FIFTH FORM FUTURES
Check out these resources to enhance your career understanding and development. Research is crucial ahead of big decisions. Use when planning your GCSE, A-Level, post-Dean Close choices.
FIFTH FORM FIELD DAY: FUTURES (MAR 2024)
Fifth Form Futures Assembly II (JAN 2024)
Fifth Form Futures Assembly I (Nov 2023)
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CAREERS EXPLORATION: KEY SITES
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A universal destinations platform that brings all the available information into one single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps young people to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications.
+ Lots of info & great range of tools
- Works best by building up your profile, which takes time.
Subscription only. Available in the Fifth Form.
Morrisby.com provides up-to-date career information, requirements and routes to careers, as well as assessments and customisable results to plan future choices.
+ Huge customisable range of info on occupations with links to university courses
+ Life-time membership
- Subscription only
The government’s National Career Service offers free and impartial information, advice and guidance to help you with your decisions about careers, courses and work.
+ Lots of detail
- Quite text heavy and a bit drab
As its name suggest, UCAS - Explore jobs allows you to explore different jobs and pathways to your career: by job family, by subject, or by skill-set. (UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. It's the centralised service that students use to apply to university.)
+ Simple interface with well-summarised information
- Less detail (e.g. no salary or labour market info)
For FOURTH FORM & UP
Careersbox.co.uk is the national careers film library, a free careers resource showing hundreds of real people doing real jobs.
+ Lots of video resources
- Not much extra detail.
iCould.com provides 1000 personal video stories, detailed job information, plus practical tips, insight and advice. Take the Buzz Quiz to find out which jobs may suit you.
+ Attractive graphical layout
+ Lots of video resources
+ Buzz Quiz to get you started
- Less detail
UNIVERSITIES & APPRENTICESHIPS (POST-GCSE & A-LEVEL)
UCAS.com is the standard portal for university and apprenticeship applications. It is a great resource for exploring options after GCSE and A-levels and, if applying through UCAS, the place to create, submit, and track your application.
RateMyApprenticeship.co.uk is a key hub for exploring apprenticeships at all levels. It offers information, advice, and guidance on securing the best apprenticeships available to students post-GCSE and post-A-level.
