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At Callywith College we are dedicated to developing your employees of the future. We need your help to raise their career aspirations, develop their employability skills and learn more about the exciting industries in Cornwall.

Callywith College is committed to providing high quality careers, education, information, advice and guidance to help inspire students and to enable them to make rational informed career decisions. Callywith College aims to meet all eight Benchmarks identified by the Gatsby Foundation.

• Talk about your job role and/or sector as a representative of one of the businesses or organisations involved in a ‘Destinations Day’. The next one is for our 900 Year 1 students on Tuesday February 11th 2025.
• Take part in one of our ‘Sector Networking Lunches’, where students develop their networking skills and interact with a range of specialists working in a broad sector. The sectors match our curriculum areas. There are going to be eleven sector networking lunches this academic year:

20/11 - English, Languages and Performing Arts
4/12 - Education & Care
5/3 - Protective Services
6/3 - Sport
12/3 - Social Sciences
13/3 - Humanities
19/3 - Art & Design
26/3 - Business and Travel & Tourism
2/4 - Science & Engineering
30/4 - Media
7/5 - IT, Maths & Computing

• Offer work experience placements to our students to help them test out a job role idea.
• Help bring a subject to life by linking it to your industry/sector through a visit and/or a talk at Callywith.
• Take part in mock interviews of Year 1 and Year 2 students.
• Run hands-on workshops with activities linked to your area of expertise.
• Help champion specific issues and challenge barriers in the workplace around gender stereotyping, disability.
• Support employment routes for young people with special educational needs and disabilities and offer a work experience that is co-supported by the college.

By getting involved, in addition to supporting the development of the future workforce in Cornwall, you will broaden the minds of young people, develop the skills of your employees and forge strong community links.

If you would like to discuss getting involved in any of the above activities at Callywith, please contact David Sellars, the college’s Destinations Lead, by emailing davidsellars@callywith.ac.uk or calling 01208 224019.