Transcript Planning for success Kate Amis Manager, The Geography Ambassador Project Thinking ahead ► What do you want in the future? ► Do you have any plans? ► What is at.

Planning for success
Kate Amis
Manager, The Geography Ambassador Project
Thinking ahead
► What
do you want in
the future?
► Do
you have any
plans?
► What
is at the top of
your ladder?
Making plans
Looking at my future from here
Your Career as a
Ladder
My career choice
My university or training
Course choices 16+
Work experience choices
Course choices 14+
Here and now choices
The first rule
►Research
► What
careers are available?
► What
do the careers in each sector involve?
► How
can I find out more? Contacts, work
experience, visits, internet, library.
The second rule
►Planning
► From
the future
...........backwards !
► Establish
some
long term goals.
► They
do not have
to be set in stone.
The third rule
►Target
setting
?
Creative
Arts and
Design
Geography
?
?
Geography
Mathematics
Geography
?
Geography
Photography
?
English
?
Geography
Sport
Geography
Politics
?
?
Geography
Geography
ICT
?
Geography
Biology
Activity 2
Business
Career Areas
► Settlement
► Society
► Geographical
techniques
► Physical systems
► Travel, leisure and
tourism
► Economic world
► Development and
global issues
Settlement
► Are
you interested in
shaping the
relationship between
people and their
environments?
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Regeneration officer
Landscape architect
Town planner
Environmental consultant
Kate – Surveyor
I studied geography at Cambridge and on leaving I got a job with my current
employer, Allsop Property Consultants. I did a masters degree for two years
and qualified to become a Chartered Surveyor.
Leisure, travel and culture
►
Are you interested in
discovering, exploring and
promoting different
places, cultures or sports?
Sports venue manager
► Event manager
► Travel or tour operator
► Youth and community officer
► Museum educator
►
John – Co Ordinator 2012
London Olympic Games
.
Physical systems
► Do
you enjoy being in
the landscape and
working with the
natural environment?
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Coastal engineer
Flood protection officer
Weather presenter
Environmental consultant
Lucy – Sky News weather forecaster
and presenter
I love the changing patterns of geography;
no day is ever the same and geography keeps me on my toes.
Economic world
► Do
you want to make
key decisions that
shape the commercial
world?
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Lawyer
Retailer
Accountant
Financial analyst
Antony- Retail location analyst
I am currently working
for a large retailer
doing location
planning. This involved
plotting
store locations and
customer details
onto a digital map.
Development and global issues
► Are
you interested in
world events? Do you
want to work towards
improving social
inequality across the
globe?
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Diplomat
Overseas volunteer
Aid worker
Charity co-ordinator
Tania – DEFRA & United Nations
I work on projects for
DEFRA with
the United Nations
Environment
Programme (UNEP) and
Sustainable Development
Programme. I help
organise meetings, write
speeches
and prepare briefings. I
often visit New York and
Nairobi.
Environment and Sustainability
► Do
you care about
the future of the
planet?
Resource manager
► Recycling officer
► Forestry manager
► Cycle route planner
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Matt – Carbon budgets
Our project is developing
ideas for introducing a
personal carbon
allocation, which would
give each
of us an incentive to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.