National Careers Week 2022

The Careers Department celebrated National Careers Week last week with S4 and S5 pupils participating in a virtual Careers Convention.

Pupils watched around 80 different videos covering everything from Accounting to Zoology, and in a new venture, they were also invited along to 7 live talks on Politics, Business, Engineering, Psychology, Marketing and Graduate Apprenticeships.

On the Monday, we were delighted to welcome David Murray (C1982), who having studied Engineering, now works in a commercial role for the Energy sector.

The Tuesday pupils met with Stuart Dunlop (C2011), who now works for Future Space. Later that day, pupils enjoyed hearing from Fraser McIntosh (c2007), who is Operations Manager for the House of Commons European Affairs.

Professor Colin Espie (C1975), who studied Psychology, joined pupils on Wednesday afternoon for a fascinating talk about his role as the Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Thursday morning pupils were joined by Aniket Kumar (C2013), who studied Accounting and Finance, and is now a Senior Associate at PwC.

To finish the series of talks from across the week, former Business and Marketing student, Jeff Hodgson (C1992), spoke about his role as the European Marketing Director of Baxters Food Group.

Thank you to all of our Former Pupils who took part in this event which greatly benefitted our Senior pupils thinking about their future.

S1 and S2 pupils took part in activities designed to help them identify their own skill set and to broaden their horizons about the variety of Career paths open to them. To round-off the week, all Secondary pupils and staff were invited to take part in our first ‘Before They Were Teachers’ quiz.