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HOTSW Career Hub News | October 2020

Welcome Back!!

Welcome back from all at the HotSW Careers Hub.

As you know, from this September we are expanding our hub to include all secondary schools and colleges (including SEND and Alternative Provision) across the area.

We are hoping to build on the community of best practice sharing that has been developed over the last two years and we are really excited to be working with new schools and careers leads over the coming academic year.

We appreciate that the situation may seem a little difficult right now, however we are here to support you and your schools to continue to deliver fantastic careers related activities – albeit potentially in a different way.

To help with this – the Careers & Enterprise Company and Gatsby have produced the Careers in Context – can do guide, framed around each Benchmark. The advice and tips within it have been designed to help Careers Leaders assess how to deliver Careers over the next academic year.

Feel free to contact your Enterprise Coordinator or Enterprise Adviser to see how they can help.

Download Careers In Context Guide

HOTSW Virtual Careers Leader Conference 4th November 2020 10:00am – 1:30pm

We may not be able to get together in person this term, but we are delighted to be able to invite you to our virtual Careers Leader Conference on 4th November, from 10.00am – 1.30pm.

Hear from expert guest speakers, take part in live networking, tour the Education Expo Zone and put questions in the live panel discussion.

Don’t worry if you can’t stay for the whole event as you can dip in and out of any the sessions. The event will also be recorded and made available to delegates so you can catch up with anything you missed at a later date.

Keynote speaker: John Yarham, acting CEO, The Careers & Enterprise Company

Sessions include:
Talentino – Same but Different Career Development Model
Barclays Life Skills – Resources to Support Schools and Learners
NHS Early Careers – Showcasing Apprenticeships within the NHS
Cosmic Digital – Using LinkedIn to build your Alumni

Plus more to be confirmed…

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      David Ralph

      Chief Executive

      David Ralph started as Chief Executive of Heart of South West LEP at the beginning of June 2018. Previously, he had spent 5 years as CEO of the Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (D2N2) LEP from 2013 where he oversaw the development of the D2N2 Strategic Economic Plan and sector strategies, 3 Growth Deals with HM Government to deliver a £1billion capital investment programme, securing and implementing £200m ESIF programme, the Derby and Nottingham Enterprise Zone, the D2N2 Skills Deal and Time for Innovation programme, community fund and led the executive team to develop the HS2 East Midlands hub. He was also closely involved in the proposed North Midlands Devolution Deal and one of the key architects in establishing the Midlands Engine, chairing the officer steering group. Whilst in this role David was a NED of the Nottingham Enterprise Zone, and Marketing NG, the Outer Estates Foundation and a Governor of Nottingham College and on the advisory Board of Nottingham Business School.

      Before the East Midlands, David was CEO of the Have Gateway Partnership working closely with local stakeholders including the ports of Felixstowe, Harwich and Ipswich and BT Adadastral Park across Suffolk and Essex and prior to that was Chief Exec of the Barton Hill New Deal for Communities programme in Bristol and the Nelm Development Trust in Norwich.

      David is a keen sailor, walker and trail runner.