Student Workbook

Name…………………………………………………………………………………..

School/College………………………………………………………………………

Date ………………………………………………………………………………….

Aims of the Aspire

To broaden your understanding of the range of roles and jobs available by exploring the career pathway of the business ambassador/s.

For you to consider your own motivations for going to work and explain your reasons.

To explore different job roles and consider their different rewards and if they interest you.

Icebreaker: People Bingo!Task: You are a business professional and you have arrived at your place of work. Move around the room and find colleagues to shake hands with, smile and ask them how they are.

Ask them 2 questions to see if you can insert their name in the bingo table below. After 2 questions move onto the next person.

B I N G OName of Someone who plays a musical instrument

Name of someone who speaks multiple languages

Name of someone you think is a good listener

Name of someone who helps others

Name of someone who is a talented sportsperson

Name of someone who has an interesting hobby

Name of someone who has acted as a hero

Name of someone who helps their parents or sibling

Name of someone who has a dream/ambition

Name of someone who enjoys maths

Name of someone who is very organised

Name of someone who is clever

Name of someone who is confident

Name of someone who you admire

Name of someone who is a good friend

Name of someone who is resilient

Name of someone who is an excellent communicator

Name of someone who can do First Aid

Name of someone who is good with computing and ICT

Name of someone who is creative

Name of someone who is calm under pressure

Name of someone who works hard

Find signature of someone who will be famous one day

Name of someone who will end up running their own company

Name of someone who will make a difference

What did others say about you? Put a tick in any boxes above that apply to you

The Business Ambassador

Task: listen to the business ambassador to learn more about their job role and company. Make notes in the relevant sections below:

Please feel free to ask the Business Ambassador any questions you have about their experiences after school, the jobs they have had and the places they have worked.

Name of Business Ambassador:

Where they work (can also draw brand here):

Job title:

Skills and qualities needed to do their job:

What they did following school:

Additional notes:

Task: Working in pairs create the longest list you can of job roles involved in making the latest smart phone. You may find the ‘Smartphone Helpsheet’ at the back of the booklet helpful.

How many Jobs Challenge

What motivates you? Why go to work?Below are 20 boxes each giving a different reason why people go to work. Use these boxes to help you complete your diamond on the next page. Write what you feel is most important to you at the top of the diamond and least important at the bottom of the diamond. You do not have to use every option below-some boxes will not be a motivation factor for you. You can also add your own motivation factors.

The challenge is to think of the different departments involved from design to manufacturing. 700 people worked on the camera alone for the iphone 7.1000 people worked on the iphone 8 camera.

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What motivates you? Why go to work?Using the boxes on the previous page, complete the diamond diagram below, with 9 factors that are important to you and would motivate you to go to work. You may wish to add some of your own. Put the most important at the top and least important to you at the bottom.

Go Compare…With a partner discuss the benefits and challenges of each of the job roles below. Do any of the job roles have what you are looking for? Look back at your diamond of motivational factors-is there a match with any of the job roles below?

Think about:

Career progression Pay Qualifications needed Location of work (inside, outside, from home) Working hours

Gas engineer Surgeon

Construction Worker Customer Service Advisor

This certificate acknowledges that:

…………………………………………

has successfully completed the Aspire Careers Lab module

Certificate of completion

Smartphone HelpsheetIt may be difficult to imagine life without your mobile phone. Every component in your mobile phone is manufactured. So how many people and how many different job roles were needed to manufacture it and get it to you?

Step 1: Components/materials

Before reaching the design phase, phone manufacturers need to decide which materials are needed to make the phone. For example, batteries contain rare earth metals that needs to be mined mostly in China. So mining and shipping are important to bring the elements used in smaller batteries to the manufacturer.

Example job roles: materials scientist, chemist, miner, materials engineer, chemical engineer, project manager, logistics director

Step 2: DesignOnce the components, or selling features, of that phone are decided, a team of designers and engineers will mock up what that phone should look like.

Example job roles: Senior Vice President of Design, design & development engineer, software designer, visual designer, graphics designer, innovations specialist, Head of Product Design, systems architect, Director of Research & Design (R&D)

Step 3: SoftwareSmartphones use a mobile operating system and are able to process a variety of software components, known as "apps". All mobile phone programmes require coding and engineering. There are many different programme languages used. Can you code in some of these languages?

Example jobs: Mobile phone software technician, Software Engineer, mobile testers, software systems architect, mobile app developer, GPS coder, code writer, electrician, app developer, patent Lawyer.

Step 4: ManufacturingAfter deciding what's going to be under the hood of that phone and the decisions on how it's going to be made are chosen, it's time to actually build that phone! The parts are sourced from their respective manufacturers then shipped to a central manufacturing facility where those phones are put together.

These manufacturing facilities, often constructed overseas to reduce costs, are tasked with putting those phones together quickly and efficiently.

Example jobs: manufacturing operator, phone assembler, electrical engineer, finance director, accountant, Logistics Coordinator, Director of Transport & Logistics, Solderer, welder, project manager, quality control inspector, courier.

Step 5: Marketing, Advertising, Logistics &SalesFrom there, cellphones still need to be marketed, stocked on shelves, and then sold to consumers like you!

Example jobs: customer sales advisor, mobile phone repair technician, Digital Marketing Director, Brand Strategist, illustrator, film producer, cameraperson, sales executive, editor-music and film.

That's a complex piece of electronics that sits in your pocket and it's difficult not to appreciate what goes into making a mobile phone. There are thousands of steps from conception to consumer and this summary barely scratches the surface.

In every company there is accountancy/bookkeeping, HR, recruitment, training etc. all the central services. All these jobs are involved in bringing you a mobile phone.