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Business in the Community Collaboration
Action 4.A.1
Collaboration with Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI)
48 participants
PPLI works to encourage the involvement of employers with post-primary schools as part of their workexperience/career choices in Transition Year, LCVP and LCA. On December 9th, PPLI collaborated with BITCI on
the ‘Seeing is believing: For Language teachers & Guidance Counsellors with IBM' webinar. The webinar
demonstrated the integral relationship between career, life, and language skills giving an overview of the jobs
and opportunities available in IBM utilizing language skills. The roles, skills required, and career opportunities
with language skills were profiled.
This work aimed to increase teachers’ knowledge of the use of languages in job roles within a company, to
demonstrate how language skills are being used in a practical workplace setting and to provide an
opportunity to engage industry and teachers.
It also raised awareness of the type of employees that companies are currently hiring, recruitment paths and
skills gaps.
Impact
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Knowledge of job roles, and in particular the value of languages for these roles, within a leading business
was increased.
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Participants were provided with an opportunity to engage with industry experts.
Next steps
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Continue positive collaboration between BITCI
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PPLI for the Student Webinar in spring 2022
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