Activity: 

• ½ termly meeting with KMK GM MC
• Termly review and development of the Careers plan
• Engagement with area CEIAG network on a termly basis
• Regular updated to the school leadership team.
• Middle leader briefings and updates
• Subject leader curriculum annual audits
• Heads of Year  CEIAG annual audits
• Gaps identified in and links to performance in GB audited termly
• Whole staff training on BECBC by BECBC with sharing of good practice across school by INSPIRA
• KMK interview by National STEM centre for online training course for Science teachers and schools careers leaders as an example of best practice.
• Unifrog training in place and roll out fror staff and pupils

It is hard to evaluate the success of any careers programme however we use 3 methods:

• Published data: The Department for Education publishes a range of data on pupil destinations at 16 and 18 and we compare our school with others in west Cumbria and all schools in England.
• Compass Tool: We are using the Compass Analysis tool to measure the progress of our careers education against the Gatsby Benchmarks.
• Evaluating activities: We try to evaluate the success of each activity by asking our students for feedback on the impact of the activity. In some cases we try and see what the longer term, rather than just the immediate, impact is.

Careers Education is an integral part of our curriculum and tutor periods. St Benedict’s has the support of Inspira for independent careers advice and provides careers education and opportunities for all students.

We try to expose the students to a wide range of career/study pathways in as many ways as possible from school delivered sessions, external providers and external visits and nationally recognised programmes. By developing a cohesive programme of CEIAG from primary onwards we can form young people with employability skills, academic qualifications and the confidence to make informed choices about their future.

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PREPARING FOR AN INTERVIEW: See the documents below for some useful tips on preparing for interviews, both online & in person. Preparing for an online interview Preparing to answer questions in an interview YOUR CV: Use the CV builder on UNIFROG and get advice on how to ace your CV in the know how library TO FIND INFORMATION ON HOW CAREERS WORK FOLLOW THE LINK HERE icould gives you the inside story of how careers work. The icould storytellers relate, in their own words, their real life career journeys. There are over a thousand easy to search, varied and unique career videos as well as hundreds of written articles. From telecoms engineers to police officers, from landscape gardeners to web designers, from engine drivers to zookeepers; they talk about what they do, what it’s like, how they came to be where they are and their hopes for the future. TO FIND CAREERS THAT WILL SUIT YOU CLICK  HERE or HERE or HERE You can also log into UNIFROG and filter careers by the subjects you enjoy. Don’t forget to save your favourites. NOT GOING TO UNIVERSITY FOLLOW THE LINK HERE Don’t know what to do? Want help with careers? Then visit this website to find information about alternatives to university, including jobs, training and apprenticeships. NEED FURTHER ADVICE? CLICK HERE

CAREEROMETER (LMI For All)

The LMI for All project provides a tool can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations to support the process of identifying potential careers. This tool helps you to compare national average wages and working hours for up to three occupations. Try typing in a job that you’d like to investigate and then select a match from the list to see the data You can then include a second and third choice to view the comparison if required Be aware that this is national average data, but you can use it to help you get a bigger picture of the potential opportunities on offer when used in conjunction with our own Industry, Sector, Job Role and Organisation profiles here on icanbea… The Careerometer widget provides access to a selection of headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects. The data are organised by 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.