Last week Jo Brassington spent the day with Year 7 and 8 children from Avanti Park School, Frome, delivering a day of careers talks in her role as School Enterprise Advisor on behalf of Pipster Solutions. She is supporting Assistant Principal Brendan Bayew to develop their Careers Programme with the assistance of The Somerset Careers Hub aimed at educating Key Stage 3 children in career options, choices and routes.

Jo challenged the classes to figure out what she did, linking her work back to the need for public contracts to be procured fairly, and for suppliers to have equal chances to bid for and supply services.

There was a nice mix of interest, curiosity and questions about the profession, and slight surprise that the everyday things the local Council look after are actually a bit more complicated to provide. The kids also got a simple and effective insight into the modern-day challenges that suppliers face when trying to secure work, survive and grow.

Jo was proud to promote bidding as an intentional career choice and is looking forward to building the Avanti Park Careers Programme.