Slumpwise
On January 12th 2-4pm, the first project of Open Society will go live.
It’s time to get Slumpwise.
Slumpwise is an online platform dedicated to showcasing the options available to young people looking for work. Whether you’re a student worried about the next step, a recent graduate struggling to find your feet on a career path, or a 20-something in a job you don’t like, new alternatives are constantly emerging. And with these alternatives, comes opportunity.
Join us for our first online event: ‘Creative Solutions To Youth Under Employment.’ We have assembled a panel of 16 experts, carefully selected because of the innovative and enterprising approaches they have adopted to youth enterprise. Some are innovative entrepreneurs, others have adopted a fresh approach to recruitment, and some have even developed new approaches to ‘work’ altogether. They will all be answering questions online from 2-4pm at www.slumpwise.co.uk.
More than just talk, we want Slumpwise to be a platform for productive action and collaboration – for people to take advantage of what new initiatives and ways of approaching work are offering.
Times are changing and we believe that, in light of new thinking and action, youth under employment is a problem that in some ways has been transformed into an opportunity. With the range of opportunities emerging, you don’t have to have a job to be working and developing your skills and experience; you don’t have to do a job you don’t enjoy; you needn’t be scared of starting your own enterprise. Don’t take our word for it, join our expert panel from 12pm on Saturday June 12th and ask them yourself.
If you’d like to submit a question in advance, send it to tom@open-society.co.uk with the name of the expert it’s directed at. Alternatively, leave the name off and we’ll select the most suitable candidate to answer.
Open Society is a BRILLIANT IDEA.
I have had an idea that compliments it neatly. I started a free website, called http://www.jabberwot.com which is aimed at enabling someone to build a life story about their career and aspirations; it has a built in reputation system, so it’s sort of like where Facebook meets Ebay. I’d love graduates and even students who are unemployed to feel they could use it. I’m not in it for money. Two of my children are students, one recently graduating, so I get the gist of what is going on. A person can create a link to their jabberwot profile and pop it in to an Open Society page, for example here, http://www.jabberwot.com/profile/Rupert? and be found. And I hope people will put Open Society links in their Jabberwot profiles.
Bests regards & admiration, Rupert Douglas-Bate