Skills Yorkshire and the Humber

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  Skills Yorkshire and the Humber is the biggest skills and careers event happening in the region. Aimed at 14-19 year olds this free event will inspire and motivate.  Hands on interactive features will give you a chance to get a real taste of different future career options whatever your dreams or ambitions.

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  Get along to Skills Yorkshire and the Humber, the region’s biggest skills and careers event for 14-19 year olds.  Whether you’re at school or college, starting work, a teacher, parent/carer or family this is the one event that could change your future.  Visit and be inspired, motivated and thrilled with over 70 organisations providing interactive features from every major career sector imaginable.

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  Why Exhibit?

  Skills Yorkshire and the Humber will be the region’s biggest skills and careers event for 14-19 year olds. As an exhibitor you will be meeting the next generation of employees for your organisation. With the emphasis on interactivity visitors get the chance to touch, feel and experience first hand the huge range of careers available and you get the chance to show what your organisation has to offer.

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Whatever your dreams or ambitions there will be something to inspire you at Skills Yorkshire and the Humber. The event is the place to try out your future and get hands on with the exciting demonstrations. Get a makeover finding out about careers in beauty therapy, fix a car finding out about a career in motor mechanics, blow your top finding out about careers in chemistry.  Wherever you want to go in the future, find your route at Skills Yorkshire and the Humber.

Opening Times

Wednesday 8 October 9.30am – 3pm & 5pm – 7pm
Thursday 9 October 9.30am – 3pm

You can visit Skills Yorkshire and the Humber at any time. With so much to see we offer special staggered slots for big groups so everyone gets a chance to try the interactive features. We recommend visiting the event for approximately two hours.

What’s happening?

Apprenticeships
Would you like to be paid to learn? Come along to the meet the team from Apprenticeships. Interactive screens will guide you through the careers tree and you can find how to climb your way to the very top. Meet apprentices already working and training their way to success and find out what it’s really like to be a modern apprentice.

Come face to face with techology
Meet a 6 ft robot called Sid with a Spitting Image face.  Sid is being brought along to Skills Yorkshire and the Humber by Brinsworth Training, who will be using Sid to teach their trainees how to diagnose pneumatic faults and practice programming.  Engineering is often seen as a dirty skill but Sid proves that engineering is cutting edge and automatic, come along and shake his hand.

Does an army march on its stomach?
Find out with the Army Chefs who will be cooking up a storm in the mobile catering unit. The Army offers a range of different career paths and you can taste the opportunities available in catering, try a practical demo with Army combat medical soldiers or take the challenge of scaling the climbing wall. There will be soldiers on hand to answer your careers questions from joining the bomb disposal team to participating in musical and ceremonial duties. You can also meet the Royal Navy and Marines and the RAF at Skills Yorkshire and the Humber.
 


Get your adrenalin pumping
Barnsley College’s sports students will be putting visitors through their paces with fitness tests followed by a quick health check by the health and social care students. Or just pump up the volume with the music staff that taught the Arctic Monkeys and try your hand at mixing, producing or running a recording studio.

Stress buster
Visit Bradford College’s stand and you can enjoy an Indian head massage and hand massage whilst finding out about the courses on offer from GCSEs to university level. Or talk to Oracle Training and try hair put ups and nail art.



A career in horseracing?
Saddle up and prepare for the ride of your life with Careers in Racing and find out about a career with in the horseracing industry. Try the mechanical horse and see if you have what it takes to get to the finishing post.



Industry action
The UK's most innovative and world class businesses are looking for the next generation of scientists, engineers and designers, technicians and industry leaders. Most stuff people use in their everyday lives is made by the chemical, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymer industries including the prizes you could win when you visit the Cogent Sector Skills stand. Try the Periodic Table quiz, work out the 3d molecule demonstration and talk to the team.

Seeing is believing
How well can you function without sight? Visit the Henshaw’s College stand and try performing daily living tasks with simulated sight loss.

Locked up
Visit the HM Prison Service stand and you could find yourself behind bars! There will be an actual sized prison cell so you can sample what life is really like for people in prison. You can talk to staff about the various career options available and the benefits offered.



Steel yourself
Corus, NAMTEC and Smart will be at Skills Yorkshire and the Humber.  Demonstrating smart materials which react to their environments, find out the bizarre things metals can be made to do when you know how! Find out about local metals and the many regional businesses.

Do you worry about debt?
You can test your financial skills with the Money Tree Game and Money for Life interactive software when you visit the National Skills Academy Financial Services stand. Learning how to manage your money is one of the most important skills for your future.

Healthy careers
Visit the NHS stand and find out about the wide range of careers available. It’s more than doctors and nurses and you can try interpreting an x-ray, see how clean your hands really are, learn basic life support and match salaries to different jobs.

Or is it a life on the ocean waves for you? Visit the Ship Safe stand and find out about sponsored university degrees and try a navigating a ship simulator.

Performances

Exciting performances will keep you entertained over the two days.

Barnsley College
Circus Skills
Learn to tightrope, juggle and perform circus skills in this fun, exciting activity by our performing arts students
Ring of Fire
Put your team working skills to the ‘Ring of Fire’ test by our public service students.

Doncaster College
Dream Sequence
Students from the BA (Hons) dance Ppactice degree at University Centre Doncaster perform a dance piece choreographed by Kate Sicchio.

Oracle Training
Bring you a thrilling and exciting catwalk display to showcase the talents of their current hair and beauty learners. The theme is English Heritage, so sit back and enjoy the show!

The Sheffield College
• A fantastic demonstration of food preparation and techniques to encourage students of all ages.
• A visual delight and catwalk show of fashion student’s work and media make-up from award winning students.

A full timetable will be on display at the event.

Ask The Experts

You’ll get expert advice about everything from starting your own business to writing the perfect CV.  Come along to ask the experts in our advice and guidance area and find out about the career options open to you.Our Ask the Experts clinics includes:

ask the experts on ‘Apprenticeships’
provided by Apprenticeships – Yorkshire and the Humber

ask the experts on ‘Careers Guidance’
provided by Nord Anglia

ask the experts on ‘Careers Guidance’
provided by Sheffield Futures

ask the experts on ‘Starting your own Business’
provided by Enterprising Yorkshire

ask the experts on ‘Further Education’
provided by Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education

ask the experts on ‘Higher Education’
provided by Sheffield Hallam University

Who's There?

Click here to view a list of exhibiting companies. You can click through to the company websites to see more. Lots of companies offer different career paths so you can find out more and make a really great first impression.

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