Careers and Enterprise Roadshows
Aims:
✓ Consider the latest careers education policy recommendations and how
these can be used to shape a careers guidance strategy.
✓ Hear from range of partners and employers who will provide insight and
ideas around free resources and activities to help to create strategies.
Outcomes:
✓Design the backbone for your whole school careers strategy
✓Consider how to use data and monitor the impact of your strategy
✓Collect ideas for activities to fit into your strategy mapped to current best
practice and education legislation
✓Ensure your plan makes the best use of your current and any new resources
✓Network and share good practice with colleagues from education
establishments near you, employers and key stakeholders in careers
education
‘Outstanding’ Careers Education
Looks like…
Does not look like…
What can we make of the recommendations and
research? (Quick wins)
✓Cover all year groups and deliver a ‘wide range of activities’
✓Inspiring programme that is personalised to your leaner needs and a curriculum
that focuses on the development of employability skills such as resilience
✓Strong links with and good use of employers as well as good use of LMI
✓Careers across the curriculum
✓Independent and Impartial Information, advice and guidance
✓Use of a careers guidance professional
✓Start with a strategy that involves a member of SLT, a governor and applies
joined up thinking, tracking and monitoring to the above
How do you approach it?
Just like any other curriculum - take into account:
✓Outcomes
✓Progression
✓Differentiation
✓Reflective practice
Today we will:
✓Decide on a clear whole school aim in line with your establishment’s context
✓Broken down into year group outcomes
✓Consider age and stage appropriate activities, in line with the agreed outcomes
that progress students through their careers journey
Keep in mind:
✓Essentially we need to enable students to make sense of a lot of information
personalised to their own unique situation
✓You can’t do any of this without inspiring them, making it fun and making it
relevant (for example using subject context or encounters with employers)
Getting started on your strategy
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Break it down.
To achieve your overall aim
what do you need to work
towards each year?
Make it learner friendly by
having a theme for the year.
What activities do
you already have in
place and how do
they help to meet the
year outcome?
Anything new to add
from today?
✓ What lessons do you
already deliver and
how do they help to
meet the year
outcome?
✓ Anything new from
today you can add?
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What are you trying to achieve / where do you want
your students to be?
Take into account: Your ethos and school aim, local
challenges and context
What do you need to cover
In other words: What do your learners need to do and
when?
• Recommendations are that schools have a careers guidance strategy in place that enables progression.
• Strategies should there be underpinned by careers education theory meaning learners will progress and
be prepared to make excellent decisions at key transitions.
Learner Journey Milestones: The theory - A brief overview
Primary to
Secondary
KS3 - 4
KS4 - 5
Post 18
Being prepared, by having the relevant skills,
experience, qualifications, motivation and so on,
in order to make the most of opportunities when
they come along.
Inspiration:
✓If you were to only tackle one outcome
in KS3 this would be it.
✓Capture learners’ imaginations in KS3
to motivate them about the future.
Inspiration and Self Awareness:
More of the Same:
✓ In addition students will need to
present themselves to employers
and sell their brand.
Visualisation of Jobs:
✓This can be virtual but real life
encounters are vital.
✓Involve KS3 learners in employer
engagement activities in a way that will
inspire them about their options.
✓Careers across the curriculum.
Career Development Skills:
✓ Students should think about how to
stand out from the crowd.
✓ They must be able to articulate their
achievements to future employers.
✓ Evidence their skills development
and take ownership of personal
development.
Self Awareness:
✓Vital at all Key Stages.
Simplifying Choices:
✓Knowing what job they want to do is not
the outcome of careers education.
✓Simplify choices to the next transition
students will make.
Simplifying Choices:
✓ Students might simplify their choices
by thinking about the subjects they
have already chosen also
considering how expected grades
might impact their future possible
options.
Inspiration and Self Awareness: More of the
Same:
✓ Students should now have greater capacity for
self awareness.
Career Development Skills:
✓ Students should become adept at identifying the
skills that different employers are likely to value.
✓ Look to take part in real life work experience,
seeking out opportunities to further inform their
thinking.
Simplify Choices:
✓ Subject choices and achievements at KS4
should be taken into account to help narrow the
field.
✓ Research the possible futures open to them
depending on the post 16 choices they have
already made and the post 18 choices they are
considering.
✓ They could think in terms of industries instead or
favourite subjects and choose post 18 options
that link to these.
Transition point
Activities and outcomes needed in the lead up to transition and to support
‘moments of choice’.
Overall and year group outcomes / themes
Overall
outcome
Consider what you want students to have achieved ‘to look like’ by the time
they leave you in Y11 / 13. Turn this into an overall aim.
Year Group Now consider year group aims / outcomes. Each year consider Self
Outcomes Awareness, Awareness of what’s out there and Career Development;
progressing students skills based on the theme each year.
Themes
If you feel it’s of use turn your outcomes into learner friendly themes and use
these to communicate your plan to staff, learners and parents.
Whole School and Year Group Aims / Themes
School Aim: Empower students to take responsibility for their future and achieve their aspirations.
Year 7: Breaking
the Mould…
Inspiring activities encouraging students that anything is possible and that widen aspirations /
encourage students to think outside the box.
Year 8: The World
of Work…
Students will explore the world of work in more detail. They will learn about industry sectors,
growth sectors, interesting jobs for the future. Meeting and networking / inspiration from a range
of employers is key.
This year students will consider what makes them unique and will develop their self awareness
Year 9: What Makes
skills. They will consider what their potential future might look like by exploring lots of interesting
Me Unique..?
and inspiring options with the aim of widening aspirations.
Year 10: Step Up
Stand Out…
Students will consider how to “stand out from the crowd” by learning how to match themselves
to jobs and how to write CVs / cover letters. They will develop their own personal brand and
consider how they could market themselves to employers.
Year 11: Next
Steps…
This year students will create an action plan for their post 16 journey focussing on acting upon
and achieving their dreams. Having a challenging, inspiring and realistic ‘exit plan’ related to
careers / education pathways and grades is paramount. All students have access to a full range
of independent, impartial careers and education options and will be guided through their
decision making process.
Year 12: Aiming
Higher…
All students will have a plan for when they leave ______________ Academy. They will have the
opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge through enrichment activities to support them
in their long term career aspirations. Focus on inspirational activities to ensure students fulfil
their potential post 18.
Focus on tailored experiences that ensure students know how to conduct themselves in a work
Year 13: Becoming
situation. Enable students not going to university to find an apprenticeship or other fulfilling
a Professional…
opportunity.
If you don’t measure it you can’t manage it
How can you be sure that the activities you plan and spend time and money on are effective and do
what you intended them to do?
Use data to:
✓Understand what’s influencing young peoples’ choices: Probably technology and social
media
✓Personalise your provision using aspiration data: Prioritise this! Measure aspiration data
and act on student voice and you will be strengthening every learner’s chance to make
successful transitions
✓Encourage reflective learning: Passport / exit plan / skills log
✓Encourage independent learning: Learner ownership of their plan
✓Joined up thinking: Keeping a record of all guidance interventions which all staff have
access to
✓Use Intended Destination Data: In the same way you would actual destination data but
while you can do something about it
✓Differentiate: Track targeted cohorts and ensure they are on track
Activity
Overall
outcome
Consider what you want students to have achieved ‘to look like’ by the time
they leave you in Y11 / 13. Turn this into an overall aim.
Year Group Now consider year group aims / outcomes. Each year consider Self
Outcomes Awareness, Awareness of what’s out there and Career Development;
progressing students skills based on the theme each year.
Themes
If you feel it’s of use turn your outcomes into learner friendly themes and use
these to communicate your plan to staff, learners and parents.
Employer Engagement: A Practical Guide
1) Contact employers with a purpose
✓Explain the specific challenges your students face.
✓Make sure employers know you value their input and that this opportunity will put them in touch with
their future workforce and give them a chance to inspire young people.
✓Group students into ‘talent pools’ and target employers based on learner interests.
2) Get students involved
✓Develop students’ professional conduct skills, their confidence and their labour market awareness.
This type of enrichment activity also looks great on a CV and will improve independent learning skills.
3) Practical stuff
✓Research any existing networks / partnerships of employers who may be willing to help you as a group
to save you time.
✓Use business language; for example invite employers to: ‘networking events’, ‘breakfast meetings’,
‘conferences’, to judge enterprise competitions ‘dragons den’ style.
✓Consider partnering with other schools to create your network.
✓Make it easy for employers by working with them to plan activities / events
✓Find out which larger organisations in your area have education programmes already set up.
✓Find out what else any employer you contact can help you with
Employer Engagement: A Practical Guide
4) Level of involvement and sustainability of the network
Sustainability of your network is important as is getting employers involved in the curriculum in a more
integrated way. Think long term, ask employers if they would be part of your network and work with
students / teachers in more interesting ways. Offer them ‘levels’ of involvement / create a package
structure for them to choose from.
Activities
Package 1
Attend events such as careers fairs / networking events
Willing to design a practical workshop so a group of students
interested in the industry can gain relevant skills
Happy to facilitate groups of interested students visiting the business
Will share advice with staff / students about the skills they are looking
for in their next generation of employees
Willing to plan events with teachers / inform the curriculum
5) Preparing for and getting the most out of employer engagement
✓Evaluate it and track aspirations
Package 2
Package 3
Speed Networking
Please use this last practical session to:
✓ Add any detail / specific activities to your plan based on the ideas
you’ve heard today
✓Our guest experts will move around the room and spend time with you
so please take the opportunity to discuss any topics of interest further and
ask questions
✓Be cheeky and ask for contact details / build a network - find out how we
can help you
Careers and Enterprise Roadshows
Aims:
✓ Consider the latest careers education policy recommendations and how
these can be used to shape a careers guidance strategy.
✓ Hear from range of partners and employers who will provide insight and
ideas around free resources and activities to help to create strategies.
Outcomes:
✓Design the backbone for your whole school careers strategy
✓Consider how to use data and monitor the impact of your strategy
✓Collect ideas for activities to fit into your strategy mapped to current best
practice and education legislation
✓Ensure your plan makes the best use of your current and any new resources
✓Network and share good practice with colleagues from education
establishments near you, employers and key stakeholders in careers
education