- Get the Jump – Whether you know where you’re heading or not, knowing about the different routes open to you is a great place to start. Explore all of your education and training choices here!
- Skillsometer can help you discover what jobs you might like to do in the future. You will be presented with a series of statements. Select the emoji that shows how you feel about each statement. You will be given suggestions of jobs linked to what you most enjoy doing.
- Apprenticeships
- gov.uk/apprenticeships – The government’s official website where you will see apprenticeships advertised. You will need to register and create a profile and apply for apprenticeships online.
- Apprenticeship Guide – A user friendly site that gives information about Apprenticeships and a search feature.
- PM Training – PM Training are the largest Apprenticeship provider in the area.
- Equality Training – Another Apprenticeships provider, focusing on Learning, Childcare, Beauty and Hair.
- National Apprenticeship Service – Apprenticeships is useful for researching vocational career pathways and searching and applying for vacancies
- Find an Apprenticeship – Search and apply for apprenticeships in England
- Amazing Apprenticeships – Useful resources from films/webinars to application advice
- Get My First Job – Search and apply for apprenticeships
- All About School Leavers – Apprenticeship and work information
- Future Talent – Apprenticeship and work information
- Not Going to Uni-Explore apprenticeships and other possible alternatives including Gap Year options
- Student Ladder – Information on school leaver programmes, work placements and application advice
- Rate My Apprenticeship -Explore options, search for opportunities and read apprenticeship reviews
- UCAS Career Finder – Sign up for job alerts and search for Post-18 work and training opportunities
- Careers
- How2Become – The UK’s Leading Careers Specialists, who help you pass your career selection process the easy way. Lots of online resources and information from experts in their professions.
- Adzuna – Great job search and comparison site.
- All About Careers – An information website for young people aged 16-24 with detailed information across 24 industry sectors.
- Brightside – The Bright Knowledge Bank has lots of useful articles about Career Pathways, as well as practical advice and information about work experience.
- NHS England – The UK’s Largest Employer. Work experience, apprenticeships and jobs within the NHS are listed on here.
- Degree related NHS Careers.
- The National Careers service – Great for job profiles and researching careers.
- Icould – Careers videos, articles and a five minute career quiz.
- Information about careers relating to your degree.
- Medical Projects
- The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers
- Success at School – Includes useful information about work experience, employability skills and vocational skills
- Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers. It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation.
Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.
- Job hunting
- Universal Jobmatch – The national free job search site. You will need to create a profile for Universal Jobmatch.
- Reed The largest recruitment agency and independent job search site
- TotalJobs – Another popular job search website
- Monster – Another popular job search website
- Indeed – A job search comparison site, it searches a number of websites for you.
- Linkedin – The world’s largest professional social media site, great for networking, it also has a job search feature.
- Find a job – Search and apply for full-time and part-time jobs in Great Britain
- Agency Central: Useful for finding a recruitment agency in the local area and those specialising in specific sectors.
- Volunteering / gap year
- National Citizens Service – Community schemes for students to join over the summer.
- Do-it – The largest volunteering site, it helps to find a good volunteering opportunity to improve your CV.
- vInspired
- The Year in Industry
- Gap Year – Online and printed directory of Gap Year organisations and opportunities
- Year Out Group – Explore volunteering, culture, languages, expeditions, courses and work placements at home and abroad
- Gapforce – Includes useful advice on taking a gap year and the benefits of volunteering abroad
