A sixth-form student at a Bermondsey school organised a careers fair to give children a broad view of different jobs they could do later in life.
Amarachi Ibe, 17, set up the careers fair at St Michael’s Catholic College in Bermondsey by inviting people from more than fifty businesses and organisations to discuss their professions.
Speaking during the fair on Tuesday (July 6), she told the News: “I remember having a careers fair in Year 9 that was very small. There was no one there that I was particularly interested in. Growing up with friends that were very ambitious I was slightly frustrated that we didn’t have people to talk to about what they wanted to do.”
Amarachi, a Year 12 student and deputy head girl at St Michael’s, worked on the fair alone at first, before enlisting several other students to help. She first worked out the areas students were generally most interested in – engineering and finance – before branching out to more niche professions. “Then it got to the stage of ‘let’s just have as many companies as we can get’,” she said. “So we just started asking anyone and everyone.”
Aspiring doctor Amarachi said she had spoken to a scientific researcher at the careers fair, which had made her think about her future choices.
The News was also represented at the careers fair, and spoke to several students who were interested in getting involved in journalism. Some of the most popular stands appeared to be the Crown Prosecution Service, a trainee doctor, a trainee lawyer and the army.
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Deptford girl Amarachi added: “Today has been a very successful day and people have come and said that they really like this person, I really like this person. People are speaking to people about careers that they don’t even necessarily want to go into but it’s just about broadening their horizons.”
Gary Smith, the head of sixth form at St Michael’s, said staff were “incredibly proud” of Amarachi and the other students who helped organise the careers fair.