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ENGAGING WITH SCHOOLS How aware are students of professional bodies?

 
13-Dec-2011

Recently the online guide to UK universities, PUSH, asked its viewers if they knew what a professional body was. While 40% recognised it as a way to get into a career, 22% said they didn’t know, 21% said they are only for people already in a job and 17% didn’t know.

It seems there is still more work for the professional bodies to do in getting recognised for their hard work!

TotalProfessions.com was set up to link students, careers advisors and those considering a career change to the professions – telling them about what each sector is like via links to professional bodies’ websites. 

We are getting more and more careers advisers on board via our new bulletin (click here to see the first issue), which will focus on a different sector each issue.  TotalProfessions.com is an extremely useful tool for careers advisers – showing students how useful the professional bodies can be as they start out on their career paths.

It’s great to hear about projects such as ‘Inspiring the Future’, a free service from The Institute of Careers Guidance which will be linking professionals from all sectors to young people in state schools and colleges. More initiatives like this will increase young peoples’ understanding of what professional bodies do.

At TotalProfessions we have been busy setting up new links too, with both PUSH and Real World Magazine. We welcome our new media partnership with these popular student based sites.
If you’re interested in getting involved, want to know more, or would like to suggest your sector for a future issue of our careers advisers bulletin, email editor@parnglobal.com.

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