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 Futures Assembly (JAN 2025)
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FIFTH FORM FIELD DAY: FUTURES (MAR 2024)
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
+ All pupils have access
- Works best by building up your profile, which can take 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.
+ Simple interface with well-summarised information
- Less detail
Prospects.ac.uk is the UK's biggest graduate careers website. Search for apprenticeships, graduate jobs, internships and postgraduate courses, and use to get careers advice written by specialists, as well as tools such as their career planner, which matches skills and interests with job profiles to suit you.
+ Detailed info regarding many career paths
- Aimed more at current university students, but still very useful for many explorations
UNIVERSITIES & APPRENTICESHIPS (POST-GCSE & A-LEVEL)
UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. It's the centralised service that students use to apply to university. 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.
Amazing Apprenticeships promotes the benefits of apprenticeships and technical education and works closely with the DfE. Offers wide range of knowledge, stories, advice and vacancy listings for current apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships. Their biannual Higher & Degree Listings can be very useful.
RateMyApprenticeship.co.uk is a useful 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.
