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The day was organised and facilitated by Pippa Goode, of Education Business Links-Birmingham Solihull EBP and was part of the induction programme for 45 higher and 15 advanced students starting the first IT diploma course at Solihull 6th form college, involving three schools and two colleges in the area.

The programme for the induction day started with a key note address from James Wilby from Land Rover who spoke to all on the topic of “You are Potential Future Employees": the presentation raised awareness of the changing needs in business within our developing world.

The next session was a series of three workshops where IT professionals from local companies rotated in pairs around the groups.

IT experts could only answer yes/no/maybe to questions to identify jobs, building the students’ communication skills.

After the job was guessed, students learned more about the job content, looked at skills, qualities and qualifications required, led by the questions within the attached booklet. This built a real job profile with the help of real job professionals.

This was followed by a carousel of three further workshops:~

Finally the plenary session included an innovative crossword with the diploma IT as its theme, also judging the new IT diploma logos.

The day concluded with thanks to the employers and students and the presenting of prizes to the winners.

Feedback was good and the day enjoyed by all.

This model of induction could be replicated to use with all diploma lines individually or as a blanket induction for a combination of diplomas.