Careers Advice
The Careers Team at School will:
- Help you to learn about: different careers, post-16 routes, college and apprenticeship options, how to apply, entry requirements.
- Provide a range of learning opportunities where you can engage with different employees/employers and higher education providers.
- Teach you about careers through activities within the school curriculum.
- Provide you with independent careers advice from a careers advisor.
What GCSEs should I take?
No idea what you want to do after your GCSEs? Don’t worry! Choose a mix of GCSE subjects to give yourself as many different options as possible.
You can also use these links on Career Pilot to help as well:
- If you like one of your GCSE subjects and are looking for ideas of what careers or courses it could lead onto – go to start with a subject.
- Do the Skills Profile and find out what skills you have.
- Got an idea of a job or job sector you think might suit you then check out the job profiles in the job sectors.
If you do know what you want to do… Some careers, such as architecture, vet, working with languages etc. may require specific degree courses. The job profiles in the job sectors has details of all the entry requirements for these jobs.
In this case work backwards - to get into these degree courses you may need specific A levels/Level 3 qualifications, and to do these you may need certain GCSE subjects and grades.
Want to write a winning CV?
https://barclayslifeskills.com/i-want-help-applying-for-jobs/school/cv-builder/
Not going to Uni - the one stop site for apprenticeships, gap years, distance learning and jobs:
https://www.notgoingtouni.co.uk/
Free courses - for soft and employability skills and guidance on improving these skills:
National Careers Service - The National Careers Service provides information, advice and guidance to help people make decisions on learning, training and work opportunities. The service offers confidential and impartial advice delivered by qualified careers advisers:
https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/
Thames Valley Berkshire Skills Priority Statement 2020 - Thames Valley Berkshire LEP's annual skills report provides a comprehensive analysis of the supply of, and demand for, skills in Berkshire.
https://www.tvbintelligence.co.uk/people
The Local Offer for SEND young people in Wokingham