These carefully curated resources are aimed at various stakeholders to help bring together the worlds of education and employment – and to ensure adherence to the Gatsby Benchmarks. Many have been developed by employers themselves. Simply filter the resources below to get started.
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What’s your strength?® - Let’s get started!
An interactive card activity made in collaboration with Skills Builder, Let’s get started! empowers young people to discover their own skills and qualities and realise how amazing they are!
This is a costed resource.
Get Ahead and Disabled Apprentice Network
Get Ahead is a toolkit and resource co-produced with and for disabled young people. The newsletters and magazines will help you navigate the wide range of information and resources that are available in post-16 education, training, and work. It is a platform where young people can have their voice heard and share the many talents they have.
Gatsby Benchmark toolkit – SEND
If you are working to deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks for young people with SEND – in any setting – you will find lots of practical help in this toolkit.
Gatsby Benchmark toolkit – colleges
Identify what ‘good’ looks like across all eight Gatsby Benchmarks, see useful case studies, and follow practical suggestions for putting the benchmarks into practice.
Designated Teacher E-Booklet
Developed in partnership by Worcestershire Virtual School and the Inspiring Worcestershire Delivery Team.
This reference resource will support the network of Designated Teachers to understand the national and local careers landscape.
Aspire: Information and advice to help post-16 students understand their university, further education and career options
Launched by the social mobility charity upReach, Aspire was created to encourage state school students all over the UK to aim high and broaden their career horizons. Aimed at Year 12 and 13 students, these resources provide detailed information about a wide range of career options that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds may have limited exposure to through existing networks.
BeReady free online learning platform
Access easily digestible content online that’s designed to build up your students’ CVs via a host of interactive videos, animations, quizzes and more.
What’s your strength?® cards - teen pack
Award winning self-awareness tool that empowers young people to discover their own skills and qualities and realise how amazing they are!
This is a costed resource.
What’s your strength?® - Free Downloads
Careers Adviser, Katherine Jennick, the creator of the award winning What’s your strength?® cards, has developed a number of strength-based tools which are free to download.
The Skills Suitcase
This resource is designed to help students identify their own skills – as well as the areas where they might need further development – and encourage reflection in a fun and engaging way.
Passport to Hospitality
Developed by Inspiring Worcestershire.
Passport to Hospitality has been designed with the student’s progression at the forefront. This brilliant project will take students on a tour around the Hospitality industry, learning about not only what services are classed as hospitality, it's history but what careers and entry level roles are available within the sector.
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Use this content-rich website to inform and inspire young people’s career choices – featuring over 1,000 videos of real people talking about their careers.