National Careers Week
Between 3rd and 8th March 2025, we celebrated National Careers Week at Dearne Valley College.
National Careers Week (NCW) is a one-week celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK.
The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people develop awareness and excitement about their future pathways.
What’s on during National Careers Week?
Below shows the exciting line-up which was open to all our students.
Monday 3rd March
Virtual Careers Fair
From today you can also visit the Virtual Careers Fair: https://ncw2025.co.uk/ and take part in further careers activities.
Tuesday 4th March
Careers Fair Day: 9am – 4pm
Dearne Valley College Careers Fair Day poster
During our Careers Fair Day there will be stallholders you can chat to including;
- Align Therapy
- AMRC
- Apollo Safety
- ASOS
- CRT Care
- Derby University
- Mears
- Momentous Football Academy
- Navigate
- Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
- Shaw Trust
- The RNN Group apprenticeships team
- The RNN Group Turing Scheme
- University Centre Rotherham
- Whitbread
Here’s what’s scheduled during the day:
9:30am
– Navigate session with Jude.
10am
– Social care jobs talk with Sally.
– Springpod.
10:30am
– RIDO: Entrepreneurship with Julia Milea.
– Higher Technical Qualifications (HTQs) and University Centre Rotherham (UCR) with Dannielle Nixon.
11am
– Esports talk with Tom Battey.
– Degree apprenticeships talk – Online webinar (1 hour).
11:30am
– Interview tips session with Hazel.
12pm
– Power skills talk with Lucy Barnwell.
1pm
– Navigate session with Jude.
1:30pm
– Momentous Football Academy: Coaching and business start up – Entrepreneur, with Jimmy Whitehead.
2pm
– Physio for Gladiators with Sarah Young.
2:30pm
– Customer service/first impressions talk with Lucy Barnwell.
4pm
– Dietitian and Personal Training: Online with Enzo Guarini.
Virtual Careers Fair
You can also visit the Virtual Careers Fair: https://ncw2025.co.uk/ and take part in further careers activities.
Wednesday 5th March
9am
– Springpod.
10am – 11am
– Life and style of REME – Motor vehicle.
10:30am
– Apollo: Sport, protective services, construction and esports with Luke Palmer.
11am
– Apollo: Sport, protective services, construction and esports with Luke Palmer.
11:30am – 12:15pm
– Paws for a break: Animal care.
12:30pm
– Paws for a break: Animal care.
1pm
– Construction: Project management, skills, relationship building with contractors and stakeholders with Sarah Louise Walker.
4pm
– Dietitian and personal training – Online with Enzo Guarini.
Virtual Careers Fair
You can also visit the Virtual Careers Fair: https://ncw2025.co.uk/ and take part in further careers activities.
Thursday 6th March
From 9am
– Ricoh: Personal brand workshop.
9:30am
– Mears talk to plastering students about their apprenticeship journey.
10am – 11am
– Springpod.
10:30am
– Life and style of REME – Motor vehicle.
– Ricoh: Personal brand workshop.
11:30am
– From start up struggles into industry leadership with Rachel Jones from Iprosurv.
1pm
– Apprenticeships talk with Simon Hartley.
1:30pm
– Hayley from Taylor’s Bodyshop Ltd: A talk for motor vehicle students.
2pm – 2:45pm
– Professional motivational speaker Stephen Seki (HEPPSY) will be talking to students.
4pm
– Dietitian and personal training – online with Enzo Guarini.
Virtual Careers Fair
You can also visit the Virtual Careers Fair: https://ncw2025.co.uk/ and take part in further careers activities.
Friday 7th March
11am – 12pm
– Springpod.
Virtual Careers Fair
You can also visit the Virtual Careers Fair: https://ncw2025.co.uk/ and take part in other careers activities.
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