Careers Fair
Our 2025 Careers Insights Event will take place on Saturday 29 March from 9.00am to 1.00pm and will provide pupils with a wealth of information, guidance and advice on careers and universities.
Pupils from Year 10 through to Upper Sixth will be able to participate in four career/university speaker sessions of their choice and attend a Keynote Speech, by OP, Tunde Olanrewaju, currently a Senior Partner at McKinsey and Co in London .
Registrations will open on Friday 14 February and to help with decision-making over which speaker sessions to attend there will shortly be Advice For Choosing Talks, along with Speakers Biographies and Talk Topics. We would like pupils and students to be accompanied by a parent or parents to the event, so conversations can continue afterwards.
The deadline for registering will be Monday 3 March 2025. You will receive a personalised timetable upon arrival on the day.
Keynote Speaker - Tunde Olanrewaju, OP (Class of 1998)
After leaving Princethorpe in 1998, Princethorpe Shield winner, Tunde studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Management at Imperial College. He is currently a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Co in London, a global management consultancy that advises Private, Public and Social sector institutions on a range of issues. Tunde is the managing partner for McKinsey’s UK, Ireland and Israel offices and also a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, the firm’s global board of directors. Prior to this role he was the firm’s Global Chief Technology and Platform Officer, responsible for ensuring the cyber and operational resilience of McKinsey’s client and colleague-facing technology assets across the world.
In his client work, he works with a range of financial services, private equity, real estate, consumer facing and public sector institutions. He has also published on a range of research topics, including on the evolving UK corporate landscape and the impact of the UK arts sector (in collaboration with 70+ leading UK arts institutions).
Outside McKinsey, Tunde is a trustee of Oxfam, a not-for-profit organisation that fights against poverty, a member of Imperial College London’s Council, and a board member of Innovate UK, the United Kingdom’s commercial innovation agency. He has also been recently appointed to the Government’s Industrial Strategy Advisory Council of Business Leaders to offer independent advice as it develops its industrial growth ambitions.
Time | Session |
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9.00am - 9.30am |
Registration in the Sports Hall for parents and pupils |
9.40am - 10.10am | Session 1 |
Walk | |
10.20am - 10.50am |
Session 2 - including Keynote |
Walk (Refreshments) | |
11.05am - 11.35am | Session 3 |
Walk | |
11.45am - 12.15pm | Session 4 - including Keynote |
Walk (Refreshments) | |
12.30pm - 1.00pm | Session 5 |
1.00pm | Event closes |
A wide range of speakers and organisations will be on hand to offer advice and guidance on careers, universities and apprenticeships. Career sectors covered include Law, Medicine, Teaching, Banking, Business, The Arts, Psychology, Product Design and Engineering. We have representatives from organisations as diverse as the Police and JLR to the Armed Forces and the National Grid.
Comments, Head of Careers, Jacqui Quinney, "The event will be a unique and valuable experience and will enable our pupils and students to gain a real insight into the work of work and further study, thus helping them prepare for important decisions that they will need to make over the next few years at Princethorpe and beyond".