Global Entrepreneurship Week 2024
To support Global Entrepreneurship Week 2024 we've a range of pre-recorded sessions with entrepreneurs sharing their experiences and the stories of how they starter their business. Additionally we have a video from Scotland's Enterprising Schools providing a sector overview and advice on how to become an entrepreneur. These talks last 20-30 minutes and we hope you will enjoy them.
| Sector | Title | Link | Description |
| Automotive | Automative with Arnold Clark | Click here to watch the video | Arnold Clark discussing apprenticeship opportunities within the automotive sector as part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week |
| Transport with FirstBus | Click here to watch the video | How FirstBus are reducing impact of travel via electric buses and the range of jobs - including drivers and mechanics | |
| Maritime and Shipping | Click here to watch the video | Promoting STEM careers in Maritime and Shipping, primarily engineering onboard boats/ships | |
| Roads and Transportation Engineering and Planning | Click here to watch the video | Roads and Transportation Engineering and Planning | |
| Tourism | Blue Crags | Click here to watch the video | Hospitality Recruiter sharing advice for working in the sector |
| A world of opportunity | Click here to watch the video | Hear how a career in travel and tourism allowed me to travel the world. | |
| Tourism & Hospitality (Sector Overview) | Click here to watch the video | An overview of the Scottish tourism sector | |
| Tourism & Hospitality (Career Inspiration Talk) | Click here to watch the video | Hear the Hebridean Mermaid tell her story | |
| Enterprise | Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Sector Overview | Click here to watch the video | Young Enterprise Scotland sharing an overview of how to become entrepreneurial |
| Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Career Inspiration | Click here to watch the video | Lisa talking about setting up her first business selling prom dresses | |
| Scotland's Enterprising Schools | Click here to watch the video | Scotland's Enterprising Schools giving an overview of entrepreneurship | |
| CEO & Founder | Click here to watch the video | Hear the story of EnableNet's founding as a social enterprise internet service provider, who use profits to provide free internet to those who need it | |
| Founder | Click here to watch the video | Founder of Savora Drinks sharing their story | |
| Director | Click here to watch the video | Listen to the Director of WynneWynne Solutions discussing how they created their Accounting Firm | |
| Third Sector | Primary Education, Childcare and the Third Sector | Click here to watch the video | Inspiration session for Charlotte telling her career journey to end up working for YoungScot |
| Founders4Schools | Click here to watch the video | Alison Executive Director at Founders4Schools shares her career journey | |
| Food, Drink & Distilling | Food & Drink Sector Overview | Click here to watch the video | Sector overview of food and drink sector from Scottish Careers Week |
| Food & Drink Career Inspiration | Click here to watch the video | Bakkafrost Fisheries | |
| Business Management (Orkney Distillery) | Click here to watch the video | Apprentice managing orkey distillery | |
| Whisky Engineering | Click here to watch the video | Experience of graduate chemical engineering entering into the world of whiskey. Opportunities within Chivas Brother to be involved with engaging and innovative projects throughout Speyside with sustainability at the forefront of all our actions | |
| Gregor Macleod | Click here to watch the video | TV Cook and Baker sharing their journey | |
| Founder | Click here to watch the video | Founder of Savora Drinks sharing their story | |
| Engineering & Green Energy | MVV Energie AG | Click here to watch the video | Energy from waste, advice on both technical and non-technical opportunities |
| A Young Pioneer | Click here to watch the video | Founder of DIYWomen discussing engineering a better future through innovative technologies to bring about positive and sustainable change. | |
| My Path in Renewable Energy | Click here to watch the video | Engineers create solutions to the biggest challenges in our world & engineering will find a path to tackling climate change, on our way to a Net-Zero future. | |
| Energy and Engineering (Career Inspiration Talk) | Click here to watch the video | Inspiration talk from Scottish Power Renewables (Admin/Logistics) | |
| Graduate Engineer (SSE Renewables) | Click here to watch the video | Graduate Engineer from SSE Renewables discussing their journey | |
| Hitachi ABB | Click here to watch the video | Journey of a senior electrical engineer working with electricity transmission |
