Careers service heads and employers beat the snow
A hundred delegates attended AGCAS Heads Conference in Liverpool on Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 January, despite the worst snow the city and much of the country had seen for almost 30 years.
Fellow travellers
The delegates were mostly heads of HE careers services and their deputies, but we also welcomed graduate recruiters from Asda, The Co-operative, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Npower, Santander and, winners of the prize for the delegates who travelled furthest, three heroic representatives of EU Careers who travelled from Brussels by Eurostar especially for the event. There were also a number of partner organisations represented, including Graduate Prospects.
Inevitably there were a number of people who were thwarted by the weather, including some presenters, but the programme was hastily re-jigged and the informal feedback received so far suggests that it was well worth the trip.
Sliding tour
The organisers (North West Heads Group), our sponsors, the hotel and the people of Liverpool did us proud. The guide booked to lead a walking tour surprised us all by turning up as arranged and, despite treacherous conditions underfoot, several indomitable heads ventured out with her - and thankfully made it back unscathed.
An undoubted highlight was the conference dinner. The after-dinner speaker was Professor Brian Barwick, ex-chief executive of the Football Association (FA) (it was Liverpool - football had to be on the agenda somewhere!) who gave an entertaining as well as relevant speech about his experience of senior management in both the media and football. Networking was extensive in time-honoured AGCAS tradition and continued long into the night.
Presentations
Powerpoint slides, reports and handouts will be added to the conference web page as we receive them from presenters, including those who didn't make it. You will need to be an AGCAS Associate member or a registered conference delegate and registered with and signed into the AGCAS website to download them. If you are but still have problems viewing the content, please contact Adam Gleeson.
An event that none of us who were there, not to mention those who had hoped to be, will forget in a hurry!
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