Resources for Careers Leaders
Careers Leaders are responsible and accountable for the planning, delivery and impact measurement of their school, special school or college’s strategic careers plan and progressive careers programme.
It’s a key role that involves aligning careers provision to the strategic priorities of the school, special school or college and overseeing work towards meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks in a meaningful way for young people.
The Careers Leader needs to be someone who can:
- Take responsibility for continuous improvement of the strategic careers plan and the progressive careers programme, which should be planned and implemented to ensure positive outcomes for young people
- Coordinate and manage the various elements of the careers programme informed by a strategic careers plan aligned to school, special school or college priorities
- Liaise with external partners, such as employers, learning providers and career guidance services
- Pay careful attention to feedback from all stakeholders and to the destinations of pupils
Developed with you in mind, we’ve made it easy to quickly find the trusted, high quality resources you need to make a difference. We’ve identified, and regularly update, key resources that can directly support you as you plan, implement and measure the impact of your strategic careers plan and progressive careers programme and as you work towards achieving the Gatsby Benchmarks.
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Amazing Apprenticeships: Apprenticeship Guidance benchmark tool
Amazing Apprenticeships has created this tool to help schools and other educational establishments to work through a series of questions to assess where they are in their planning and provision of apprenticeship information
Amazing Apprenticeships: Guess the Employer (Quiz)
Amazing Apprenticeships has created a quiz to challenge the individual’s knowledge of apprenticeship employers. The quiz helps individuals to find out more about apprenticeship schemes from some of the country’s top apprenticeship employers, providing more insight and encouraging self-research
Amazing Apprenticeships: Senior Leadership Team Guide
Amazing apprenticeships has created a guide for Senior Leadership Teams for developing a whole school approach to apprenticeships
Amazing Apprenticeships: What is a traineeship? (Quiz)
Amazing Apprenticeships has created an ‘What is a traineeship?’ fun and informative 10 question quiz to test the knowledge of individuals to see how much they know about traineeships!
Amazing Apprenticeships: What is an apprenticeship? (Quiz)
Amazing Apprenticeships has created ‘What is an apprenticeship?’, a fun and informative 10 question quiz to test the knowledge of individuals to see how much they know about apprenticeships!
Annual review checklist
As a Careers Leader, you can use this revised checklist as an annual review of provision to support your planning for the following year.
CDI quality assurance of career development interventions
This framework will help career development professionals to quality assure their career development interventions and determine any areas that may require development.
CEIAG cross curricular audit – Black Country
This resource, developed by the Black Country Skills Factory, helps Careers Leaders identify whether or not careers are embedded within curriculum subject areas.
Compass support prompt questions
Feel confident that your interpretation of the eight Gatsby Benchmarks aligns with that of other schools across the country by using this handy set of prompt questions.
Compass+
With our free Compass+ tool you can benchmark, manage, track and report on your school's careers provision at individual student level.
Cornwall Hub BM1 resource
This newsletter, developed by the team at our Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Hub, includes lots of useful templates and examples to support all areas of Gatsby Benchmark 1.
Destination Data analysis example
Developed by the Career Leader at Bedford Academy this resource is an example of how destination data can be analysed and used to inform future provision