Description:
Career or Speed Networking is akin to speed dating, but focuses on careers. A group of 12 STEM Professionals will be given a seat at a desk, called a ‘station’. At the start of the session, the visitors arrange themselves at the stations and converse with the professionals about their careers, experience and choices. When a signal is given, the visitors will move onto the next station.
Minimum requirements:
Post-graduate qualification in STEM subject OR five years experience within a STEM field (including allied professions, such as science communication.
Those who did not follow a university route into their career are encouraged to sign up.
(STEM = science, technology, engineering or maths)
Minimum time commitment:
10am – 3pm on any day of The Fair.
NB: A compulsory briefing will be held at 9.30am.
Preparation required:
Compulsory: review of all general volunteer briefing, health & safety, and logistics documentation.
Suggested: Preparation of a simple, chemically-inert prop (in compliance with health & safety regulations); prepare five key sentences describing your job, your career path, ambitions or lessons learnt, and working life.
Skills learnt:
- Simplification of complex subjects at an appropriate level
- Adjusting a message to an audience
- Responding in real-time to a non-specialist audience
- Honing your message in progressive conversations
- Communicating a message through dialogue (as opposed to a lecture or presentation)
Other notes:
All the above-mentioned documents will be made available to registered volunteers in early 2012.