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Network Rail Career Kickstart

This workshop offers your students meaningful work experience as well as the chance to improve their career readiness skills, learn workplace behaviours and practice mock interviews, application exercises and assessment centre tasks (depending on the year group).

KS4
KS5
S3
S4
S5
S6
Year 10
Year 11
Year 12
Year 13
England
Scotland
40 students per session
3-hour session
Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Derby, Swindon, Peterborough, Exeter
Free
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What's involved?

Year 10/11 Workshop – "Exploring Your Future"

This workshop gives students the chance to explore their skills, interests, and values while learning about workplace behaviours and essential employability skills. Designed to help students start making informed choices about their next steps, the session also introduces them to the many exciting pathways into rail and the wider world of work.

Year 12/13 Workshop – "Future Ready"

This session is designed to give sixth form students practical preparation for the world of work. Through mock interviews, application exercises, and assessment centre tasks, students will build confidence and strengthen the skills employers are looking for. They’ll also hear about real opportunities and career routes into rail, supporting them to make confident, informed decisions about their futures.

This workshop is designed to effectively bridge the gap between the curriculum and the world of work, enabling your students to take their next steps with confidence and to build their networking skills.

The workshop is roughly three hours long, delivered by a professional Talent Foundry facilitator and supported by Network Rail volunteers.

Who's this suitable for?

This programme is aimed at students in Years 10 and 11 (S3, S4) or Years 12 and 13 (S5, S6).

Please note that at least 50% of the students attending the workshop need to identify as female.

Where is this delivered?

Workshops are delivered in school

Gatsby benchmarks

Gatsby benchmark 2Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby benchmark 6Experiences of workplaces

Make an enquiry

Step 1 - Phone our Schools Engagement Team

Phone our Schools Engagement Team on 0207 148 0934 to check eligibility*.

*Places are allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis to schools in our target cohort (higher than average numbers of pupils eligible for pupil premium funding).

Step 2 - Submit an online enquiry

Make an online enquiry