Sustainable Careers Fair takes place from Monday 17th June to Friday 21st June 2024. The week will showcase sustainable careers in our 8 industry sectors, one each morning (9:45 and 10:45 sessions) and afternoon (11:45 and 13:45 sessions), excluding Monday and Friday where there will only be a single sector.
Sessions will last 30 minutes with two for each industry and have two types of sessions available:
Sector Overview sessions will involve a speaker who is senior in that industry providing details of the range of sustainable careers available in that sector.
Career Inspiration Talk sessions will have a speaker(s) in a sustainable career sharing their personal career journey, highlighting hurdles faced, how to follow their footsteps and advice they wish they’d had when younger.
All sessions are free to attend and delivered via MS Teams (Glow not required). Sessions will also be recorded and will be added to the page once the week has concluded for those unable to attend live. Look forward to seeing you there, any questions please get in touch.
| DATE | INDUSTRY | TIME | TOPIC | INFO |
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Monday 17th June |
Space | 11:45 | Sector Overview | Richard Osborne is AstroAgency’s Chief Technology Officer, and a launch systems/strategic foresight expert. He previously worked as Programme Manager at an orbital launch company, launchers, spaceports and propulsion consultancy for companies including Reaction Engines and Airborne Engineering, systems engineering and analysis for numerous space industry projects including ESA payloads to the Mir space station, and Mars missions. |
| Space | 13:45 | Career Inspiration Talk |
Derek from Skyrora will talk about his career journey and how Ecosene is making space travel more environmentally friendly. |
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| Tuesday 18th June | Industrial Biotech | 09:45 | Sector Overview | Mark, CEO of Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre, will talk about the range of sustainable and green jobs available in the Industrial Biotech sector |
| Industrial Biotech | 10:45 | Career Inspiration Talk |
Aimee from MiAlgae will talk about her career journey and how MiAlgae is providing sustainable solutions to omega-3 production and waste management for distilleries. |
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| Financial Services | 11:45 | Sector Overview | Investment20/20 helps drive a forward thinking, responsible and inclusive investment industry where every firm attracts, develops and retains talented people from all backgrounds. | |
| Financial Services | 13:45 | Career Inspiration Talk |
David is the Head of Sustainability at BlackRock UK, and previously spent 16 years as an equity analyst and fund manager investing in European listed companies. David will discuss his unconventional career path, from growing up working class in a Yorkshire mining village to running billions of pounds for pension funds, to being a key player in the UK responsible investment community, with ideas around how to get ahead, what not to worry about, and what really works in sustainability. |
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| Wednesday 19th June | Energy and Engineering | 09:45 | Sector Overview | Lorna from offshore renewable energy catapult will talk about a range of exciting careers available in renewable energy. |
| Energy and Engineering | 10:45 | Career Inspiration Talk | Angus MacGregor is a Chartered Geotechnical Engineer will share his career journey finding engineering solutions to big challenges like, "How will we store and use all this abundant offshore renewable energy?" | |
| Fashion | 11:45 | Sector Overview | Andrew from ACS Clothing, The EU's largest Circular Fashion Hub, will give an overview of the range of careers available for those wanting to focus on sustainable fashion | |
| Fashion | 13:45 | Career Inspiration Talk | Andrew from ACS Clothing, The EU's largest Circular Fashion Hub, will speak about his career journey and what it's like to work in sustainable fashion | |
| Thursday 20th June | Creative | 09:45 | Sector Overview | From Architect to contractor, funder, community planner and climate leader within the cultural sector, hear about my route to becoming Creative Scotland’s first Climate Emergency and Sustainability lead. |
| Creative | 10:45 | Career Inspiration Talk | Andrew managed the Creative Climate Futures project and will be talking about the unusual route his career journey has taken him | |
| Construction | 11:45 | Sector Overview | Join Steven Paton (Early Careers Recruitment Advisor) and Calum Munro (Group Social Impact Lead) from Robertson construction who will outline entry routes into the trades and construction industry, showcasing a range of sustainable journeys and career paths. | |
| Construction | 13:45 | Career Inspiration Talk | Hear from two speakers at the frontline of new career pathways driving the construction sector to a sustainable and net zero future – Peter McConnachie (Passivhaus Manager) and FfIon Baird (Sustainability Graduate). | |
| Friday 21st June | Maritime | 09:45 | Sector Overview | Allan qualified as a marine engineer 24 years ago and has watched technology become greener, particularly in the last 5 years where there has been rapid development of new fuels and propulsion system, from sails and batteries to ammonia and fuel cells. It’s an exciting time to join the maritime industry either afloat or ashore and Allan will give an overview of the wide range of sustainable jobs available. |
| Maritime | 10:45 | Career Inspiration Talk | David will talk about his career journey to being a member of offshore renewable energy catapult working in maritime decarbonisation |
Registration
A watch link for the live/recorded webinars will be emailed closer to the event.
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