A post to say Thank You

As we begin the final evaluation of the Students4webES project, we would like to take a moment to thank the employers and institutions who supported the project by participating in a webinar. 

A big THANK YOU to...

• Abingdon and Witney College – Kelly Boast (Head of Staff Services)
• Active Nation, White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre – Dave Rolls (Manager)
• Morgan Cole Solicitors, Oxford – Andrew Leadbitter (Consultant Solicitor)
• National Union of Students – Jesse Scharf (Student Switch Off Project Officer)
• Puma Hotels – Lygon Arms Spa – Alice Walker (Head Therapist)
• Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell – Rosie Sherry (Head of People Development)
• Waitrose Abingdon – Linda Phillips (Section Manager Personnel)
• Wenn Townsend Chartered Accountants, Oxford – Lee Baker (Audit Manager, Training and Recruitment)

Without the support of the above employers and institutions we wouldn't have a project to evaluate!

Waitrose webinar

Last week Linda Phillips, HR manager at Waitrose Abingdon, participated in a webinar with students from Abingdon and Witney College.

Linda Phillips, HR manager, Waitrose Abingdon

Linda and her colleague Gen Allen visited the Abingdon campus to take part in the webinar and to meet staff and students involved in the project.

Gen Allen

Linda was supported by Ben during the webinar, one of three students involved in running the webinar.

To see more about the 'behind the scenes' running of this webinar check out our other blog post by clicking here and do watch the recording of the webinar below!

Two more webinars completed!

Today we completed another two webinars, the first with Waitrose and the second with the NUS (National Union of Students). This was the first time we had run sessions back to back, which worked very well giving the students involved a chance to try out the different roles involved in running a webinar.

During the Waitrose webinar Abi took the role of Moderator, uploading the presentation, starting and stopping the recording, as well as assigning participant privileges. She listened in via an iPad and ran the moderator settings via the computer because of last minute audio issues (the iPad app doesn't include moderator settings).

 

Aaron took the role of Speaker, welcoming the first guest presenter - Linda Phillips, HR manager at Waitrose Abingdon. He explained how the webinar would run, took questions from the audience and thanked Linda for her participation.

Ben took the role of Speaker during second session with guest presenter Jesse Scharf, from the NUS, whilst Aaron and Abi moderated.

All three students gave up the first day of their half term holiday to come in and run the webinars and did so with true professionalism!

Recordings of both webinars will be made available soon and will be posted here on the blog when they are ready.


Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Project Manager

Two more webinars booked in!

We are very pleased to announce that we have two more employer webinars booked in for February 2013. Both webinars will take the same format as our first one and will be based around the theme of employability skills.
The first will be with Waitrose Abingdon, on the 11th February. In the second one, Dave Rolls, manager of The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, will be talking to students on February 18th.

As we book more employers in we will post details here on the blog, so watch this space!

Update: Please click on the following links to watch these webinars

Waitrose webinar

Active Nation webinar (The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre)