1. History GCSE
Edexcel

2. Why choose History? Do employers value history? Well do they?
How is History relevant?
Do employers value history?
Well do they?

3. Employers and universities value history very highly
Skills are very useful in work, study and life in general
You are taught to think and make up your mind

4. You can… Use information effectively
Help analyse problems that businesses and organisations face
Weigh conflicting factors before making critical decisions
Be analytical and critical when considering information

5. And……..
You will learn to understand human decisions and how they are made
Particularly why actions were taken in the past and how people might behave.
Essential for those important relationships with work colleagues
You will learn the art of debating
Expressing a clear opinion and supporting it with relevant information

6. You will be taught to think and make up your own mind!

7. Employers need: Independent thinkers Open-minded workers
Disciplined individuals
Problem solving skills
People able to pick out the essential from the trivial

8. Why?
The total number of history graduates rose by 65% from 3177 in 1989 to 5248 in By 2009, the total had reached 9800, an increase of nearly 87%.
54% in 1998 in employment, dropped to 47% during the 2011 recession but this was significantly less than all other subjects.
At this time 32% of graduates were pursuing some form of further education.

9. Occupations of those in employment
Marketing, Sales and Advertising Professionals: 6.5% Marketing Executive.
Commercial, Industrial and Public Sector Managers: 10.3% Management trainee.
Education Professionals: 4.0%: FE Lecturer
Business and Financial Professionals and Associate Professionals: 8.3% International Manager, Tax inspector: HMRC, Financial crimes Associate.
Information Technology Professionals: 1.0%: Web project officer, Political party Games tester, SEGA
Arts, Design, Culture and Sports Professionals: 3.7%: Editorial assistant, Gallery assistant
Social & Welfare Professionals: 3.2%:
Other professionals, Associate Professional and Technical Occupations: 3.9% Police Officer, Chef, Proofreader, Auctioneers assistant.
Retail, Catering, Waiting and Bar Staff 23.0%
Other Occupations 17.9%: Personal trainer

10. History Careers Architect City Financiers and Merchant Banks
Local architects, JSA, recommend History as an A Level to support the ability to write detailed and evaluative reports.
City Financiers and Merchant Banks
Prize History highly as a subject that enables employees and fund managers to converse with clients so that they can build an effective rapport with them

11. History Careers
Medical Schools like their prospective undergraduates and trainees to have studied a subject beyond the disciplines of Maths & Science to demonstrate their all round abilities. History of Politics is highly recommended

12. History Careers
The Foreign & Diplomatic Service of the UK Government often seek students who have studied History because this proves that they are able to synthesise lots of information and produce evaluative written responses.

13. Some successful Historians
Journalists & Writers
Dermot Murnaghan – Breakfast TV
Jeremy Bowen – BBC News Reporter
Alan Green – 5 Live Football commentator
Martin Tyler – Sky Sports commentator
Jeremy Warner – Business Editor, The Independent
Business
Lord John Sainsbury
Martha Lane-Fox – founder Lastminute.com
Patrick Gillam - ex CEO BP, Standard Chartered Bank
John Varley – Chairman, Barclays Bank
Helena Stride –Head of Education, IWM
Charles Miller – CEO, ICI
Entertainment
Louis Theroux
Chris Martin
The Chemical Brothers
Sting
Nicky Wire, The Manic Street Preachers
Sacha Baron Cohen

14. Units Crime & Punishment over time Tudor England The Cold War
Including a study of Jack the Ripper
Tudor England
Henry VIII or Elizabeth I
The Cold War
Relations between the USA and the USSR between 1945 and 1991
Germany
The effects of WW1
The rise of the Nazi Party
Hitler

15. Future businesses need
people who have studied History because they are able to think for themselves and do not need to be taught how to analyse information.