Online Careers Information and Advice
Discovering and exploring different careers
Scroll down to the job profiles, which contain detailed information including work activities, working hours and conditions, skills, interests and qualities, income and entry requirements for nearly 800 jobs.
Explore career zones and find out about different jobs and how to get there.
The Big Bang Fair contains information about the people in different crews who work together to undertake engineering and science jobs; from construction crew to space crew and many in-between. Click on a crew to find out more about some of the different job roles and useful links.
Option choices in Year 8
Option choices in Year 8
See the National Careers Service link in the drop down box above.
The Buzz Quiz can be completed in minutes and gives an indication of personality and possible job sectors, based on answers given. Students can click on job sectors to find out more about the jobs within them.
Click on your favourite subject(s) and watch career videos of people who use that subject in their job.
Work experience and voluntary work
Students in Year 12 undertake programmes that allow them to encounter the work of work, but students in other years may also wish to expand their experiences of the world of work. Please note that some opportunities on the Student Ladder website are aimed at undergraduates.
Post-16 and post-18 choices
Post-16 and 18 choices are supported in school during form time and through a range of careers activities. For additional resources, see:
- UCAS: What are my options after GCSE?
- Success at School: What are A Levels? and more...
- Russell Group tool for post-16 education choices
- Sutton Apprenticeship Schemes
- Get In Go Far - Apprenticeship Information
- Six Things you need to know before making your final A Level choices
- UCAS - What are my options after A Level?
- Which? University A Level Explorer: see where your A Level subjects might take you
- UCAS - A search tool for degree courses
- Career Finder - a search facility for alternatives to full time study
Information for parents/carers
All of the above information as well as: