Gogglebox star among motivational speakers at Mansfield college's career event

Throughout the week there was a wealth of information available online, designed to prepare students for future employment.

Gogglebox star Baasit Siddiqui, who is also founder of Siddiqui Education which offers workshops to schools and colleges in the UK, produced a video for students to look into his career journey.

There was also a motivational session by inspirational speaker Richard McCann, whose life story has been well documented and parts of it are currently on Netflix.

He began life in poverty and spent time in foster care and a children’s home after his mother was murdered by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe in the 1970s.

Students were also able to log on to career profiling activities to see which jobs their skills were matched to – as well as watch videos from a range of people who are self-employed to discover their career journeys.

One of these was of Simon Smalley, of Small Animations, who was interviewed by the college’s design and media specialist, Tony Hall.

Simon, who is a 3D animation and LightWave specialist, has worked on films such as Star Wars and Gangs of London.

He gave students an insight into how he set up his company and described some of the projects he produces for clients such as television commercials and 3D animation.