Future Entrepreneurs

Careers Academy

Course introduction

Sarah Ryder
Future Entrepreneurs

Aspiring entrepreneur? Develop your business skills and boost your employability by launching your very own business venture. Working as part of a small team and using your personal skills you’ll pitch for investments, try your hand as a Pension Fund Manager and review stocks and shares. Students take part in a range of challenges and national competitions putting their business acumen to the test, whilst interacting with a range of visiting speakers specifically tailored to your future career aspirations.

Who should follow the programme?

To access this elective, you will need to be studying either Business or Economics.

What activities can you expect to experience?

The list below is just some of the activities within the programme:

Attending Entrepreneur LIVE! A unique opportunity for you to listen to, engage with and pitch to some of the UK’s best entrepreneurs
Participation in the Young Enterprise project where you create your own business, raise the initial capital, design and sell a product or service and ultimately share out any profit and pay taxes.
Participation in the I Am Creative project which asks you to respond to a live creative brief from a global company with the top teams able to pitch direct to their Head of Marketing
Involvement in enterprise activities across college events
Links with a business mentor and attending entrepreneurship master classes
Participation in the Tenner Challenge, a nationwide competition to find the next generation of budding entrepreneurs
Visits to local businesses and visiting speakers building links through the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce
Supported activities to access potential funding and guidance from organisations which focus on supporting young entrepreneurs such as the Prince’s Trust.

What about trips and visits?

Entrepreneur LIVE!

You will develop the following employability skills:

Team work – negotiating and persuasion
Decision making
Communicate clearly through both verbal and written means
Demonstrate initiative, innovation and enterprise
Commercial acumen
Ability to be adaptable

What will this elective lead to after SJR?

All of the skills and knowledge gained from the programme will support students in their application to study a business related degree course at university. They will also support students who want to evidence their entrepreneurial skills to future employers and enable students to establish their own businesses in the future.

The Business department has an excellent record of student progression to Higher Education and last year our students entered university to study courses such as Business Management, Economics, Accounting & Finance and Business Management & Entrepreneurship.