Schools
WTS London Schools and Colleges Engagement
Strategy
In
March 2008, the Womens Transportation Seminar London hosted a
Schools Roundtable where representatives from the transport
industry, schools, universities, and sector skills councils met to
discuss how to make transport a job for the girls. The discussion
highlighted the need to challenge the misconceptions around the
industry, to better coordinate available information and existing
initiatives and to market the industry in a more exciting and
positive light. From these discussions, WTS London has developed an
Action Plan outlining a number of strategic initiatives to improve
the perception of the transport industry amongst young women and
girls. The Action Plan can be viewed here.
Your chance to get involved
At WTS London, we are keen to see women enter the full range of fascinating careers in the transport sector. Our Action Plan goes some way to addressing this but we can only do so much. That is why we are partnering with the not-for-profit organisation Growing Ambitions to encourage our members, friends, supporters and sponsors to undertake career speaking. We are urging everyone to volunteer a half-an-hour of their time to talk about their job and career to young people near where they live or work.
Careers advisers are often under-resourced and need the input from the world of work. The young people they advise need information to help them make informed career choices.
Whether you are a member, sponsor, supporter or a visitor to our site, you can sign up through our volunteering portal below - it takes just a few minutes. Speak just once, or as many times as you like at a time and location that is convenient for you.
The Four Steps
- Register to Speak (this takes just a few minutes to complete
the page online)
- Wait to be contacted by a careers adviser (from a school, college or university near your home or workplace)
- Communicate by email with them to fix a good date and time
- Go in and speak.
REGISTER TO SPEAK Register/login
Dont forget to encourage your colleagues and friends to volunteer to Register to speak about their jobs as well.
Click the Register/login link to find some useful FAQs.
You can also read through the
Speakers Guide for some useful tips.
FIND A SPEAKER
Are you a school, college or university looking for careers speakers in the transport sector? You can access career speakers UK-wide if you create an Education Account. This enables you to search for Speakers from your local area.
