Career planning

Key ideas to help you with advice and guidance for pupils

Identify future goals • It is not about deciding at the age of 16 what

you want to do for the rest of your life. It is about uncovering ever more possibilities and using robust planning, research and evaluation techniques to make these possibilities tangible and real.

• If knowledge is power, pupils who have ‘no idea’ what they want to do with their future are powerless and without support may have less reason to make the progress they need to climb the ladder.

Plan your ladder from the top downwards

• Step one : Look to the future and identify long term career goal

• Step two : Research university courses which can lead to that career

• Step three : Plan how you will achieve the first step of your ladder

Career

Post degree qualification

University course

A Level courses

Your Career as a Ladder

‘Unpack’ the requirements

–Attitudes–Qualifications

- Experiences

You need to show all these. You must give

evidence

–Competences –Skills–Ethos

Look for clues. What do they want?

Traffic light colour code how well you fit the requirements

• Red for ‘I have not made any progress with this yet ‘

• Orange for ‘I have identified this target but still some way to go ‘

• Green for ‘I have made good progress and completed this target’

Use SMART Targets to help you achieve