Financial Mail on Sunday’s third careers conference for girls, Breaking the Mould 2010, was an amazing success. Around 350 women students and their teachers attended a star-studded event on Monday at the glittering InterContinental Hotel, One Park Lane.
As we are a Sunday newspaper, we are holding off on giving you the full report before it has appeared in Financial Mail this Sunday March 7th. So pick up a Mail on Sunday this weekend! If you visit www.fmwf.com in the coming weeks you will also find all our video footage from the day (filmed by Cathy Hassan), one-to-one interviews with some of our inspirational speakers and pictures from the day.
We organised some top flight panels of speakers for the conference which looked at apprenticeships and careers to do with the senses such as optometry and food. We also took a look at some of the ‘hidden’ jobs to be found within big organisations ranging from things like PR and marketing, to community programmes and sponsorship.
There was a panel of women who have completely changed career direction showing that wrong choices can be righted and also suggesting the flexibility which may well be needed with ever longer working lives. We had speakers on technology and telecoms and looked at the possibilities associated with entrepreneurship.
The climax of the day was the live final of the MoneySense Apprentice Challenge, judged by stars of BBC’s Apprentice, Margaret Mountford, Saira Khan and Tim Campbell.
Pick up a Mail on Sunday or visit www.fmwf.com on Sunday to read about it, and find out who won the MoneySense Apprentice Challenge and what their game to teach personal finance involved…
Pictures will be added to the FMWF Facebook group – FMWF: Women in Business (click here).
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:29 pmLisa Bondesio says:
I applaud the Mail for recognising that enabling women to succeed in business starts with early intervention. It’s also important for young women to realise the power of their dreams and not be constrained by the expectations of others.