Employer engagement

Where do you start when designing the careers element of your website? Follow this step-by-step guide to make sure you cover all the necessary elements.

Ensure your website is up to scratch, following best practice guidelines, and ready for audit with this helpful template – designed by the Growth Platform Liverpool.

The government's Careers Strategy means that all schools and colleges should have a named Careers Leader in place by September 2018. This guide for secondary schools explains the role and how it can work in your institution. 

The government's Careers Strategy means that all schools and colleges should have a named Careers Leader in place by September 2018. This guide for colleges explains what careers leadership in colleges looks like and how it could be led and managed within your college. 

The ADHD Foundation is the UK’s leading neurodiversity charity, offering a strength-based, lifespan service for the 1 in 5 of us who live with ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia and Tourette’s syndrome. 

Triage in a careers setting is using information about young person’s career requirements and decisions to decide what support that young person requires and who the best person is to give that support.

This resource is designed to support Careers Leaders and other staff involved in the transition process from Key Stage 2 into Key Stage 3, exploring opportunities to embed careers activities and parental engagement across the full range of transition opportunities.

It takes you through the three phases:

1. Decision making (Y4,5,6) while children and parents /carers are still considering their options
2. Decision made (Y6) once the children have been allocated their secondary school
3. Started (Y7) once the children have started their secondary school.

Booklet detailing the steps a parent/carer should take from Year 9 of a young person's school career to ensure their transition when leaving school is as smooth as possible, plus information on the possible next placements.

Top Tips from AET on creating an online work experience programme.

Create your own three-year data collection plan by using this example timeline. Gain ideas to shape your own plan while supporting the benchmark requirements.

All pupils should have the same opportunities for meaningful provider encounters and the overwhelming majority of pupils with SEND, including those with high levels of needs, can access fulfilling jobs and careers with the right preparation and support.

However, where learners future pathways are limited due to the nature of their specific learning needs and/or physical ability - for example where they are highly likely to proceed into adult social care - it is recognised that it may be necessary for additional flexibility in how these encounters are delivered.

The Parents’ Guide to provides parents with the information they need to help their teenage children make the right choices to create successful futures after GCSE and sixth form. We provide schools and colleges with a range of resources designed to support your parents/carers with relevant, unbiased and up-to-date guidance.