Canary Wharf Trip 15th February

On a chilly Wednesday during half term, Team RAISE decided to take our mission outside of the classroom and into the exciting and surprisingly close world of business and commerce: Canary Wharf. The day began with a visit to Credit Suisse, one of Europe's largest commercial and investment banks. We were given a boardroom on the 7th floor to discuss project management for the upcoming talent show and then given an insight and tour around the investment bank.

Once the serious stuff was over we then headed off to a much anticipated Nando's (!) followed by a cool skate at the Canary Wharf ice rink, not to mention a rather embarrassing singsong...

All in all the day turned out to be quite a success with all the girls really getting a sense of the various career opportunities in the financial industry, with a thorough insight into the glamour and gruelling work factors of City life!

A-21

 

 

For those of you who couldn't make it on Wednesday, RAISE will be putting up a talent show to help raise awareness and fight sex trafficking! Check out this video and visit the A-21 website to get more information! Don't forget to return consent forms to Ms.Bradshaw for the Credit Suisse visit! If you don't have one, send an e-mail to raisprogramme@gmail.com and I'll send you one!

http://www.thea21campaign.org/home.php

Working with animals

I found a few things out about what qualifications and experience would be useful for those of you interested in working with animals! Here are some of the links which seem to be most useful!

http://www.hct.ac.uk/courses/ft_animal8.html

http://www.writtle.ac.uk/UG-Animal-Science-and-Animal-Management

The last one looks particularly helpful with giving you information on what qualifications you need to have to eligible to apply for the program and what you can do with a qualification in Animal science and Management in the long run!

Also if you are interested in work experience - Mayhew Animal Home offers work experience for young people and where you can get pretty hands on experience. If you need help with your cover letter or need us to read over the email, we are very willing to help. 

http://www.mayhewanimalhome.org/permalinks/trainingandjobs.php

Volunteering

Hi Ladies,

Last week, we talked about writing your CV and how to sell the skills you have like team work, organisational or interpersonal skills. We looked at the different careers you were interested in and talked about the skills specific to those careers. We found that the skills you need to be successful are very transferable. Both a doctor and an image consultant need to have interpersonal skills so their customers/patients keep coming back.

We then focused on communication skills with the desert island game. There were some great speeches and good responses to the tough questions from the panel. Well done girls!

This week we will be talking about volunteering and we will be thinking about various ways you can get involved. For this session, I would just like you to think of an answer to this question:


Why is it important to volunteer?

See you on Wednesday.
The Raise Team

PS. For half term we have organised a visit to a top investment bank, Credit Suisse. We will give you more information on Wednesday. Please make sure you return the consent forms we give you quickly!