Support students to make a successful transition

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The Future Skills Questionnaire is a tool to measure learners’ career-readiness. FSQ covers key aspects of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are important for successful transitions. Simple data insight can support you to make targeted interventions.

Use FSQ to identify areas for development at both cohort and individual learner-level.

Example FSQ questions, include: 

• Do you know about different types of recruitment and selection processes, including interviews and assessment centres?
• Do you know how to make a good impression when applying for a course or job?
• Do you feel confident talking about your skills in an interview? 

Learner’s responses to these questions can support you to identify those who may need additional support, or which areas of transition skills you may need to focus on developing across an entire year group. 

Establish a process for delivering FSQ annually to help identify gaps in learners career knowledge and skills

There are five versions of the questionnaire, allowing you to assess the skills and knowledge of your learners at specific points of transition.
Each questionnaire type is only available to the year groups as specified below with the exception of the SEND version, which is available to all year groups.  

• Starting Secondary (Year 7) - set a baseline for knowledge at the start of secondary school.
• Transition from KS3 (Years 8 and 9) - encourage learners to reflect on strengths and preferences, to make the connection between GSCE subjects and careers and to flag those who need further IAG.
• GCSE Years (Years 10 and 11) – support Post-16 transition plans, identify those with and without an appropriate pathway and gauge understanding of selection/recruitment processes.
• Post-16 Study (Years 12 and 13) - support learners to make positive Post-18 transitions. 

Supporting learners to make effective transitions through a progressive careers programme 

Access our resources and support to allow you to build a progressive careers programme that prepare young people to develop the relevant knowledge, skills and ability to make effective transitions into their next best step: 

• ‘Building a progressive careers programme’ resource and CPD which are designed to support you to build a progressive careers programme with reference to key frameworks such as the CDI Career Development Framework and The Skills Builder Universal Framework.
• Securing Good Transitions: A resource pack to support the next steps of Key Stage 4 learners with SEND.
• Funded Careers Leader training, to help Careers Leaders understand their role and develop the skills required to strategically embed a careers programme in their setting.