
- Objective – get them to think of positive role models in their lives and what it is that inspires them about these people?
- Objective of slide: to promote diversity with a practical example.
- Objective of the slide: dispel the myths of the workplace. challenge their preconceptions of business and technology. Interactive: ask the question to the audience, responses, encourage them. Give examples yourself. Companies: Zara, Jack Wills, IBM, Cadbury’s
- Objective of the slide: gauge the audience’s beliefs about the types of people who work in business. Interactive: encourage participation, encourage them to offer examples. If unresponsive – give examples yourself e.g. “A man who has been to university and spends a lot of time on the phone” “Highly qualified individuals”
- Objective of the slide: T o challenge the audience’s perceptions of skills needed to do work in business or technology. Behaviours and personality – what employers look for. Skills can be taught. Qualifications – do not necessarily need a degree. Attitude vs. Skills activity: Duration; 5 mins “ Imagine your dream job – love going to work, it is everything you ever dreamed of. You have done so brilliantly that your employers have said; ‘take the year off, we will pay for you to go on a luxurious trip around the world all expenses paid, 5* hotels, travel, luxury. ONE CONDITION; You must find someone to replace you for the year. If they muck up then you must come back to work immediately and pay for everything that you have spent whilst travelling the world and sign your souls away to the business for 25 years.” Question to audience; Which qualities do you think are important when thinking about employing someone? 2 volunteers Flip chart; write down qualities shouted out by audience. E.g. Loyal hard working trustworthy intelligent Encourage them Stop at approx 20 words Go through all the qualities; Behaviour or skill? Interact with the audience; do you think this quality is a behaviour or skill? Draw a “B” or a “S” through the word. Behaviour – part of you, personality, Skill – you can learn, a business can teach you, you gain from experience. Count them up; usually 80% Behaviour 20% Skill What does that tell us? Companies value the type of person you are. e.g. hard working, loyal, punctual. Don’t be put off if you don’t feel that you have necessary skills – you can learn!
- Objective of the slide: to encourage the audience to believe that they are able to work and get jobs due to their skills. They don’t have to have had work experience in the city at the age of 16 to be employed. Talk around the slide, make it interactive, inspiring. Example: Babysitting; punctual, responsible, reliable, job with huge responsibility Duke of Edinburgh Award; organisation, motivation, determination. Opportunities for everyone to demonstrate required behaviours. Backgrounds; expand on this term. Family, school, where you originate from, race, religion.
- Objective of the slide: demonstrate the variety of roles in a company. Pictures of different careers. Point out which picture corresponds to which career. Job roles; Salesman, Lawyer, business person Finance, Master inventor Scientists BUT they all work for a big company
- Objective of the slide: Pictures demonstrating the audience’s possible perceptions of business. Boredom Office Spreadsheets Office cubicles Suits
- Objective of the slide: comic home video. Demonstrates the reality of the working world in business and technology.
- Objective of the slide: video outlining IBM values and the work that IBM does. Demonstrates the range of work in a company.
- Objective of the slide: briefly outline the IBM recruitment schemes. Demonstrate that there are opportunities for young people to go into business after school
- Talk about life as an IBMer, the types of jobs that people do and the opportunities that they get!