Pathway CTM have passed over information about an IBM Insight Event on 27/11 - could this be something for you?

The IBM Insight event will be held on the 27th of November from 17:00 – 19:00 GMT at IBM's central London office.     The Insight Event will show you exactly what being a part of IBM’s workforce is truly like! The evening will be a mix of both the current and recent apprentices shedding light on their day to day roles, as well as application advice straight from IBM's recruitment team.  If you want a fulfilling career that rewards talent and performance, are looking for alternatives to university and want to pursue a career within technology, then come along to the event! Pathway CTM strongly encourage you to secure your place for this exciting event today! We hope to see you on the 27th of November.     Book Your Place!

Creating the Future - VIrtual Creative Zone with ARU - Live Event

Creating the Future

Virtual Creative Zone

*Initially developed by the Creating the Future Partnership with support from ARU, UCP, Skills Service, Festival Bridge, NEACO

Tuesday 19^th Nov 2019 11.00am - 12.00pm

Live Broadcast and Q&A

Join us for short, structured, informal conversations with 4 Creative Industry professionall talking about their current work, how they got to this point in their career, the great bits and the challenges they face in their work plus answers to questions sent in live from school students. 

 Professionals guests: -

·         Chris Wood, International glass artist and maker who lives in Ely. Her medium is light. She uses a range of high and low-tech optical materials to harness patterns of light that suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world. Her commissions include works for Fendi Fashion House, Great Ormond Street Hospital, a Scandinavian cruise ship and many more. Wood has recently completed her biggest commission to date for the National Convention and Exhibition Centre in Taipei. 

·         Adam Clarke – aka ‘Wizard Keen’ International Minecraft expert. Adam says it’s nice to be a wizard! For a lot of people, I am Wizard Keen. Often, with the people I know in Minecraft, we call each other by our avatar names not their real names. We like to stay in character. I know a Stampy, Squishy, Dragnoz, Squid and Squidoodley. Minecraft is an amazing game that stimulates your creativity as you build whatever you can imagine, but it’s also great for learning about how to be a good citizen and mining positive connections

·        Miranda Stearn, Head of Learning UCM She leads the Learning Department at the Fitzwilliam Museum, supporting a team dedicated to delivering a creative, inclusive and impactful learning service and enabling more people to be engaged and excited throughout their lives by the Fitzwilliam and other University of Cambridge Museum collections. She is passionate about heritage and culture and how we can get more involved.

·         Jon Cockley - co-founder of Handsome Frank illustration agency. Handsome Frank is a UK based illustration agency representing some of the finest contemporary artists on the planet. Founded in 2010 by cousins Jon & Tom, like all the best ideas it started with a conversation in the pub. They now represent 30 illustrators, spread across five continents and have worked with some of the biggest brands and agencies in the world.

The broadcast will end with a discussion bringing speakers together to talk about what skills and qualities young people might need to develop for careers in this sector.

We encourage schools to think about questions they may like to put to our professionals

 Technical requirements:

·         a good internet connection

·         a device capable of playing back a live video stream

·         example; a laptop and speakers with access to Facebook, that connects via a HDMI cable to a projector/TV screen in a classroom

·         Once you sign up to work with us, we are able to answer more technical question in advance of the broadcast

How to log on:

·         We will supply you with the necessary web log in details once you register interest.

·         please note this will not be playing any content until we go live on the day

·         link will also have a ‘comments’ section where people can ask questions

Participation is free!

Suitable for Yr10 and above and aimed at any pupils with an interest in finding out more about Creative Industry Careers from people who already work in this field.

Next steps

Please give this opportunity serious consideration and then let me know by Friday 15^th November if you are able to join in this innovative event

 

Email me at: -  peterthornton9@ntlworld.com

 

(A recording of the live stream will also be available at a later date.)

Accountancy Opportunities with pwc - Virtual and Actual Events you can engage with...

NATIONAL   Get Your Career Off to a Flying Start virtual event Date: 11-Nov-2019 Time: 4:30 PM Description: Find out more about our Flying Start programmes at PwC. We run a range of Flying Start programmes in Accounting, Business and Technology.    Get Your Tickets!   Virtual event: In the Spotlight - Risk Assurance  Date: 12-Nov-2019 Time: 4:15 PM Description: Come and join our PwC virtual event. Spend some time with us to find out about Risk Assurance and the career opportunities available.   Get Your Tickets!   School and college virtual event  Date: 19-Nov-2019 Time: 4:00 PM Description: Find out more about our School and College leaver programmes and the career opportunities available at PwC. This session will focus on our work experience opportunities.   Get Your Tickets! PwC Schools office open event - Cambridge Date: 18-Nov-2019 Time: 6:00 PM Description: Attending one of our office based events will give you the chance to discover more about life at PwC.

 

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Employee earnings in the UK: 2019

Commenting on today’s figures, ONS senior statistician Roger Smith said:

“Earnings continued to increase in the latest year. In recent years this has been fastest among the lowest-paid occupations. However, taking inflation into account, real pay is still some way below its pre-crisis level.

“The gender pay gap has been falling slowly in recent years for full-time employees, but in 2019 it was little changed. However, for employees under 40, the gap is now close to zero; it’s among older workers that the pay gap remains substantial.”

The ONS has today published the 2019 findings of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. As with last year’s result, there are now three separate bulletins, one looking at the overall results, one looking at the gender pay gap and the third looking at the distribution of high and low earnings.

Main points

• Median weekly earnings for full-time employees reached £585 in April 2019, an increase of 2.9% since April 2018.
• In real terms (after adjusting for inflation), median full-time employee earnings increased by 0.9% in the year to April 2019.

The following releases are available below:

The Employee earnings in the UK: 2019 

The Gender pay gap in the UK: 2019 

The Low and high pay in the UK: 2019 

New Creative Careers Programme website

A new website to help young people discover the range of jobs available across creative industries is now live. DiscoverCreative.Careers is designed to help students and their parents and teachers find out more about careers in industries including advertising, architecture, fashion, film and television, museums and galleries, performing arts and publishing - and the routes to them.

 

The Creative Careers Programme aims to show that such careers are financially sustainable and have a comparatively low risk of automation. There are currently more than 77,000 vacant positions.

Automation Investment Attracts Employees

Nearly half of employees in the UK would be attracted to work for an organisation that was investing in automation, or has plans to do so, however organisations are failing to promote their investment in automation to potential job candidates, according to Hays.

The research found that 48% of employees would be attracted to work for an organisation that was investing in automation or has plans to do so. At the same time, while 70% of firms are investing in automation, 24% do not currently promote their technological investment in any way when hiring.

UK Productivity Falls

Labour productivity in the UK, as measured by output per hour, fell by 0.5% in the second quarter of 2019 ended June 2019 when compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to new data released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). This follows two previous quarters of zero growth.

The data from ONS reports labour productivity estimates for the second quarter of 2019 for the whole economy and a range of industries, together with estimates of unit labour costs. Both services and manufacturing saw a fall in labour productivity growth of -0.8% and -1.9% respectively, compared with the same quarter in the previous year.