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 [...]
The emotional content of career guidance
Career guidance has for a number of years been firmly established as a ‘learning’ activity rather than as ‘therapy’. Well [...]
Supporting students applying for scholarships
With a reputation of being hard to find and highly competitive, it would be easy to ignore scholarships as a [...]
How to gain and maintain the Quality in Careers Standard
As with many things in schools, gaining the Quality in Careers Standard takes a lot of work, but I would [...]
Whose CPD is a careers leader responsible for?
Careers leaders in most schools will probably have at most one or two colleagues who they line manage: the careers [...]
Helping your students with LMI in the context of Covid-19
Fulfilling Gatsby Benchmark 2 in schools and colleges can be challenging at the best of times. Labour market information (LMI) [...]
Using the impetus of National Careers Week to help build your careers team
It’s almost impossible for me to credit that National Careers Week (NCW) will be 10 this year. I got involved [...]