Fly Higher In Business Function

27 October 2010 NZICA National Office was buzzing last week with over 100 secondary school students along with their parents and teachers attended Fly Higher.

 As many of you will know, the Wellington Branch team along with local members have visited and been in contact with over 20 schools in the past few months. The main motivation was to break down the stereotypes surrounding accountancy and NZICA.

 The Wellington Branch would like to thank in particular the numerous branch members who gave up their precious free time to visit the various schools and help inspire students. They were so inspirational that the numbers attending last week far exceeded expectations. Thank you.

Thanks also to Gaylene Hughes our motivational speaker and MC, Therese Walsh COO Rugby World Cup 2011, Tim Watts Director of Grad Connections, Felicity Hill Manager BDO, Neha Girotra Marketing Executive for Youth NZICA and Roderick Keating Communications and Events Coordinator Wellington Branch.

 During the course of the evening the panel asked students question and those who answered correctly walked away with Telecom Vouchers and very broad smiles. We can measure the success of the event not only in numbers attending but more importantly by the number of questions students, parents and teachers asked and there were plenty!

The whole premise behind this programme was to give those students who were either inspired by the speakers at their school or who have already identified Accountancy as a career choice the chance to meet and mingle with some of Wellingtons top Chartered Accountants and High Flyers in business. Importantly the students can discuss career opportunities with our guest speakers and get answers to the questions they’ve always wanted to ask. A great success towards NZICA’s growing youth engagement initiative.

To succeed... You have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes reality - Anita Roddick