Employer engagement

This framework will help career development professionals to quality assure their career development interventions and determine any areas that may require development.

CareerEar is an online careers advice and exploration platform and the first of its kind to combine direct and personal advice, with relevant labour market data, in order to help people make the most informed decisions.

To support Careers Leaders with impact evaluation, we have created a guidance document on ‘How to write your own survey questions’. 

Compass is a free digital product that helps you quickly and easily evaluate your careers provision against the eight Gatsby Benchmarks. 

Compass is available to secondary schools, special schools, sixth forms, colleges, PRU’s and ITPs in England.

A free comprehensive online careers system that uniquely provides students, teachers and advisors with all that they need. Based upon a personal profile quiz that uses only graphic images, it is now widely used in UK schools.

Developed by Solihull Careers Hub. This resource is parent’s/carer’s simple guide to education, training and employment pathways for those with SEND.

Developed by Solihull Careers Hub. This is a parent/carer’s simple guide to education, training and employment pathways.

A SEND pupil centred planning tool specifically geared to employment and to support quality transitions.

Talentino programmes have been helping to improve career outcomes for young people with a range of learning difficulties in a mixture of settings – special schools, mainstream schools, AP, PRU, SEMH, etc.

They also provide great opportunities for learning more, through their regular newsletters, annual SEND Careers Conference, and by publishing free resources.

The National Careers Service provides high quality, free and impartial careers advice, information and guidance. The service is available all year round to anyone aged 13+ no matter what stage of the careers journey they are at.

These lessons explore what it means to be an effective leader, how to create an impactful CV and recognise and demonstrate employability skills. The week is completed with some reflection – what could be your next steps and how to prepare for discussions with a careers adviser.
 

Developed by The Leeds Trinity University.

The Inspire Programme provides activities and resources to support teachers and advisers in working towards the Gatsby benchmarks. This programme of presentations, workshops and activities is designed to inspire students to progress and succeed in higher education.