Careers Summer Bootcamp: Day One
When:
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Venue:
Online
Registrations have now closed for this event.
Bootcamp Day One: Ability is designed for students and recent graduates with a disability, neurodiverse, long term health or mental health condition but may also be of interest to those who would like to find out more about disability and careers. You do not need to be part of the Ability Programme to attend.
We have three great sessions lined up, focussing on helping to support you in your career journey and building up your confidence when speaking with employers.
Session Details:
12pm: Adjustments and Openness Statements – be in control of the conversation. Being open about your disability with an employer can be a daunting prospect. This workshop takes a look at why you might want to be open with an employer, how you can do that by creating an openness statement and what an employer can actually ask you about a disability.
One reason for being open about a disability is to ensure that you have adjustments in place during a recruitment process. The workshop will also take a look at what we mean by adjustments and highlight some examples. You will also have the opportunity to think about what adjustments you might need.
3pm: Identifying Strengths - using a disability to stand out from the crowd. It is all too easy for disabled individuals to focus on what they can't do, can no longer do, or what they find difficult to do; this workshop challenges you to instead think about the unique skills and strengths that you have and particularly those that you have developed as a result of having to manage your disability.
By the end of the workshop you will have identified your skills and specifically those you have acquired as a result of managing your disability and feel confident in articulating them to an employer.
6pm: Employer session
We are excited to be joined by Hardeep Rai of Ki, Adam Tobias of The Inventum Group and Richard Ceeney from global law firm Reed Smith for a panel session. The session will be chaired by Lucy Crittenden.
Hardeep Bio:
Hardeep is the Founder and Managing Director of Kaleidoscope Investments, a company that exclusively invests in disabled people with great business ideas. He spent 23 years in the Investment Management industry including 13 years in the well-known Hedge Fund, Gartmore Investment Management. He spent the last 10 years as an entrepreneur, investor and business growth specialist.
He worked as Client Director at Hamilton Bradshaw Venture Partners (HBVP) a growth advisory business founded by James Caan (Ex-Dragons Den). HBVP was focussed on helping to aggressively grow SME's businesses with a view to preparing them for an Exit.
He is educated to Master’s level in International Business law and graduated from the University of London.
Kaleidoscope investments (Ki):
Ki specialises in helping disabled people with great business ideas, to set up and start their own businesses. They work with anyone that has a disability according to the Equalities Act 2010 and are completely sector agnostic. They focus on the entrepreneur and their capabilities.
In addition to bringing investment to the table, they also introduce business savvy mentors who have all been or continue to be, successful entrepreneurs. Additionally they have our own methodology of growing companies that they apply to the businesses that they work with, which is effectively their ‘secret sauce’.
They have recently set up Kaleidoscope Recruitment which is their recruitment business specifically helping people with disabilities into job roles and then helping them to stay there as long as they can.
Adam Bio:
Adam Tobias is the co-founder of Inventum Group, leaders in inclusive talent and leadership solutions. Inventum Group brands include Wells Tobias Recruitment Solutions (inclusive recruitment), Inventum Search (inclusive executive search), Inventum Consulting (inclusion and diversity consulting) and Human Design by Inventum (inclusive UX consultancy). Adam advises business leaders and executive teams on strategic inclusion and talent management solutions. He speaks regularly on a variety of diversity and inclusion topics and has a passion for Neurodiversity in the workplace.
Richard Bio:
Richard Ceeney is a partner at Reed Smith LLP, specialising in transactional construction law. He has been a member of the firm’s graduate recruitment interview panel for more than 15 years, is an active member of LEADRS (the firm’s disability Business Inclusion Group) and is a founding member of Reed Smith’s mental health task force. Richard has Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD.
Lucy bio:
Lucy Crittenden is an Employability Consultant with Birkbeck Futures. She works on the Ability Programme, a bespoke Careers & Employability Programme for students with a disability. Previously she managed graduate recruitment, which included supporting employees with a disability, at Reed Smith LLP, a global law firm. Lucy has experienced mental health conditions including anorexia, OCD and anxiety.
All sessions will be interactive and are designed to provide you with practical takeaways that you can then put in to action.
By signing up to Day One, you are signing up to all three sessions and you will be sent one link to access all sessions on Collaborate at least 24 hours before the start. Please make sure that you have signed up with the correct email address to ensure you receive the link.
If you require any adjustments for the sessions, please let Lucy Crittenden know at employability@bbk.ac.uk by Friday 24th July at the latest so that we have time to implement them.
Contact name:
Lucy Crittenden