What It Is
A live event where speakers who have built serious careers in their field share their story, experience and knowledge with young people who've never had access to any of it.
You take the stage. You talk about how you got in, what the work actually looks like, what it took to get where you are. The things that don't appear in any job description but that everyone in your industry already knows. No script, no corporate filter - just a direct conversation with people who need to hear exactly what you've got to say.
Every session is filmed and turned into bitesize and long-form shareable content, distributed across platforms and reaching young people far beyond the room.
The content we create isn't just ours to use. We produce properly edited assets you can publish on your own platforms - something that shows the world you showed up, gave your time, and were part of something that matters.
There's no hard sell in the room. No one is signing anyone up for a course, collecting data, or pushing an agenda. You speak. They listen. That's the whole transaction - and it's precisely why it works.
Authentic. Direct. No agenda.
Why This Is Different
Most support for young people is functional - CV writing, interview prep, application guidance. Useful, but it doesn't address the underlying problem. Industry Sessions works at a different level.
Why You
The jobs fair is the go-to response when nobody knows what else to do. A room full of pull-up banners, branded junk, and small talk. Scan a QR code. The vacancies are on the website - apply online.
It looks like support. It isn't.
Young people are largely left to figure it out alone - hoping the next application gets through, that someone notices, that something changes. Nobody is giving them the time to show them how your industry works, what it genuinely takes to get in, or why they'd be any good at it.
Just by turning up you're already saying more than any jobs fair ever could. It says your industry, your company, is open to them. It says they're worth someone's time. It says someone cared enough to show up.
And you're living proof that these careers exist - and that someone actually made it.
That matters more than you might think. Because for a lot of the young people in that room, your entire sector has felt like somewhere that wasn't built with them in mind. Not hostile - just unfamiliar. A world they've never had a map for.
The unwritten rules. The language and conventions of your sector. The way a CV should actually read to land on the right desk. The skills that genuinely open doors. The entry points that aren't obvious unless you already know where to look.
You've been navigating all of this for years. You can give young people a map - and once they can picture where they're going, they'll work for it. The tailored application, the research, the preparation - it stops feeling like effort for its own sake and starts feeling like building towards something real.
Industry Sessions isn't about converting the already-converted. It's about reaching the young people who haven't yet connected the dots between what they're capable of and what a specific sector can offer them.
Breaking the Cycle
Provision for young people out of work tends to measure throughput, not transformation. Three hundred through the door at a jobs fair is considered a success. A stack of CVs submitted is a box ticked. Nobody asks what happened next - whether anyone got a call back, whether anyone found work they actually wanted, whether the afternoon made any difference at all.
Young people without a clear direction don't need another link to another website. They need to engage with someone who's been there and done it - someone who knows the pathways, who can show them the reality of the sector, and help them understand that there are options actually within their reach.
Each Industry Sessions event is built around a single sector - a focused afternoon where multiple speakers from the same industry share their stories, their routes, and their knowledge. Young people leave with a clearer picture of what a career in that field actually looks like, what it takes to get there, and why it might be worth aiming for.
One event. One sector. Multiple voices. And the potential to set a room full of people on paths they couldn't see before they walked in.
Who We're Looking For
You've worked hard, made mistakes, and figured it out. You know what it actually takes to succeed in your sector - not the polished version, but the real one. That's a voice young people almost never get access to, and it's exactly the kind of story that lands.
You turn up and do the work. You're not a spokesperson, a hiring manager, or someone focused on social value - you're someone who operates day-in, day-out within a sector, and you know it properly. That credibility is what makes this work.
The entry points that genuinely work. The skills that open doors. The language and conventions that show you understand how the sector operates. The accumulated knowledge that takes years to build and never appears in a job description. You have it. These young people need it.
You're comfortable talking directly, answering real questions, and sharing your experience without dressing it up. No panel format. No corporate filter. Just a genuine conversation with young people who are there because they want to be.
Why Tower Hamlets
We're launching Industry Sessions in Tower Hamlets - one of the most deprived boroughs in England, and one of the most overlooked in terms of employment support that actually works. 56% of children here live in poverty, the highest rate of any borough in the UK. Youth unemployment is among the highest in London.
And yet from almost every street, you can see the City of London to the west and Canary Wharf to the east - two of the most employment-dense, opportunity-rich areas in the world. Finance, tech, law, media, creative industries, hospitality, logistics - virtually every sector and role is accessible within 40 minutes. The opportunity is genuinely on the doorstep.
Industry Sessions exists to make that visible - and to bridge the gap between young people who have the potential and a professional world that has never felt within reach.
Source: Tower Hamlets Council, July 2024It matters more than you think, because for many young people who are out of work, education or training, workplaces like yours are a completely unfamiliar place.
Some young people will never have stepped foot in a professional environment. Many won't know anyone who has. They don't know the language, the conventions, the codes. They don't know what a career in finance, or tech, or the creative industries actually looks like from the inside - or what a realistic first step might be.
The result is that they gravitate towards what feels familiar - temporary contracts, zero-hours work, roles with no real progression. Not because it's what they want, but because it's what they know how to aim for.
You can change that. Not through policy, not through process - but simply by showing up and telling the truth about how you got where you are.
What's In It For You
We film everything - the talk, a short interview before you go on, behind-the-scenes material. We turn that into properly produced clips and assets you can publish and share on your own platforms.
The session is livestreamed and recorded. Key moments are clipped and distributed across platforms. Your story starts in one room but has the potential to reach young people across the country.
If ESG, CSR or social value matters to you or your organisation, this is tangible and attributable. Young people in one of the UK's most underserved communities, directly reached by your expertise and your story.
Not a conference audience on their phones. Young people who chose to be there, curious about your sector, and ready to hear what you've got to say.
The Format
We keep it tight. Your time is valuable - we won't waste it.
Before you go on, we grab ten minutes on camera - direct questions about your sector, your route, what you'd tell someone starting from zero.
You take the stage. Your story, your sector, your call on how to tell it. We introduce you with a short career reel. The room is ready. The livestream is running.
Young people from Tower Hamlets and the surrounding area - in the room and watching online. An audience that's there because they chose to be.
Editing, captioning, clipping, publishing. We turn the day into content that keeps working long after you've left.