You are warmly invited to join us for the biennial Careers Evening being held next Thursday 7 September @ 6pm - 8pm in the school Chapel. With 30 presenters over five different industry panels, there is a wide range of career journeys being shared.
Our guest speaker, Zoe Hobson - CEO at Runaway Play, Zoe has a strong background in the media industry. She has worked in game production, film production, digital media, print media and television over the last fifteen years. She returned to Dunedin from Auckland, drawn by the start-up and tech scene here.Zoe’s presentation will be followed by an opportunity to engage with two self-selected industry panels. Providing an opportunity to hear the career journey's of up to twelve panelists across your two chosen panels.
Panelists will share their personal career journeys including those aspects you can’t find out online eg:
introductions, sharing who they all are and introducing their current role.
- touching on how they decided on their current career, does this differ from their first steps out of school?
- personal insights into the skills and attributes required within their roles.
- how these have developed (possibly from as early as senior secondary school years)
- which skills and attributes they feel are the most important and why, any they find challenging and why
- how they continue to develop these for their career progression
- how the bulk of their day is spent in their role
other roles/aspects of their life that are important to them / passionate about e.g. sporting, community involvement etc.
Read more at:https://shcs.careerwise.school/post/155
We look forward to seeing you on the night.