On Saturday 9th October 2021, we hosted our annual careers fair - RISE Your Net Worth Careers Event at the Community Hub in Wood Green. This is the third year we have organised this annual career event. Over 170 people were able to take part on the day, most of whom were young people and recent graduates looking to build up their professional development.
This networking and careers event was designed for young people and professionals well established in their careers to meet, network and to share career information and advice to access opportunities. The careers event formed part of our youth intervention and engagement efforts across London to show young people there are opportunities to develop themselves and to learn new skills and to grow their career prospects. We organised the event to also show a positive side to the Somali community in London, and away from the usual negative narratives of knife crime, anti-social behaviour, and involvement in serious youth violence. It was inspiring to see so many young people, industry experts and professionals to come to the event to progress and further develop themselves as well as giving back to their community to uplift one another.
The event this year was delivered in three different parts:
Industry stalls
There were 16 different industry stalls including business, IT, Healthcare, Consulting, Entrepreneurship, and the Civil service, among others. We had 45 professional stall volunteers assisting event attendees with information, advice, and career guidance. A huge thanks goes to our professional stall volunteers who ran industry stalls to provide useful information and insights to stall visitors. While the fair was focused to careers, it was also an opportunity for people to network and for the community to come together to support one another, to share ideas and information about developing yourself, your career and future.
We also had organisation stall holders from different industries including the following organisations:
Dahabshiil Money Transfer
Somali Lawyers Association
Access UK (African Caribbean Careers & Employment Support Services UK
Aim Hire Sales Training
Kamino Homecare
Fooscare Social Care
Panel Discussion
As well as networking, time was given to a panel discussion on the importance of networking and why it’s crucial to improve your networking skills to further increase your chances of landing key career opportunities.
Networking
Towards the end of the event there was an opportunity to network and mingle with event attendees over some refreshments. This part of the event was dedicated to give people the opportunities to speak to event stall holders, panel members, sponsor and organiser of the event.
Watch below for the short documentary of the careers fairs.