Edinburgh College Employability Hackthon- working lunch

Edinburgh College is inviting you to help support students engaging in an employability hackathon on the 19th April.

It will take 1 hour of your time for a working lunch, lunch is provided, and we would ask that a small group of students can speak to you informally along with other employers about the challenges employers face with regards finding new staff and recruits. The focus is specifically on finding employees with IT and digital skills.

The hackathon is a two day event where students facilitated by Scottish Institute for Enterprise and Software Development Company PDMS are working towards creating an all-encompassing employability portal where employers and job seekers can find each other for employment, internships, placements, work experience and apprenticeships. The idea behind the hackathon is to iron out and address the barriers which currently hinder a lot of this activity from happening.

It will be held at our Sighthill campus on 19th April in our Enterprise suite. It will be a working lunch at either 12:00 or 13:00. We would be very grateful if you would be able to take part, and if so could you please book a free Eventbrite ticket so we can track attendees.