“I first met George during a careers carousel.” Waving his car paint spray gun in the air, Neil asked the students watching, “What do you think this is?” After a range of responses, Neil revealed it was one of the specialist tools he uses every day in his role working in the automotive repair industry. […]
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“Every time I cooked, I got this euphoric feeling.” Like so many young people, Oscar knew what he liked, but he couldn’t connect it to a career path or specific job. “I found that quite a crippling feeling.” Growing up in Cambridge, he “didn’t do badly at school”, but struggled with concentration and getting homework
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“I was applying for entry-level science roles but wasn’t hearing back”. Tucked away on the ground floor of Cambridge Biomedical Campus is Stir café, just below the Histopathology lab where, only a few weeks earlier, Sam had completed a two-week work placement as part of our latest programme Activate Your Future: Health & Care edition. Over the quiet hum
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“We are supporting the future workforce we need.” Kate Greenwood, Work Opportunities Manager at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and ambassador for Form the Future has recently been involved in our latest programme Activate Your Future: Health & Care edition. Kate has been instrumental in helping to organise the two-week work placements offered to the participants, however
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