Where do I start?: Recent Episodes
Skills Jersey
Where do I start? Helping you achieve your career goals
Skills Jersey’s Careers Guidance team sits down with leading industry professionals to discuss turning career aspirations into the next steps.
The Podcast includes 6 episodes to help you navigate the start of your career and discover what employers are looking for, now and into the future.
Aim: To summarise, we talk with someone who has been through a career change - the highs, the lows, barriers they have faced/how they have overcome them.
Audience: Adults 18 yrs plus
Guest –
Karen Skelhorn – Estate Management Officer, Ports of Jersey
Aim: To provide practical advice, guidance, and support around taking the plunge and moving forward in your career
Audience: Adults 18 yrs plus
Guest:
Tina Hesse – Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service Manager at Mind Jersey
Aim: Provide an overview of Jersey’s Labour Market, focusing on changes over the last 10 years and what to expect in the decade ahead.
Audience: Adults 18 yrs plus based in Jersey, plus an educational tool for secondary school age 14+
Guests:
James Linder – Advisory Manager, PWC
James Marshall – Senior Statistician – Jersey Statistics.
Aim: Open and candid discussion about barriers people have faced in their career journey and how they have overcome them.
Includes guided activity at end of the podcast to support listeners to find a starting point to overcoming their own barrier(s)
Audience: 16 yrs plus
Guests:
Catherine Le Ruez
Stephen Coleman, Digital Producer, The Studio, Government of Jersey
Aim: Talk more broadly about skills from a personal and employers’ perspective – how skills develop over time and skills we’ll need for the future in the world of work
Target audience: 17 yrs plus and employers as Dawn talks about skills needed for management
Guests:
Chris Mutton – Acting Trackers Manager
Dawn Hodgson – Skills Development Business Partner – Jersey Electricity
Aim: To help the listener develop self-awareness, providing a period of reflection about their core values guiding them in their career.
This episode includes a guided activity at the end to help listeners tune into guiding values.
Target audience: Suitable for 16 plus who feel a bit lost and don’t know where to start.
Guest – John Liot – Mentor; Photographer; Podcaster