Guru Lecture with the LIVE Group

Posting by Ranjit Hayer, Business teacher & Career Academy Manager

Second year Career Academy students enjoyed a fascinating guru lecture this week, as they were visited by Theresa Crockett from the LIVE Group.

The LIVE Group is an events management company and Theresa Crockett is an account manager with the firm, based in Westminster. Theresa met the students at the end-of-year event at Arup last July, and on this first visit to the College she was eager to find out how their summer internships had gone. The students used the time to tell her all about their experiences, what they enjoyed and what they learnt about the working full-time.

Theresa then told them all about her work, including how her job works and how the world of events management has changed. She brought some of the latest technology that is used by the LIVE Group with her to show how conferences work. The students had a chance to take part in an interactive discussion in which new technology called a palmlet was used to vote on questions, opinions and to even rate speakers during the time they were talking at conferences.

The students were impressed and amazed at how conferences now worked and how important it is for businesses to closely follow new technology, as it is certainly changing at a fast pace.

Real world experiences like this are a valuable part of the Career Academy venture. The students are in their second year of a BTEC Extended Diploma in Business course and are getting unique opportunities with the Career Academy. This includes not only guru lectures like this, but also visits to businesses, mentoring from real business people and six-week paid internships, which the students have just completed over the summer.

More news on the internships coming soon!