Careers
As a school we are firmly committed to providing timely and effective careers information, advice and guidance to help students make sensible and appropriate decisions to help choose the correct pathway for them.
We have a comprehensive in-school offer that we refine each year, the range of opportunities we provide includes:
- Lessons & workshops
- An extensive PSHE programme
- Guest Speaker talks
- and 'Life-Ready' sessions
We also recognise that it is important to have opportunities to access impartial on-line resources to help our students to develop their aspirations, reflect and evaluate their own goals and use information obtained to help make decisions about possible options and career paths.
More Information
For enquiries relating to careers please contact Ms Howat:
Career Resources
Xello
The Xello platform is our main onlie resource for students, use Xello to explore the numerous pathways available to you. You can explore routes that include further education, higher education, and apprenticeships.
To access this, students use their school email address and network password.
Login details:
Student username: School email address
Student password: Your school network login password
This catalogue has been created for teachers and careers staff, to guide them through our range of informative and inspirational resources on apprenticeships, traineeships, T Levels and other vocational pathways.
Kudos
Kudos is packed with information on what employers are looking for, what you can earn and what qualifications you’ll need to reach your career destination.
Careersbox
Careersbox is the national careers film library, a free careers resource showing hundreds of real people doing real jobs. The site has videos from a fantastic array of job sectors including many that you may not have considered or perhaps even heard about.
U-Explore
Is an excellent portal linked to the free careers site Startprofile. Through their continually growing employer connections, you can access regularly updated labour market information to explore a range of industry sectors to widen aspirations about future careers and consider your suitability based on your characteristics.
As well as finding out about subjects and how they link to careers you can explore jobs by the sector they are in, get advice on how to complete your CV, how to write applications and explore a wealth of interview tips and techniques.
Success at School
The site includes lots of helpful information in the advice section on employability skills, work experience, apprenticeships, university and different career paths.
The website also hosts a popular 60 second interview feature with real-life interview, a comprehensive careers zone with careers grouped into sectors.
Fast Forward Your Career
Another great careers site that asks you lots of questions to refine your career interests then the site makes suggestions for you based on your answers. Alongside the suggestions fast forward your career also provides you with labour market information to show you salaries and opportunities near you.
National Careers Service
The National Careers Service provides information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work opportunities. The service offers confidential, helpful and impartial advice, supported by qualified careers advisers.
Informed Choices
It aims to help you make informed choices about the subjects you study in order to continue with the degree of your choice.
icould
The site aims to help draw links between school subjects and jobs through video interviews. Each video is matched with hard data – such as salary, qualifications and future employment combining first-hand insight with practical next steps.
How2Become
How2Become is the UK’s leading careers and educational information and development website. From here, you can learn how to write a CV, how to complete an application form, how to pass psychometric tests and also how to pass any job interview.