In Renfrewshire Council there are several exciting opportunities open to you in your Senior Phase to prepare you for life beyond school. The Senior Phase Pathways Offer highlights Renfrewshire Council’s increased focus on skills for life and work, accreditation of Wider Accreditation and Achievement programmes and more work-based learning choices you can undertake in S4, …
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Category:Careers
SDS Webinar
Parents and carers – want to discover how SDS can help you have meaningful career conversations with your young person? Join a free webinar to learn some practical hints and tips and put your questions to SDS Careers Advisers. Register here: https://meaningfulcareerconversations.eventbrite.co.uk
SDS in Schools Parent Survey
SDS would like to hear from you SDS advisers work in schools and with pupils and parents. We are keen to find out what parents think of the service offered and to suggested changes they would like to see. If you could complete the survey in the link below it would be appreciated. It should …
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Vacancies at Thales for 2022
A big thankyou to Lynne Watson the HR Director and local parent for sending us the links to the vacancies. Lynne has also provided us some hints and tips with a video from last year’s Depute Head boy at Park Mains talking about how to succeed at Thales recruitment process. Lynne has previously done presentations …
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Interview Skills Workshop
Many thanks to Alison Burnett, People Manager at Morrisons Erskine, who came in on Friday to lead an employability workshop with some of our senior pupils. It was a really practical session, full of good ideas and tips aimed at landing that perfect job.
My World of Work Ambassadors
Many thanks to our group of S3 pupils who have been extremely busy this week delivering lessons to S1 classes. This has involved getting them registered on the SDS My World of Work website and demonstrating how it can be used to plan their careers throughout their time at Park Mains High School. Throughout the …
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SDS Broadcast for S1 Parents
SDS broadcast a live webcast to discuss career planning and help your child can expect throughout school. Showing our website and tools to help with subject choice help and for finding out about their skills and strengths. The broadcast was recorded and can now be found on https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/parents/topics My World of Work for parents and carers …
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BAE Shipyards Recruitment
BAE Systems will open recruitment for summer 2022 apprentices in November. We expect them to take around 70 apprentices in 2022.
January Start College Courses Now Avalible
Courses are open at: City of Glasgow College https://www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk/studying-city/january-start-courses Glasgow Clyde College https://www.glasgowclyde.ac.uk/january West College West have some November start courses full time until June. https://www.westcollegescotland.ac.uk/courses/autumnwinter-2021/ There is a glitch with their January start courses on website and should appear on Monday.
Graduate Apprenticeships for 2022
There are a few graduate apprenticeships to start Sept 2022. Applications are now open on www.apprenticeships.scot Engineering Electronics and Mechanical with Thales, Graham, Civil Engineering with Arch Henderson and Amey. Degrees and experience and salary. Business graduate apprentice with Atkins and Retail Management with Morrisons. Check them out. Pupils can check them out on their …
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