Someone Like You – The Importance of Career Role Models
Chris Webb explores where our career role models come from, why they matter and how they are sometimes much closer [...]
Students’ wellbeing and the importance of avoiding stress/burnout
Students at school will need to recognise and cope with stress in order to get through their exams, look for [...]
Career guidance for young people with SEND: Some pointers for good practice
Despite what the title might suggest, this article is not aimed solely at careers leaders and careers advisers working in [...]
Ho, ho, ho. Happy Christmas – Give yourself the gift of working with your feeder schools
Christmas is on the horizon, you’ve still got to find a present for Aunt Mable and Uncle Ola and you’re [...]
What’s it like to be a Careers Leader?
The role of the careers leader is fundamental to ensuring that young people have the opportunities to experience the world [...]
A brief guide to the Updated Statutory Guidance for Careers 2021
Most Indigo readers will be aware that the Government’s influential Careers Strategy expired in December 2020. While we await confirmation [...]
Engaging with local businesses and employers
Maintaining great careers provision in a secondary school takes time, courage and a lot of networking. Anna Hall, Assistant Headteacher [...]
Evaluating and developing your careers programme
Evaluation involves thinking about what you have done, whether it has gone well and what you might do differently in [...]
The positives from a difficult year
Well, that was the year that was… Here we are coasting down (hopefully) towards the end of the year and [...]
Engaging students and their parents
One of my top tips for gaining and maintaining the Quality in Careers Standard is getting parents onboard. However, it [...]