TODAY, Robbie Savage hangs up his ‘Strictly’ dancing shoes to join The Apprentice star and West Ham Vice Chairman Karren Brady in leading a ‘Dream Team’ of eleven high profile football experts to launch npower’s What’s Your Goal? 2012.

What’s Your Goal is a nationwide work experience scheme designed to inspire young people to explore the vast and varied careers found in our national sport.

Working in partnership with The Football League Trust, npower is seeking to support young people’s employment opportunities for the future, by showcasing the wide range of job opportunities available within football and demonstrating that you don’t have to be the star player on the field to make your mark within the industry.

What’s Your Goal? 2012 will see npower work with all 72 clubs in The Football League to offer over 300 valuable work experience placements to school children in Years 10 – 11 in their local areas.

In addition to these exciting placements, npower is also offering the nation’s young people the chance to win the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a day being mentored by the WYG ‘Dream Team’. Children in Years 7 – 11 are invited to apply for the chance to gain first-hand experience of working life by spending time with high profile experts such as Karren Brady and Robbie Savage and trying out their coverted jobs for themselves!

Having proved their worth after submitting a CV and video evidence demonstrating their enthusiam, 11 young people will be chosen to take on roles such as, being a pundit with Robbie Savage at the npower Championship Play Offs; helping Karren Brady make boardroom decisions at West Ham and putting a team of professional players through their paces working as first team coach with Paul Trollope at Birmingham City Football Club.

Footballing titans such as Sir John Majejski, owner of Reading FC, Malky McKay, manager of Cardiff City FC and Sasa Ihringova, The Football League’s most senior female referee, have also come on board to offer their time to support the initiative.

Making up the rest of the Dream Team is Liam Sweeting, match analyst at Blackpool FC; Paul Redman, TV producer for The Football League Show; Paul Trollope, first team coach at Birmingham City FC; John Sibley, match photographer; Claire Tomlinson, TV presenter for Sky Sports and Simon Boynton, website publisher at Digital Sports Group.

To enter, students are asked to fill out a job application, downloadable at www.npower.com/whatsyourgoal.