West College Scotland is dedicated to providing real-life experience to students, and are seeking your collaboration to make it happen. Are you willing to offer work placement opportunities in finance-related fields for a minimum duration of 21 hours and between the months of April and Mid-June?

As part of WCS commitment to preparing students for the workforce, they're looking for professionals who are open to taking on students for work placements. Your mentorship and guidance can greatly contribute to their growth and development in the finance sector.

If you're interested in offering work placements then please email info@dywwest.co.uk

Additional info on Work Placements:

• We would be hoping for real life work experience in a financial setting for our students. If they could job shadow, or be given a particular task, that would add real value to their future CVs and job interview responses, that would be ideal
• A placement with yourselves would help with our students understanding of class room learning in the real world
• If you can offer placement to 1 or 2 students that would be a great support.
• The Unit actually has a minimum of 21 hours Work Placement activity – this can be extended if that meets the availability of the student and yourselves.
• The timings of the placement are likely to be March -June – again is this flexible although the first two weeks in May would be difficult as the students have an exam in May – 15^th May for this year.

Are you interested in working with young people but don't know where to start?

DYW's free employer training sessions can help increase your confidence in communicating with young people in schools and colleges.

The next session, Inspiring Young Minds, takes place on Friday 24th November, 10am

Register here

Find out about the latest trends in the sector and inspire students to pursue a career in the screen industries.

This session from Skills Development Scotland equips you with all the information you need to raise awareness of the screen industries among students aged 11-19.

They'll challenge common myths about the sector and showcase the variety of roles that are within the reach of young people regardless of their skills and interests.

You’ll come away with up-to-date information and the confidence to inspire your students to set their sights on a career in the screen industries.

Click here to register

#ScotCareersWeek23 is back from 13-17 November!

Scotland has world class career services available for everyone, in every community. #ScotCareersWeek23 helps highlight them to people of all ages across Scotland.

We love to see career journeys and origin stories – that’s what really inspires people. Get involved with DYW's social campaign and share career journeys from you and your colleagues, and have a bit of fun with showing ‘how it started’ and ‘how it’s going’.

It’s easy to join in, simply post two photos which best sum up the start of your career journey and where you are now.

We also have free, easy to use templates for you to use to make your post really stand out. Remember to tag #DYWScot & #DYWWest and use the hashtag #ScotCareersWeek23

Click here to find out more

Good news, once again, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is delighted to deliver Creative Careers Week 2023.

This year. Creative Careers Week 2023 will run from 2nd-6th October, with 3 key aims and 4 main strands of activity. We very much hope your organisation can get involved in any of the strands. To register your interest, complete this FORM and read on to find out more about the programme. 

Aims:

• Raise awareness amongst young people, educators, parents/carers and careers' influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries.
• Inspire young people to consider a career in the creative and cultural industries by highlighting the breadth of roles and range of pathways available
• Encourage and support employers across the creative and cultural industries to engage with young people and education through Creative Careers Week 2023.

Activity

1. Local employer-led activity (DYW Regional Groups): build new and develop existing relationships between DYW regional groups and local creative industries’ employers for the delivery of employer-led activity in/for local schools.
2. Creative Careers Week 2022 social media campaign: raise awareness amongst young people, educators, parents/carers and career influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries by: celebrating the sector and the opportunities available; sharing content digitally including e.g. case studies, videos; signposting to supporter organisations; encouraging participation from employers and wider partners; creating a campaign toolkit to support partner participation using hashtags #CreativeCareersWeek23 and #NoWrongPath.
3. Signposting to partners and supporter resources and activities.

This month we attended the My Climate Path Green Careers Showcase Event at The Studio in Glasgow.

The event hosted a number of Scotland's young people and businesses that demonstrated the green careers currently available across a range of sectors, as well as a number of brilliant guest speakers and a special appearance from First Minister For Further Education, Higher Education & Science of Scotland, Jamie Hepburn.

A group of pupils shared a short presentation on what they had been doing since COP26 in relation to Green Skills and well done to Mearns Castle who also did a showcase at the event. Each school then attended 2 interactive workshops and career talks from Climate Heroes leading the way in sustainability in their industry.

Once again, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is delighted to deliver Creative Careers Week 2022.
This year, Creative Careers Week 2022 will run from 21-25 November, with 3 key aims and 4 main strands of activity. We very much hope your organisation can get involved in any of the strands. To register your interest, complete this FORM and read on to find out more about the programme.

Aims
1. Raise awareness among young people, educators, parents/carers and careers’ influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries
2. Inspire young people to consider a career in the creative and cultural industries while highlighting the breadth of roles and range of pathways available
3. Encourage and support employers across the creative and cultural industries to engage with young people and education through Creative Careers Week 2022. 

Once again, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is delighted to deliver Creative Careers Week 2022.

This year, Creative Careers Week 2022 will run from 21-25 November, with 3 key aims and 4 main strands of activity. We very much hope your organisation can get involved in any of the strands. To register your interest, complete this FORM and read on to find out more about the programme.

Aims
1. Raise awareness among young people, educators, parents/carers and careers’ influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries
2. Inspire young people to consider a career in the creative and cultural industries while highlighting the breadth of roles and range of pathways available
3. Encourage and support employers across the creative and cultural industries to engage with young people and education through Creative Careers Week 2022

STEM West is back!

Our flagship 2022 STEM West event will return on 21st-22nd November at West College Scotland, Clydebank campus.

This event is there to help to inspire young people to choose STEM subjects at school and have employers showcase their industry. When we last held this physically back in 2019, we had over 500 young people attend across the 2 days from schools across our 4 Local Authority areas.

If you are an employer who is interested in showcasing your company and can bring along something interactive or hands on for S3-S4 pupils to engage with over the 2 days then please let us know. Even if you can only attend one of the days, it would be great to still have you come!

Interested in showcasing at STEM West 2022? Email us at info@dywwest.co.uk by 26^th August 2022 

STEM West our annual STEM event - where organisations involved in STEM help to inspire young people to choose STEM subjects at school and showcase early careers in their industry - was held from 22nd-26th November 2021.

We decided to have the event online again due to Covid and asked for employers to create and submit STEM related video content that could be shown in schools.

We wouldn't have been able to have a successful STEM West 21 without all of the amazing employers who put time and effort into creating videos for us.

We want to say a massive thank you to all of the employers who sent us a video for #STEMWest21 and to everyone who has viewed the videos so far! 

#STEMWest will be back next year!

If you've not had a chance to check out the videos then you can see them all on our YouTube channel https://buff.ly/3cMQrjT

You can also check out the list of the great employers we had take part from the attachment below.