East Cambridgeshire Careers Fair – young people and businesses talk about skills and career paths!
November 28, 2023
And that’s it for another year and what a year it was! 2023 saw 60 exhibitors from across East Cambridgeshire and beyond showcase their pathways for the 1,500 (secondary and primary) students who visited the fabulous Ely Cathedral on the 7th of November for the East Cambridgeshire Careers & Skills Fair. Students from the Catering Department of Ely College (Meridian Trust) produced a wonderful buffet for the 140 delegates. The atmosphere was buzzing all day.
So many people came together to make this event possible, and the organisers are incredibly grateful to all of them.
As always, we really could not run this event without our sponsors. This year our sponsors were G’s Fresh, Thorlabs, CPCA, Ivor Searle, Shearline, SSE Energy Solutions, Bishop Laney Foundation, East Cambs District Council, Littleport Rotary, Tesco Ely, STEMPOINT and CambCol.
Many of our exhibitors are Chamber members and they brought their businesses to the young people which facilitated a huge number of face to face focussed questions. The young people went away knowing so much more about the sectors and businesses in the local area and the confidence to go back and re-engage. The exhibitors went away knowing that East Cambridgeshire has a pool of enthusiastic, lively and ambitious young people who will become excellent employees and managers in the future.
Quote: “ROKU Inc sent out our intrepid team of STEM Ambassadors and helpers from our Cambridge office…Met 100s of school kids and talked about careers in Engineering and Technology…..” Neil Johnson, ROKU Inc
“We are talking all about what Data Engineers do, demonstrating fibre splicing and running a termination challenge” Millrose Telecom
The organisers Rebecca Sussex, Lis Every Lisa Lambo-Hills and Gina Garrett look forward to welcoming you all back, new exhibitors and supporters in 2024.
They would also like to thank the team behind the scenes who are all part of this amazing event, the Finance team and Catering students at Ely College, Dan Todd for his fantastic graphics of the Cathedral and Charlotte Wrath for her help over the two days that we are in the Cathedral.
If you are interested in getting involved next year, please contact: Rebecca Sussex at Rebecca.sussex.rms@gmail.com
Quote: “another wonderful event showcasing the amazing businesses and colleges in our local area” Nick Oakhill, Soham Village College