Careers Day

 

On Thursday 20 March we were delighted to welcome Councillor Pip Liver, the Town Mayor of Harpenden, to our annual Careers Day. This event is designed to educate our Year 12 students on the wide range of opportunities available to them after Sixth Form, including School Leaver Apprenticeship Programmes and Graduate Schemes.

As the largest event of its kind in the local area, Careers Day welcomed over 900 students from Sir John Lawes School, schools within the Scholars’ Education Trust (including Longdean, Hemel Hempstead, The Priory, Samuel Ryder, Robert Barclay and Highfield), as well as our partner schools—St George’s, Roundwood Park, and Katherine Warrington.

The day featured over 90 businesses, charities, universities and alumni, with employer talks in the morning and a bustling Careers Fair in the afternoon, where the Sports Hall was filled to capacity. Students had the opportunity to explore post Sixth Form career pathways, gain industry insights, and even secure valuable work experience and professional connections.

Now in its ninth year, Careers Day continued to exceed expectations, attracting a high-calibre and diverse range of local, national, and international companies.

'It has been a pleasure to host the Careers Day again. Exam results are obviously key for students but we must combine these with giving them the right exposure to the world of careers. This event allows the students to have a bespoke experience and engage directly with the employers.'

Philip Newbery, Headteacher

Careers Day Video 

 

Thanks to the many organisations who supported the Careers Day:

AD Practice Ltd ARCHITECTS  Alban Teaching School Hub Amazing Apprenticeships  Aon  Apple Army Azalea Balfour Beatty Barhale Barrister BDO BDO Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust British Army BUSINESS AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT  CapGemini Cisco Collaborative Thinking Ltd Communities 1st Computacenter  Cyber Choices Easyjet Energy Park Entrepreneur in Dentistry Everyone Active Freelance Game Designer GSK HARPENDEN BOXING CLUB    Harpenden Dental Centre Harper Collins Hepburn Delaney Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust  Hertfordshire Police Hillier Hopkins In Flow Media InvestIN Iqvia Jacobs James Marshall Foundation Jones Lang LaSalle Keystone Law LB Sound Design Legal & General Leonardo Leonardo LifeArc Love Productions

MA50:A90ACE Group Marvel Mazuno Banking Group MBDA  Mercer & Hole Metis Consulting Microsoft Morrisons MOVEMENT TEACHER  National Film and Television School Newsworks NHS Orthodontist and phramacist Oxfam Picture Shop Powman and Craven Queen Elizabeth Hospital RAF Rayden Solicitors Richard Washbrooke Photos Roots Federation Rothamsted Research Rotork Royal Navy Schroders Self-Employed Acupuncturist Sisk Sky Studios Elstree Slanting Arrow Limited Subway Taylor Walton The Athena Network The Hershey Company The Like Me CIC The Project Box  The University of Hertfordshire Third Kind Games TJX Europe TRL Software Turner and Townsend University of Portsmouth Volker Wessels Volkswagen Wates Welcome Sanger Institute White Tiger Research Wilder Collective Wilmott Dixon XMA Ltd XPO Logistics

 

Our students had spent considerable time researching the companies attending and this was really appreciated by the employers, many of whom commended our students for their knowledge, the quality of questions they asked and the professional way in which they conducted themselves.  In fact, once again many have secured much sought after relevant work experience and contacts to support their future aspirations.

'The Careers Day at SJL was a great opportunity to network with professionals from a wide range of industries. The morning talks provided valuable insight into the many different roles while the Careers Fair allowed us to gain more tailored advice from those who generously gave up their time to contribute to such a useful and insightful event.'

SJL Year 12 student