Kensey Foods is a very big
manufacturing site here in Launceston
we employ approximately 700 people,
permanent people and about 200
we have about 200 temporary staff that join us each week as well
we manufacture desserts so most of the chilled desserts that you see in supermarkets, the own label
products may well have been made by us at Kensey Foods.  I head up the HR team we've got
a big people team here because we're not
a centralised function, so there's about
9 of us all together that look after
the HR for the site.  In a previous
industry I've done quite a lot of work
around the connection between schools
and Industry, so the enterprise role was
an opportunity to do that a bit more
formally.
I'm matched with Saltash School and I'm
working with Emma Gugh who's the Careers Lead.  We worked with year nines last year
and I actually went into lessons.  I did
it for about 2 weeks and the year
9's there were just about to do their
work experience, so from an employer
angle I was able to really interact with
the kids and talk to them about what to
expect when they did work experience.
From an employer's view, what it's like
to have a young person come into your
business and do work experience and they
were able to ask me questions around
what it's like in a work environment
what can I expect and actually
day-to-day what's it like being an
employer.  So it it gave them that other
angle as well to be able to sort of
prepare them for the work experience.  I
can see that their schools are doing a
lot more to enable kids to be work-ready. It's let me see actually how
interested even from year 7 children are
around what's out there and what
opportunities they'll be after school
life, so I think the biggest gain for
me is the understanding that things have
really moved on and it's not,
it's far more open than it used to be.
