Teenager Life Skills - useful for applying to Oxbridge or American Unis

22.10.2013 - 23.10.2013: Workshop, 10am - 5pm

How to: Teenager Life Skills Jamboree

with Edie Lush, Charity Charity, James Uffindell, Rachel Spedding

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Teen­agers Life Skills

A unique two-day half-term all-out event for teenagers. Individual sessions will include: how to interview well, how to write a great CV, how to gain work experience, how to break into the workplace, and how to get into Oxbridge or an American University

1) – How To: interview well. Taught by Edie Lush

Do you come out of career-breaking interviews feeling sure that you have done yourself justice? We all know how engaging and compelling we can be when we are at our most confident, comfortable and natural, but what often happens when we are under pressure and in the spotlight is that the person our friends recognize drains away to leave a drier, less effective version of ourselves. By exploring how to bring ideas, opinions, and interests alive and to make rhetoric concise, accessible and memorable, we’ll work on turning you into an effective, compelling, interesting and, above all, successful.

2) – How To: enhance your CV. Essential advice on careers by Anastasia Baker from Intern Partnership.

3) – How To: write a killer CV. Taught by Rachel Spedding from Bright Network.

The average time an employer takes to scan a CV is just 10 seconds. So what are they looking for? What can you do to stand out from the crowd? A tour de force of what it takes to present yourself well on paper, what it takes to stand out from the crowd and even how to sell yourself into a role before meeting your potential employer.

4) – How To: to get into the working world and how to secure work experience. Taught by Robin Kennedy Wexo (Work Experience Online).

5) – How To: get into Oxbridge- Taught by James Uffindell Oxbridge Applications.

Should I apply to Oxbridge? And what are my chances? What are those admissions tutors at Oxbridge really looking for and how do I stand out at every stage of the application process? From choosing your course to writing the famous personal statement, sitting tough admissions tests and tackling the interview questions like ‘Tell me about a banana…!’, how can you ensure you are demonstrating your ability, potential and motivation at every step?

6) – How to get into a good university to do an interesting course with disappointing grades. Taught by James Barton, MPW

7) – How To: use social media( your online network)  to advance your career. A guide to using Facebook and LinkedIn. Taught by Rachel Spedding from Bright Network.

Do you use Facebook, Twitter, online forums and even LinkedIn? Do you have lots of friends, who in turn know lots of interesting people? Your next contact, your next opportunity could be right in your friends list, or there at the click of a button. So how could you use your social networks to your advantage? How can you raise your online profile to get ahead?

8) – How To : write as well as Orwell. Taught by Charity Charity.


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Edie Lush

Edie Lush is a communication and personal development coach with Charlotte McDougall Associates. She works with clients to make them conscious and consistent in the way they present themselves in their professional lives. She works in presentation and personal impact, winning new business, developing leadership skills and relationship building skills. She has recently coached individuals and teams from Aviva Investors, Barclays Capital, Barclays Wealth Management, Citi, Deutsche, KPMG, GAM, Slaughter and May, Brown-Forman, Deloitte.

Charity Charity

Charity has worked in advertising and related industries for 32 years. As Global Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi, Euro RSCG and J. Walter Thompson she has created brand icons, events, phrases and words that have entered local and global culture. She has also worked in theatre design and journalism. Charity has won Telegraph Travel Writer of the Year and she particularly enjoys working with young writers.

James Uffindell

James read PPE at Mansfield College, Oxford. He founded Oxbridge Applications whilst in his final year at university, with the aim to inform students on the application process and give them the confidence to make a successful application. He has spoken on BBC Radio 4, ITV’s Tonight programme and Channel 4 News and was an advisor to the Times Education Forum on Oxbridge issues. In 2008 James founded Bright Network, a free social careers network, connecting the brightest undergraduates and graduates minds with the opportunities and organisations to develop their careers.

Rachel Spedding

Rachel started out her career as a researcher for Sir David Frost, before working at a communications consultancy handling the communications and media for a number of high-profile corporate and educational organisations. Whilst Managing Director of Oxbridge Applications, Rachel featured in The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Financial Times and on BBC Radio 4 talking about Oxbridge issues. She is co-author of So you want to go to Oxbridge? Tell me about a banana... and now manages recruitment consultancy Bright Network, which helps bright people make the right career connections.