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The concept behind All-Inspired

Is to aid students along a career path that is right for them. Giving students a genuine and immersive experience into multiple industries, to try and help them with important future decisions, whilst they are still in education. Whether it’s helping young people with their subject choices or inspiring them to work in a certain field of work, we feel it is important to provide careers guidance, early on. 70% of students, we asked, felt that their school was unable to provide enough careers advice and support and the same amount felt that their work experience did not benefit them when it came to applying for jobs and higher education. With our virtual reality (VR) work placement sessions, we are looking to give students the opportunity of greater choice in their future decisions around their final career route.

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Our taster session options are geared around those job roles that have a high-risk element that work experience opportunities would not allow a young person to partake in due to health and safety (performing brain surgery/welding/driving a crane/building a car engine.) We appreciate that roles need to be attractive to a diverse work force, without having any boundaries. We are mindful as well of the skills shortages that are affecting employers, environmental considerations, and the economy, all of which can make us less competitive with other countries.

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Our concept is important, we want to ensure that students are happy and confident with their career and education choices, before leaving school. This will assist them when choosing their GCSE options and/or the next steps of leaving education. All-Inspired will encourage students along a career path that excites, motivates, and enthuses them.

Product Description

We recognise the importance of workplace visits and feel our virtual reality experiences would further aid the students. Not only to get more out of the future choices, but support those that may decide on a different career path, as well as inspire those that still have not decided.  We appreciate that school trips can be costly, and extremely time consuming to organise, due to risk assessments, planning, staffing and the organisation, both pre trip and on the day itself. 

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We are trying to offer a cost-effective solution that enables a large cohort of students to experience a multitude of workplaces in one single session.

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How are we going to do this?

To offer this to as many students as possible, we appreciate that different groups will need to be offered different experiences as they need to take breaks from the VR and we will not have enough to start with to give each student one.

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Group 1 – Students choosing at least four immersive and interactive virtual experience programmes from a selection of different industries, roles and positions. (GB 5,6).

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Group 2 – Students will be working with the All-Inspired Careers Professional – who will deliver an exciting work-related presentation of the use of our All-Inspired Portal (Student learning management system), including a questionnaire so we can give post workshop/age-appropriate careers advice.  The students will use laptops for research into career options via subject or job titles, labour market information trends, and employability skills.  (GB 2,7).

This portal will enable our schools, students, parents and the businesses we are affiliated with to connect on a regular basis throughout the student’s education.

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All students will complete a questionnaire for the school staff to use, which will enable them to help the students in the future.

At the end of the event every parent will be emailed an information booklet including a link to our portal for careers education, quizzes, jobs of the future, local industry information (including the companies we use for our virtual reality) and employability skills. The different routes available include T- Levels and Apprenticeships (including specific routes to gain work in our sponsor companies) and advice on the importance of work experience.  (GB 2,7)

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The VR Taster Sessions examples that include many of the careers where there are skill shortages.  We would hope to add a lot more in the future.   Could you add images here John

• Logistics, Transport and Haulage - HGV, Plant Machinery Drivers – Students will be able to experience what driving a heavy goods vehicle feels like, basic maintenance requirements, as well as health, and safety considerations.  They will be transporting stone, witnessing it being crushed and continuing its journey to a construction site.

• Warehouse and Distribution - Forklift Truck Driver – Students will be able to experience operating a forklift truck without the red tape of health and safety. The experience will be situated in a busy virtual warehouse and students will be prompted to stack and manoeuvre crates as required by the task at hand.

• Engineering – Mechanical and Electrical Engineers – The students will be able to experience practical engineering.

• Motor Industry - Installation of Electric Vehicle Chargers and Conventional Vehicle Maintenance – Students will be able to undertake an installation project which will take place in a garage of a suburban house. Students will be prompted to carry out tasks safely to install the charger whilst learning about the importance of the sustainability of electric and hybrid vehicles. Students will also learn about what’s under the bonnet of a car, how to maintain a car e.g. topping up oil, how to change a tyre, running diagnostics and much more.

• Construction - Including Plumber, Welders, Bricklayers and Joiners - Students will experience a variety of plumbing tasks including crimping and soldering.  Bricklaying tasks such as cement mixing, cutting bricks and joinery tasks such as using a saw and chisel.  We want to encourage students into risky practical roles that they would not usually be able to experience on traditional school visits. The student will set up welding equipment and complete several tasks as required, fully appreciating the risks involved.

• ICT - ICT Technician - This experience will allow students to be able to take apart and look inside a gaming console or PC. They will then attempt the repairing/refurbishing of the unit and learn about how the console is manufactured and operates. This task will highlight to students the importance of the recycling of materials within the technology industry.

• Sales - This is a setup of a ‘Call Centre’ scenario that allows the students the opportunity to be able to act out a “realistic” call and gain a realistic experience of office-based work.

• Medical - Healthcare workers:  This covers a wide range of procedures, equipment, and positions within healthcare.  For example, keyhole surgery, taking blood, reading ECG monitors, injections, taking X-rays, teeth extraction, using stethoscopes and blood pressure machines as well as learning CPR and other basic first aid with the aim of encouraging them into healthcare roles. 

• Farming - We want to encourage students into sustainable roles, for not just their futures, but the future of the planet. Showing the students, the importance of ‘being green’ can encourage them into jobs within planting and farming, in order to explore more agriculturally based roles. The students would experience driving tractors, combine harvesters, feeding and birthing farm animals. 
   

• Environmental - Energy Analysist - Students would explore different types of renewable energy (such as solar, wind and hydro) and learn the importance of roles within these fields. Students would experience climbing and maintaining a wind turbine and installing solar panels.
   

Plus, many more including the Armed Forces, Manufacturing and Teaching.