Your Choices Broadcast
Your Choices is a virtual post-16 and post-18 options event for all young people and their parents/carers in the Swindon and Wiltshire area. The broadcast will feature a range of training opportunities as well as further and higher education providers.
This is an interactive event, giving you the chance to ask questions directly to our local colleges, universities, training providers and employers, to help you in making your future career choices.
Here are some useful links:
Ultimate Guides: Ultimate Guides (ucas.com)
Apprenticeship Ultimate Guides: Ultimate Guides — Finding an apprenticeship (ucas.com)
Careers Quiz: Take The Careers Quiz. What Job Could You Do? (ucas.com)
Subject Tasters: Subject tasters | Virtual and digital, Undergraduate | UCAS
Apprenticeships: Apprenticeships | Learn About Apprenticeships And Find The Right One For You (ucas.com)
Virtual Work Experience: Virtual Work Experiences | Virtual and digital, Undergraduate | UCAS
Employer Profiles: Search | Employers | UCAS
Career Finder: Search apprenticeships | UCAS
MEI: https://mei.org.uk/
SEND Futures Broadcast with Swindon and Wiltshire Careers
Supported Internships are a structured, work-based study programme for 16–24-year-olds who have an education, health, and care plan. Supported Internships utilise a partnership approach to bring together colleges, supported employment providers and host employers to provide a blended, practical, learning experience for young disabled and or neurodivergent people. The Supported Employment model is underpinned by a set of clear values, that ensure people are supported into good quality careers, whilst also meeting the workforce development needs of business, creating positive experiences for all.
In this broadcast you will hear the inspirational stories of young people with learning differences, disabilities, and health conditions in Wiltshire and around the UK. Learn how these young people are progressing their careers through apprenticeships and supported internships and the ways that their employers and training providers are supporting them.
Useful Links:
BASE
BASE YouTube Channel
Supported Internships YouTube Channel
Swindon and Wiltshire Careers Hub Amazing Applications Broadcast
Get to grips with how modern job applications work and how you can achieve successful applications with our Amazing Applications Virtual Broadcast. Get the lowdown from our industry insiders on today’s recruitment practices and how to stand out from the crowd with CV and interview tips, find out what an assessment centre is and get the latest advice on how to approach interviews whether they are in person, virtual, by telephone or recorded as a video.
Useful Links:
Pathway CTM
Hays
Youth Employment Training
Skills for Careers
Hard Hats: High Dreams LIVE read with Swindon and Wiltshire Careers Hub in partnership with Beard Construction on the Primary Live Channel
In the world of construction, where hard hats meet ambition, young builders learn to construct not only buildings but also their own paths to success. Join our heroes as they hammer away at challenges, lay foundations of knowledge, and raise the roof on their dreams!
Remember, every great structure starts with a solid foundation, just like every great career begins with learning and growth. So, let’s build together!
To watch this broadcast, please click here!
Apprenticeships and Technical Education in Swindon and Wiltshire Broadcast
Students – Discover everything you need to know about Apprenticeships and technical routes into employment, what courses are offered at your local colleges, what’s it like to study there and where might these qualifications take you. If you have any questions, you can ask them in the live chat and get answers from our panel of experts.
Careers Leaders – this broadcast has been designed to be PAL compliant for Y8, 10 and 12 students.
It will feature:
An introduction to apprenticeships and technical education from ASK. Wiltshire College and New College outlining the technical education qualifications and apprenticeships that they offer and what learning or training with them is like.
Information about the careers to which those technical education qualifications or apprenticeships might lead and an opportunity for students to ask questions to our experts in the live chat.
Don’t worry if you cannot watch the broadcast LIVE as this will be available on demand straight away!
Useful Links:
T-level Courses – Cirencester College
Apprenticeships at Cirencester College
Swindon – Apprenticeships Showcase (Full broadcast available below)
Our Apprenticeship Showcase broadcast, for all young people in Swindon and Wiltshire, highlights the many opportunities apprenticeships can offer you in our area and gives you the chance to ask questions directly to our local employers and training providers. We will open your eyes to the broad range of careers apprenticeships can lead to and help you to understand what’s available on your doorstep post-16 and beyond.
There will be the opportunity to take part in a pre & post broadcast poll. Your feedback is very important to us. Please see below the links for you to take part:
Pre-broadcast Poll
Post-broadcast Poll
Useful Links:
Network Rail
Longleat
RAF
Wiltshire College
National Trust
Wiltshire Council
Army
Dyson
Wessex Water – Early Careers
Wessex Water – Apprenticeships
Royal Mail
Chemring
New College
Cirencester College
Go Skydive
Swindon & Wiltshire Careers Hub – Your Choices Broadcast (Full broadcast available below)
Your Choices is a virtual post-16 and post-18 options event for all young people and their parents/carers in the Swindon and Wiltshire area. The broadcast will feature a range of training opportunities as well as further and higher education providers.
This is an interactive event, giving you the chance to ask questions directly to our local colleges, universities, training providers and employers, to help you in making your future career choices.
Useful Links:
Swindon & Wiltshire Career Hub – Amazing Applications Broadcast (Full broadcast available below)
Get to grips with how modern job applications work and how you can achieve successful applications with our Amazing Applications Virtual Broadcast. Get the lowdown from our industry insiders on today’s recruitment practices and how to stand out from the crowd with CV and interview tips, find out what an assessment centre is and get the latest advice on how to approach virtual interviews
Helpful Links:
Wessex Inspiration Network
https://www.hays.co.uk/career-advice
Apprenticeships | Careers | Zurich Insurance UK
Zurich Apprenticeships
Home | Dyson Careers
LifeSkills | Developing work and life skills (barclayslifeskills.com)
Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Company Apprenticeship Showcase Broadcast (Full broadcast available below)
An in depth look at the breadth of opportunities apprenticeships can offer in the Swindon and Wiltshire area.
Here are some helpful links:
Find an apprenticeship – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
www.workwiltshire.co.uk
Swindon Local Offer – Employment and skills opportunities
Amazing Apprenticeships
National Apprenticeships Week 2023
Young HPC – Hinkley Point C
Hinkley Point C – Apprenticeships
Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Company Your Choices Broadcast (Full broadcast available below)
Unsure of your next steps in education or training? Join our free virtual event for young people and parents in Swindon and Wiltshire, to hear from colleges, training providers and universities who will be able to guide you on the next steps in your career and present you with the many pathways and choices open to you post-16 and post-18.
Click the here for information and advice from Swindon Borough Council on CVs, virtual interviews and lots more to help you on your way to your dream job, whether you are just about to leave school and looking for your first job, or looking to change your career.
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