Category: Experience
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23 February, 2020
Placement Spotlight – A week working in the wild with the National Trust
One of the biggest challenges for diversity and inclusion teams is how to reach new and diverse talent at the start of their careers. How do you encourage a student who’s never heard of your industry, let alone your organisation, to consider a career with you? We helped the National Trust to reach a broader […]
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18 December, 2019
Work Experience Inspiration for Every Employer
Work Experience Inspiration for Every Employer Work experience can seem like a daunting task, one that may require a lot of planning and tearing hair out to make sure every second of a student’s day is accounted for. To take the pain out of planning your placements, the Experience Team have compiled their favourite examples […]
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12 November, 2019
Spotlight on Creative Careers – A week with creative agency M&C Saatchi
Spotlight on Creative Careers – A week with creative agency M&C Saatchi As a delivery partner for the Creative Careers programme, S4SNextGen is working with over thirty creative employers to demystify the creative industries through work placements and insight days. Here we share what leading creative agency M&C Saatchi did during their work experience week […]
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Solving Common Misconceptions around Work Experience
Solving Common Misconceptions around Work Experience Hosting work experience students can benefit organisations in many ways – helping to diversify their workforces, feeding into their early talent pipelines and building links with communities, but there are often roadblocks along the way. We solve some of the questions we’re often asked to help you get the […]
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An Autumn update from S4SNextGen
An Autumn update from S4SNextGen Autumn 2019 is one of the most exciting terms yet for S4SNextGen. Speakers for Schools and S4SNextGen welcomed our new chief executive, Jason Elsom, early in the new academic year. Jason joins with a wealth of experience, having held leadership roles in education and technology, and brings his innovative ideas […]
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6 September, 2019
Visual Effects from the inside: school talk & work experience with Industrial Light & Magic
Visual Effects from the inside: school talk & work experience with Industrial Light & Magic Last month, Industrial Light & Magic participated in Speakers for Schools’ Speaker Programme and S4SNextGen Work Experience Programme. First, year 9 and 10 students at Thomas Tallis School had the opportunity to hear from one of the Visual Effects industry’s […]
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30 August, 2019
Demystify Creative and you’ll access Diversity
Demystify Creative and you’ll access Diversity To make better informed decisions and have more options for their futures, students need to know more. They might think that their skills or talents only link to one career – that an interest in the theatre can only lead to acting or that a love of literature only […]
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Penguin Random House gives S4SNextGen students a taste of the world of publishing
Penguin Random House gives S4SNextGen students a taste of the world of publishing World-leading publishers Penguin Random House welcomed eight sixth form students to their Strand offices in August for a week of industry insights and practical experience. The students spent the week with different staff and departments, including publicity, marketing and editorial and learned […]
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18 July, 2019
1,500 S4SNextGen student placements and counting!
1,500 S4SNextGen student placements and counting! We’re very proud to announce that we’ve now had over 1,500 students take place in S4SNextGen placements. That’s over 30,000 hours of work experience at top employers across the UK. From Portsmouth to Edinburgh and Bristol to Bury St Edmunds, students have been taking valuable placements in sectors including Creative, Law, […]
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3 April, 2019
Ever wondered why creative work experience is important?
Ever wondered why creative work experience is important? ‘It’s opened my eyes to the world of theatre’Ana, 15 ‘I thought it’s just a theatre…but it’s actually so much more than that’Shania, 15 ‘This is a brilliant opportunity for me to find out different aspects of the industry’Kewin, 16 The versatility and variety of roles across […]