Post by grant on Feb 22, 2010 13:01:57 GMT
Hello everyone
Found this on Twitter which suggests Hayley will be attending "Breaking The Mould" careers conference shortly.
The conference takes place at the InterContinental Hotel on 1st March and you can see the full article HERE
Best wishes
Grant
Found this on Twitter which suggests Hayley will be attending "Breaking The Mould" careers conference shortly.
Hayley Westenra, the international classical singing sensation, has confirmed she’d love to attend Breaking the Mould
Posted by Lisa Buckingham on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 11:31 am.
Hayley is, of course, a fantastic role model for young women and immensely talented.
How exciting! With only just over a week to go before this year’s Breaking the Mould careers conference, Hayley Westenra, the international classical singing sensation, has confirmed she’d love to attend.
Hayley is, of course, a fantastic role model for young women – immensely talented but also already willing to give incredibly generously of her time for a variety of charities, most notably UNICEF which made her its youngest ever ambassador.
She will be joining a panel at the conference that will be looking at careers working for charity which will feature Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children, Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, Sophi Tranchell, managing director of Divine Chocolate and Jane Keeper of Refuge, the charity that works for the victims of domestic violence.
We’ve organised what I hope will be many other really interesting panels kicking off with one that will look at apprenticeships as an alternative way into the workforce now that many young people might be reluctant to shoulder the burden of debt that can result from going to university.
We’ll be taking a peek inside NatWest which has generously volunteered to be a guinea pig for a panel that will look at the hidden jobs to be found within a big organisation. The idea behind this session is to say to the girls: ‘OK, it might have Bank written over the front door, or Pharmaceuticals or Telecoms, but inside there is a whole range of jobs such as HR, community involvement, overseas development. PR etc etc.’ And with most youngsters today likely to have working lives of 50 years or so, it could be helpful for them to consider joining a large organisation that could offer a variety of roles during that time span.
Three great supporters of the Financial Mail Women’s Forum – Sarah Hunt of EquityFD, Karen Gill and Maxine Benson of everywoman.com – have agreed to stage a panel called second thoughts. All three have made radical shifts of career in their working lives. They will discuss issues such as the ease with which you can change direction, the fact that it isn’t the end of the world if you make a duff choice of first job and how each new opening can present stimulating and enjoyable challenges.
One of the sessions I’m most looking forward to is called Sleuthing and will look at investigatory jobs of all kinds. Phillippa Williamson, chief executive of the Serious Fraud Office will front the panel talking about her life trying to track down the Mr Bigs of financial crime while Detective Chief Inspector, Gill Evans, will talk about how she and her team tackle organised crime on the streets of London. They will be joined by Anne Evans who investigates aircraft crashes for the Air Accidents Investigations Branch – I remember visiting the AAIB’s operations centre at Farnborough as a young reporter and listening to some of the black box recordings of doomed flights: quite chilling but utterly fascinating. Then Dorothy King will talk about piecing together history as an archaeologist.
I’m sure the girls will be really interested in the group of women we’ve got to look at careers to do with the senses – an optometrist, a physiotherapist, an audiologist, a wine taster, a perfume ‘nose’ and a food scientist.
And as you would expect from a conference that challenges young women to look at alternative careers we will have a presentation from serial entrepreneur, Sara Murray who set up confused.com and now runs buddi, there will be a panel looking at all aspects of working in technology while senior O2 executive, Danuta Gray will talk about what the future of telecoms might offer in the way of careers for ambitious young girls.
Regular visitors to FMWF.com will already know that the glittering finale to the conference will be the live final of our MoneySense Apprentice Challenge which will see four teams competing live in front of our invited audience. The judges will be Margaret Mountford, best known as Lord Alan Sugar’s adviser in the BBC’s Apprentice series, Saira Khan and Tim Campbell who both shot to prominence in the TV show.
If you know a young woman who you think would enjoy the conference we still have a few places left at the InterContinental Hotel on March 1. You can register your interest by emailing my PA, Jackie Jay. (jackie.jay@mailonsunday.co.uk).
Posted by Lisa Buckingham on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 11:31 am.
Hayley is, of course, a fantastic role model for young women and immensely talented.
How exciting! With only just over a week to go before this year’s Breaking the Mould careers conference, Hayley Westenra, the international classical singing sensation, has confirmed she’d love to attend.
Hayley is, of course, a fantastic role model for young women – immensely talented but also already willing to give incredibly generously of her time for a variety of charities, most notably UNICEF which made her its youngest ever ambassador.
She will be joining a panel at the conference that will be looking at careers working for charity which will feature Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children, Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, Sophi Tranchell, managing director of Divine Chocolate and Jane Keeper of Refuge, the charity that works for the victims of domestic violence.
We’ve organised what I hope will be many other really interesting panels kicking off with one that will look at apprenticeships as an alternative way into the workforce now that many young people might be reluctant to shoulder the burden of debt that can result from going to university.
We’ll be taking a peek inside NatWest which has generously volunteered to be a guinea pig for a panel that will look at the hidden jobs to be found within a big organisation. The idea behind this session is to say to the girls: ‘OK, it might have Bank written over the front door, or Pharmaceuticals or Telecoms, but inside there is a whole range of jobs such as HR, community involvement, overseas development. PR etc etc.’ And with most youngsters today likely to have working lives of 50 years or so, it could be helpful for them to consider joining a large organisation that could offer a variety of roles during that time span.
Three great supporters of the Financial Mail Women’s Forum – Sarah Hunt of EquityFD, Karen Gill and Maxine Benson of everywoman.com – have agreed to stage a panel called second thoughts. All three have made radical shifts of career in their working lives. They will discuss issues such as the ease with which you can change direction, the fact that it isn’t the end of the world if you make a duff choice of first job and how each new opening can present stimulating and enjoyable challenges.
One of the sessions I’m most looking forward to is called Sleuthing and will look at investigatory jobs of all kinds. Phillippa Williamson, chief executive of the Serious Fraud Office will front the panel talking about her life trying to track down the Mr Bigs of financial crime while Detective Chief Inspector, Gill Evans, will talk about how she and her team tackle organised crime on the streets of London. They will be joined by Anne Evans who investigates aircraft crashes for the Air Accidents Investigations Branch – I remember visiting the AAIB’s operations centre at Farnborough as a young reporter and listening to some of the black box recordings of doomed flights: quite chilling but utterly fascinating. Then Dorothy King will talk about piecing together history as an archaeologist.
I’m sure the girls will be really interested in the group of women we’ve got to look at careers to do with the senses – an optometrist, a physiotherapist, an audiologist, a wine taster, a perfume ‘nose’ and a food scientist.
And as you would expect from a conference that challenges young women to look at alternative careers we will have a presentation from serial entrepreneur, Sara Murray who set up confused.com and now runs buddi, there will be a panel looking at all aspects of working in technology while senior O2 executive, Danuta Gray will talk about what the future of telecoms might offer in the way of careers for ambitious young girls.
Regular visitors to FMWF.com will already know that the glittering finale to the conference will be the live final of our MoneySense Apprentice Challenge which will see four teams competing live in front of our invited audience. The judges will be Margaret Mountford, best known as Lord Alan Sugar’s adviser in the BBC’s Apprentice series, Saira Khan and Tim Campbell who both shot to prominence in the TV show.
If you know a young woman who you think would enjoy the conference we still have a few places left at the InterContinental Hotel on March 1. You can register your interest by emailing my PA, Jackie Jay. (jackie.jay@mailonsunday.co.uk).
The conference takes place at the InterContinental Hotel on 1st March and you can see the full article HERE
Best wishes
Grant
