An East Kilbride tech agency is nearly visiting a neighborhood highschool to share different profession paths into the trade.
As a part of Nationwide Careers Week, each day lessons and workshops will likely be nearly supplied to youngsters at Lesmahagow Excessive Faculty by cloud-based software program consultants Eureka Options.
HR and Studying and Improvement Supervisor, Stephanie Kelly, will likely be main the workshops to speak to pupils about her journey and the number of roles out there within the trade, whereas being readily available to reply questions and supply recommendation.
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Stephanie, 38, mentioned: “To lift consciousness about careers within the tech trade with Scottish pupils is extraordinarily necessary. It’s not a typical profession path to take up when leaving highschool, however it may be a rewarding one.
“Scotland has a budding tech scene and there's a plethora of choices throughout totally different roles within the trade. It’s been nice to have the chance to focus on this to our subsequent era of tech consultants and information those that could also be not sure of what profession path they wish to go down at this stage.”
In addition to elevating consciousness concerning the alternatives for younger individuals in Scotland’s tech scene, Stephanie may also be discussing Eureka Options upcoming graduate apprenticeships.
Within the coming weeks, Eureka Options is to launch graduate apprenticeships for college and school leavers seeking to get hands-on trade expertise, while reaching a college diploma qualification and incomes a wage on the similar time.
With greater than 500 pupils at Lesmahagow Excessive Faculty, Stephanie mentioned the tech alternatives with pupils starting from second to fifth yr.
Marc Campbell, college head for applied sciences and digital literacy at Lesmahagow Excessive Faculty, mentioned: “Growing the talents of our pupils to organize them for studying, life and work is a core a part of our each day work. We're delighted and really excited to have secured this new partnership between Eureka Options and Lesmahagow Excessive Faculty.
“Via collaboration with Eureka Options and utilising their experience, the College of Applied sciences and Digital Literacy will be capable of supply sensible workshops for younger individuals.
"The workshops will enrich the educational expertise for our younger individuals, permitting them to use their topic and curricular information in an thrilling and sensible manner, within the context of a real-life office.
“This may allow younger individuals to see the relevance of their curricular abilities, taking their studying past the classroom.
"It's also the proper alternative for younger individuals to establish numerous profession pathways when it comes to additional training or employment that they might select to comply with sooner or later.
“This partnership with Eureka Options will assist our learners to construct their abilities for studying, life and work.”
Eureka Options is a £4.5m-a-year enterprise with 65 workers and purchasers throughout tech, sport, hospitality, non-profit, wholesale distribution, ecommerce and different sectors. In addition to specialising in NetSuite and Sage it additionally presents a proprietary programs integration device, Cloud Knowledge Change.
Having operated for greater than 17 years, Eureka Options is broadly recognised as a frontrunner in unifying the enterprise programs of rising organisations.
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