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Career WorkOut volunteering is good for Women in Transport
Sonya Byers, CEO of Women in Transport, recently volunteered in a Virtual Career WorkOut session with Year 8 students from St. Paul’s RC School. “It was suggested to me by another volunteer, Gary Lincoln of TXM Group, who is very passionate about Worktree,” she...
If you are considering volunteering 40 mins of your time to a virtual Career WorkOut session, just go for it! – Kaseya Chisala, Network Rail
Kaseya Chisala has been a Graduate Project Manager for Network Rail since September 2021 and before that studied Chemical Engineering at university. Kaseya took part in her first virtual Career WorkOut session with Year 7 students at St Paul's School. Read on to...
Hundreds of children visit MK Innovates exhibition
Hundreds of Milton Keynes schoolchildren enjoyed their chance to play Worktree’s Find Your Job cards game at theMK Innovates STEM show in Middleton Hall, thecentre:mk. Worktree Chair Alan Bullen and trustees Ayesha Shokar and Rachel Brockway organised and ran the...
The opportunity to understand and explore an industry that one day may become a young person’s future is invaluable – Hannah Towns, Amazon
Hannah Towns is an Operations Intern at Amazon and has only been in her role for 3 months. Hannah approached Worktree a few months ago to discuss getting involved with Worktree events. Read on to find out more about why Hannah wants to get involved. "I came across...
Inspiring young people by providing a real example of work – Meredith Cade-Westcombe, Xero
Worktree welcomes Xero, a cloud accounting software business, as the latest local company to join its Virtual Career WorkOut program. Early in March Meredith Cade-Westcombe, a Customer Experience Team Leader (Banking & Security) for Xero since 2015, took part in...
Virtual Career WorkOut launches in MK schools
After several months in development, including seven trials with more than a hundred pupils across the full age range in four secondary schools, Worktree launched its new Virtual Career WorkOut sessions to all MK schools at the start of November. By end of term in...
Find Your Job in 25 Conversations
Worktree is pleased to launch its new guidebook for job-seekers, Find Your Job in 25 Conversations. Based on more than 10 years delivering employability training workshops in UK and beyond, this book enables you to seek and secure work by asking the right people the...
MK Council funds Career WorkOut onlining
Milton Keynes Council has provided Worktree with a grant from its Economic Recovery fund for the onlining of Career WorkOut. "We are thrilled to be in this new partnership with MK Council," said Worktree's Tom Bulman. "We share a vision of MK secondary schools...
Community Foundation provides vital support
MK Community Foundation has awarded Worktree a Community Grant to develop online resources in response to Covid. The project will develop its Career Snapshot library and a virtual form of Career WorkOut. The work has begun, in a collaboration with Prominent Media and...
Career Snapshot and Worktree survival
Covid 19 has shaken Worktree to its roots. What, no more face-to-face employer encounters in schools?! The team’s creative juices have had to flow and we’ve come up with an exciting online offer including Career Snapshot videos, live Virtual Career WorkOut sessions...
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