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OU in Wales - Balancing Act: Navigating Careers as Unpaid Carers 

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OU in Wales - Balancing Act: Navigating Careers as Unpaid Carers 

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Hosts: Open University in Wales and Carers Wales

Date: 12th March 2025
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Format: Online (Teams)

Are you a student or recent graduate balancing your studies or early career with unpaid caregiving responsibilities? Join us for an insightful online event designed to support you in navigating the unique challenges and opportunities that come with being an unpaid carer.

Many students may not identify as unpaid carers. If you provide unpaid care and support to a family member, friend or neighbour who is disabled, has an illness or long-term condition, or who needs extra help as they grow older, you are an unpaid carer. This event will help you recognise your role and the support available to you.

This session will be delivered by Jane Healey, Employers for Carers - Wales Manager (Carers Wales).

What to Expect:

Practical Advice: Learn about important resources and strategies, including:

Carer's Leave Act 2023: Understand your rights under this act, which allows employees to take up to one week of unpaid leave every 12 months to care for a dependant with long-term care needs.

Carer Confident Accreditation: Discover how this benchmarking scheme helps employers create supportive and inclusive workplaces for carers, ensuring you can balance your career and caregiving responsibilities effectively.

Transferable Skills: Highlight the valuable skills you gain from caregiving.

Interactive Q&A: Get your questions answered

Who Should Attend:

Students and graduates who are unpaid carers.

Individuals interested in understanding the impact of caregiving on career development.

Anyone seeking practical advice and support for balancing caregiving and career goals.

If you would like any support leading up to, or require any reasonable adjustments to access this session, please contact: gowales@open.ac.uk

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Meet the Professional: Dr Rachel Morris, Editor-in-Chief of Bylines Cymru

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Meet the Professional: Dr Rachel Morris, Editor-in-Chief of Bylines Cymru

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Monday 25 November

4 – 5 pm

Online (Teams)

Email names of interested students to careerconfident@cardiff.ac.uk by Fri 22 Nov

Join this session hear from Dr Rachel Morris, Editor-in-Chief of Bylines Cymru and learn about:

citizen journalism

opportunities for students including coaching, introduction to a growing community, and an introduction to editing or other skills

the types of articles published, and why

how you don’t need a journalism background to be a ‘citizen’ / participatory journalist

how to find your voice by finding your purpose

thinking about audience

Q&A Session

Who should attend?

This session will be particularly relevant for journalism and media students, students interested in publishing, editing and creative writing, students interested in topics that matter in Wales and students who would like to develop or practise writing. Bylines Cymru welcome students for formal work placements or mentorship opportunities, tailored to their needs, particularly those from communities under-represented in journalism.

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Date: Tuesday 19th November 2024

Time: 13:00 -14:30

Location: Centre for Student Life, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BB

Limited spaces: email careerconfident@cardiff.ac.uk with names of interested students by Fri 15 Nov.

Are you ready to boost your interview skills and stand out from the crowd?

Join us for an interactive session tailored for Career Confident students and designed to help you succeed in all kinds of interviews. In this workshop, you will:

Explore different types of interview questions you may encounter across various industries

Learn about 11 key strengths that are crucial for career success

Practice responding to common interview questions and identifying your personal strengths

After the Interview Skills session, you’ll also:

Discover the roles and Talent Insight programmes available at KPMG

Take part in a Q&A with current KPMG employees to get insider tips on excelling in interviews and your career

This session is open to TESS students from all disciplines, and the skills gained will be applicable to interviews with any employer.

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Bangor session - Navigating neurodiversity in the workplace

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Bangor session - Navigating neurodiversity in the workplace

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We have set a date of 21st November at 11am for the above session. Presenters are booked and I'll get back to you with details shortly

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Careers in the social care sector seem to be an interest for many of the students engaging with us at UWTSD.

I'm in contact with the Welsh Ambulance Trust regarding their Community Welfare Responder initiative and considering organising a session highlighting career options with perhaps them/Social Care Wales & our local Wellbeing centre. Has anyone tried something like this before or have any thoughts/suggestions on whether this could work?

Thanks :)

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USW - Believe in Your Future Motivational Talk (World Mental Health Day)

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USW - Believe in Your Future Motivational Talk (World Mental Health Day)

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Date: Thursday 10th October

Time: 12pm - 1pm

Brief Overview: Session with USW Alumni and Motivational Speaker Luke Rees around how to manage mental health when navigating your career path. Luke Rees Website: Luke Rees | Multi Award Winning Motivational Speaker | Wales

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JOIN THE MOVEMENT

Sign up today to be a part of the

Believe in Yourself Community

Discover the...

POWER OF YOU.

It's November 2012, all-day I have been struggling in silence with my anxiety and depression. Despite trying to keep going and hiding how I am really feeling. Deep down, I know I can not keep going like this. I can't even think straight. All that is going through my mind is what I've been told my entire life.

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I always knew I was one decision away from a totally different life. I had little qualifications, nothing going for me so I decided that I had to believe in myself. That got me thinking. What if I could help could others believe in themselves? Over the last five years, I have become a multi-award winning motivational speaker working with some of the biggest businesses and organisations across the UK and Europe. Inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to believe in themselves to unlock their potential. But was just the beginning.

"Luke, you are never going to achieve anything in life. You have no future. Why don't you do what you've always done and just quit."

Luke is an inspirational young person who turned his life around from a disengaged school student to Multi-Award Winning Motivational Speaker. His troubled past makes him the perfect advocate for education. His story of repeated failure in school, a diagnosis of depression and low self-worth, is one that resonates with students today.

Luke has become one of Wales' most dynamic, engaging, and sought after keynote speakers with a client list that features some of the world's most successful organisations. If you're looking for someone remarkable on the topic of motivation and change, you just found him. His messages are deeply relatable, actionable and proven to change lives around the world.

A Virtual Event Like No Other

Other the last few years the way we do events has changed and so has Luke. Having created and delivered workshops to thousands of people online, as well as being one of the most-booked speakers of the last two years during this virtual environment, Luke understands what it takes to create a surprising and entertaining virtual learning experience.

The Resilience Online Program is an on demand E-Learning experience for you and your organisation. During the six session online program you are going to learn the simple tools to help you build your inner strength and weather the tough times with hope and courage. By sharing my insights into how we can all start to develop our bounce-back-ability and start to see significant improvements in our results, personally and professionally.

Welcome to the Believe in yourself podcast, hosted by Multi Award Winning International Motivational Speaker Luke Rees. Luke has inspired people all over the world to believe in themselves to unlock their potential.

In this podcast, Luke is sitting down with leaders to discover their journeys and the lessons they have learnt to make unachievable, achievable.

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Listen, Share and Subscribe below to make sure you do not miss a single episode!

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Luke Rees | Multi Award Winning Motivational Speaker | Wales

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Luke Rees is an Award winning International Motivational Speaker who aims to inspire others to believe in themselves to unlock their potential.

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Send names to Rita (careerconfident@cardiff.ac.uk) by Wednesday 16 October.

Get an Internship with 10,000 Black Internship Programme

Thursday 17 October

16:30 - 17:30

Online (Zoom)

Learn more about our mission, gain a detailed insight of our internship programme, the application process and tips on how to create a stellar application.

The application period for the 10,000 Black Interns programme has now begun and will end on Sunday 20 October. The application form is available here.

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'My Voice My Choice' - Webinars/Opportunities

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'My Voice My Choice' - Webinars/Opportunities

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1. Disability

2. Caring/parental responsibilities

3. Mental health

4. First in familiy

5. WIMD

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OU in Wales - carers and those with parental responsibilities

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OU in Wales - carers and those with parental responsibilities

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This is our second highest criteria for the students we have supported so happy to organise a session.

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1. First gen

2. BAME

3. Low income

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Top 5 Eligibility Criteria for Aberystwyth TESS 23-24

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Top 5 Eligibility Criteria for Aberystwyth TESS 23-24

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1. Neurodivergent

2. LGBTQ+

3. Mental Health

4. Low income

5. Disability

Might be useful to know for the future 😊

Stan

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Leonard Cheshire Session: 'Sharing Your Disability' 

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Leonard Cheshire Session: 'Sharing Your Disability' 

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Wednesday 21st August at 12pm

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UWTSD Top Three Eligibility Criteria 23/24

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UWTSD Top Three Eligibility Criteria 23/24

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1. Neurodiverse

2. BAME

3. First in family